Alternatives to Autodesk 3ds Max for all platforms with Open Source License

Blender

Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing...
- It's free and there is a lot of information available on the internet to learn it. mediaholdings • Jul 2019
- the most powerful, actively developing cdcsdces • May 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- it is free, very powerful. lots of tutorials, lots of render engines, active development. zakirshikhli • Jan 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It is really powerfull. It is only a 100 MB file (3ds Max is 1+ GB file). It really really requires low resources from a modest PC. Its is free! Guest • Jun 2017 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Multi purpose, great for modeling, animation and it's getting better on UVs. Cool community and careful developers bilaldjaghout • May 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It is free, its video editor is very easy to use, besides that with each update improves enormously and does not occupy much disk space like others. Guest • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Blender is free but is hard to use Guest • Jan 2017
- Free and very powerful alternative to any 3D program. Guest • May 2016 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku Steam
3D modelling 3D Sculpting Compositor Keyframe animation ... 3D Motion Graphics Motion tracking Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing 2D and 3D physics 3d sketching Animations HD-Rendering Node Based Parametric Modeling Scripting Video editing Animation rigging Built-in Image editor Customizable Drawing 2D Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil Intuitive Nodes Lightweight Low memory usage Non linear editor Physically-Based Rendering Portable Procedural modeling Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Rotoscoping Track everything UI customization UV Unfolding Video overlay Add a feature

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Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is...
- I love java and will start to develop a fork of this project. Guest • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
3D modelling Keyframe animation Add a feature

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Bforartists

Bforartists is a fork of Blender. It comes with the same features, but with an improved UI and usability.
- i learn blender with this software , many thanx for devolp hamadaspider • Jun 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku AmigaOS ... MorphOS
3D Sculpting Animations Compositor Customizable ... HD-Rendering Keyframe animation Lightweight Motion tracking Non linear editor Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing UI customization Add a feature

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K-3D

K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and...
- Discontinued According to the official website k-3d.org : The latest "source code" release is from November 2015. And the latest binary executable release is even older. According to its Sourceforge page ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/k3d/files/K-3D Win32 Binaries/ ), latest release is from june 2010.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
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GLC_Player

GLC_Player is a software used to view 3D models (COLLADA 3DXML OBJ 3DS STL OFF and COFF format are supported) and to navigate easily in these models. With the album...
- It is only a viewer, and not a modeler. Guest • Mar 2017
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
3D modelling Add a feature

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Gmsh

Gmsh is a 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD engine and post-processor. Its design goal is to provide a fast, light and user-friendly meshing tool with...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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CrackArt

CrackArt is a free open source 3D paint and texturing application that includes Texture Painting, Texture Baking, Procedural Materials and Textures, and much more. ...
- Discontinued The domain is long dead and the SourceForge project has not been updated since 2013.
Free Open Source Windows
Texture painting Texturing Add a feature

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DeleD CE

DeleD is a 3D modeler and level-editor combined into one. It focuses at game development and is specifically designed to create static objects/worlds. Other areas in...

Free Open Source Windows
Gaming Add a feature

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OpenFX

OpenFX is an open-source, free modeling and animation studio, distributed under the GNU General Public License. A powerful feature-set includes a full renderer and...

Free Open Source Windows
Texturing Add a feature

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Dead Deer

Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games. The scripting language allows you to code interactions in pseudo-C with the...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Windows Phone Daydream
3D modelling Creating 3D objects Scripting language Add a feature

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Moonlight|3D

Moonlight|3D is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team. Moonlight|3D 0.2.0 has the following...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
3D modelling Texturing Add a feature

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