Alternatives to AC3D for all platforms with any 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 and...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS
3D Sculpting Compositor Keyframe animation 2D and 3D physics ... 3D Motion Graphics 3D Renderer 3d sketching Motion tracking Parametric Modeling Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing Animations Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil HD-Rendering Intuitive Nodes Lightweight Low memory usage Non linear editor Physically-Based Rendering Portable Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Scripting UI customization Video overlay Add a feature

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Sketchup

SketchUp (formerly Google Sketchup) is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Web Android
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464 Like
MakeHuman

MakeHuman is an interactive modelling tool for creating realistic 3D human characters. These models can be exported to several computer graphics and animation platforms...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
3D Sculpting Parametric Modeling Texture painting Add a feature

93 Like
Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution. Maya addresses the challenges faced by everyone from...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
3D Sculpting Keyframe animation Texturing Add a feature

102 Like
Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows
Bones Splines Add a feature

97 Like
Sculptris

Sculptris is an elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the...

Free Mac Windows
3D Sculpting Texture painting Add a feature

64 Like
Sketchfab

Sketchfab is the first web service to publish interactive 3D content online in real-time without plugins. Every new format has its global platform: videos have...

Freemium Web
Built-in 3D model viewer Built-in viewer Embeddable Add a feature

22 Like
MODO

MODO is a fully featured 3D content creation application, famous primarily for it's modelling capabilities, MODO also offers a fast renderer, sculpting, painting...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Keyframe animation Physically-Based Rendering Powerful render engine Scripting support ... Texturing Add a feature

30 Like
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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Keyframe animation Add a feature

27 Like
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
Portable Add a feature

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Rocket 3F

Rocket 3F is polygonal modeller created for Concept Artists and Designers. Modeling with Rocket 3F is like drawing - very Simple and Inspiring! The Most important...

Free Personal Windows
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9 Like
Bforartists

Bforartists is a fork of Blender. It comes with the same features, but with an improved UI and usability.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku AmigaOS ... MorphOS
Compositor Customizable HD-Rendering Keyframe animation ... Lightweight Motion tracking Non linear editor Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing UI customization Add a feature

11 Like
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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14 Like
Houdini

Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including: * Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

21 Like