appleseed Alternatives

appleseed is described as 'modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It provides individuals and small studios with an efficient, reliable suite of tools built on robust foundations and open technologies' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to appleseed for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Blender and Sketchup apps. The best appleseed alternative is Cycles Renderer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like appleseed are LuxCoreRender, Adobe Dimension, POV-Ray and Radeon ProRender.

appleseed alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers but may also be 3D Animators. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of appleseed.

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Cycles Renderer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
21 Cycles Renderer alternatives
Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011. It was originally developed by Brecht van Lommel, and is maintained by an active team of developers today. Since its release as Apache 2.
- - Cycles Renderer is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to appleseed.
- - Cycles Renderer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to appleseed.
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Cycles Renderer Features
1. PortableCycles Renderer can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Rendering
3D Renderer
LuxCoreRender
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
49 LuxCoreRender alternatives
LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.
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Rendering
Ray Tracing
Adobe Dimension
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Paid • Proprietary
3D Modeler
Graphic Design Tool
Mac
Windows
Adobe Creative Cloud
65 Adobe Dimension alternatives
Adobe Dimension (formerly Project Felix and then Adobe Dimension CC) is the 3D design tool made for graphic designers. With extensive integration with Adobe Stock, you can easily composite 2D and 3D assets to build product shots, scene visualizations, and abstract art.
- - Adobe Dimension is the most popular commercial alternative to appleseed.
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Adobe Dimension Features
Grid layout
HD-Rendering
POV-Ray
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
42 POV-Ray alternatives
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.
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POV-Ray Features
1. Physically-Based RenderingPrecise rendering method for POV-Ray to represent of how light interacts with material properties.
Volumetric Media (Absorb/Emit/Scatter)
Untesselated geometry
Chromatic dispersion
Global Illumination (Radiosity)
Depth of Field
Dielectric materials
Pause Render process
Uv mapping
Render baking (Mesh Camera)
Final Gathering
Radeon ProRender
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
21 Radeon ProRender alternatives
AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based path traced rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images.
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Radeon ProRender Features
1. Physically-Based RenderingPrecise rendering method for Radeon ProRender to represent of how light interacts with material properties.
3D Renderer
Rendering
GPU Acceleration
Keyshot
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Paid • Proprietary
3D Animator
Mac
Windows
50 Keyshot alternatives
KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.
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Keyshot Features
HDR Support
Rendering
Kerkythea
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Sketchup
Blender
46 Kerkythea alternatives
Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer.

Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and animation

Supported Features*
- Bump Mapping
- Normal Mapping
- Clip Mapping
- Bevel Mapping (an.
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Kerkythea Features
Ray Tracing
Rendering
MoonRay
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
46 MoonRay alternatives
MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, the upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, as well as future...
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Rendering
3D Renderer
Sunflow Rendering System
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
50 Sunflow Rendering System alternatives
Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and...
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Rendering
Ray Tracing
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YafaRay
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Blender
53 YafaRay alternatives
YafaRay is a free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.
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Ray Tracing
Rendering
Malt
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
46 Malt alternatives
Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration. Designed as a community effort to expand the possibility space of 3d rendering, it provides graphics programmers and technical artist an enjoyable “shadertoy-like” workflow inside Blender...
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Rendering
3D Renderer
Pixie Renderer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
49 Pixie Renderer alternatives
Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using XCode or unix style configure script).
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Ray Tracing
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