Autodesk Mudbox Alternatives

Autodesk Mudbox is described as 'Digital sculpting and texture painting software for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets with efficient layer workflows' and is a 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Autodesk Mudbox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Autodesk Mudbox alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Autodesk Mudbox are ZBrush, Bforartists, Cinema 4D and 3D-Coat.

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  1. Comprehensive 3D texturing tool offering advanced brushes, smart materials, real-time rendering, and versatility for both photorealism and stylized designs, making it an ideal choice for artists and designers to create lifelike, detailed assets with lighting and shadow effects.

    19 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Steam
     
  2. Quixel Mixer icon
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    Quixel Mixer is a software allowing to create and modify 3D textures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. picoCAD icon
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    picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models. Programs for modelling are overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. This program was made using pico 8.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Zmodeler icon
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    ZModeler (or Zanoza Modeler) is a 3D modeling application. It is aimed at modelers who model for computer games such as 18 Wheels of Steel, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, Midtown Madness or similar video games.

    63 Zmodeler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. MARI icon
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    MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. MeshMolder icon
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    MeshMolder is a digital sculpting software that works like a clay, adding and removing parts where desired by controlling the thickness and radius of coverage and thus creating the final form. The software is completely in beta, functional and free (freeware) can be used as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Nirvana 3D icon
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    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  8. 3DCrafter icon
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    3DCrafter (formerly 3D Canvas) is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling.

    65 3DCrafter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. Working with 3D files using MeshMagic free 3D modelling software is intuitive. Quickly draw a 2D design and expand it to a 3D mesh. Import an existing STL file or other 3D file and modify it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Face Gen icon
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    The easy way to create realistic faces 3D human faces from 1 or 2 photographs or at random. Adjust age, race, gender and 150 other controls. Apply faces to any polygonal mesh and UV map. The free version has the full functionality of the paid version except for exporting to e.

    22 Face Gen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Pointshop3D icon
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    Pointshop3D is a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, it supports a great variety of different interaction techniques to alter shape and appearance of 3D point models, including cleaning...

    42 Pointshop3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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