Blender AlternativesOnly apps categorised as 3D Painting Apps

The best 3D Painting alternative to Blender is Autodesk 3ds Max. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Clavicula or Hexagon. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Blender and 18 are 3D Painting Apps so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting 3D Painting App alternatives to Blender are ZBrush, Autodesk Mudbox, 3D-Coat and Sunny 3D.

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  1. Autodesk 3ds Max icon
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    Professional-grade software designed for 3D modeling, rendering, and animation, equipped with comprehensive tools for creating detailed worlds. Widely used across film, TV, games, and design projects, it includes the powerful Arnold renderer, offering artistic control over scenes and characters.

    82 Autodesk 3ds Max alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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  2. ZBrush icon
     82 likes

    Comprehensive digital sculpting tool offering advanced features like sculpting up to a billion polygons, customizable brushes, real-time painting, and powerful rendering system. Ideal for professionals in film, gaming, and more. Integrates with Redshift and supports Apple Pencil.

    55 ZBrush alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks ZBrush is a great Blender alternative.

    • ZBrush is the most popular iPad alternative to Blender.

    • ZBrush is Paid and ProprietaryBlender is Free and Open Source
  3. Autodesk Mudbox icon
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    Autodesk Mudbox offers tools for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets. It features an efficient layer workflow that allows blending, masking, and more, and has a familiar interface for sculpting and texture painting. Ideal for professional 3D modeling tasks.

    51 Autodesk Mudbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 3D-Coat icon
     45 likes

    3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.

    67 3D-Coat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  5. Clavicula icon
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    Clavicula is a free 3D modeling software aimed at artists and users of all levels. It allows you to quickly give shape to your artistic, design, or engineering ideas, to create highly complex objects using a relatively simple toolkit.

    16 Clavicula alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Sunny 3D icon
     4 likes

    With ultimate simple user interface, you can create 3D model by using freehand sketch and directly apply painting to your 3D model without learning difficult texture mapping.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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  7. Metasequoia icon
     14 likes

    Metasequoia is a polygon modeler for 3DCG and game development. It provides you efficient modeling works. It is very easy to use and learn, and even a beginner of 3DCG will be able to manage it one day.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Hexagon icon
     11 likes

    Hexagon delivers all the tools a graphic artist needs to create complete, detailed, textured 3D models ready to be rendered.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. MARI icon
     15 likes

    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.

    32 MARI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Comments about MARI as an Alternative to Blender
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    Mari is focused in a very specific subset of 3d creation

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • MARI is Paid and ProprietaryBlender is Free and Open Source
  10. Blacksmith3D icon
     4 likes

    Paint in 3d across texture seams with ease. Choose from clone & projection tools, paint from a photo resource, make seamless tiles, sculpt existing models with chisels or hammers or make new morphs,.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. 123D Sculpt icon
     5 likes

    Free for a limited time!

    With Autodesk® 123D™ Sculpt you can sculpt and paint interesting and realistic 3D shapes.

    It’s easy to get started. Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own.

    38 123D Sculpt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPad
     
  12. Pointshop3D icon
     3 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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