Professional-grade 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual FX software used in films, TV, and games, featuring advanced tools, Bifrost effects, and a visual programming environment for intricate simulations.
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Blender AlternativesOnly apps categorised as VFX Software for Mac
There are many alternatives to Blender for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac VFX Software alternative is Autodesk Maya. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Natron or Vue. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Blender and ten of them are VFX Software available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac VFX Software alternatives to Blender are Houdini, Autodesk Flame, LightWave and PopcornFX.
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- 61 Autodesk Maya alternatives
18 Natron alternativesNatron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking...
Comments about Natron as an Alternative to Blender
It's not for Composing in 3D!
It does compositing too. If this isn't an alternative, you might want to take Nuke off as well
- Natron is Free and Open Source
47 Houdini alternativesHoudini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
- Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs
- Animation - Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion captur.
62 Vue alternativesCreate vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks.
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Comments about Vue as an Alternative to Blender
Vue does landscapes primarily
- Vue is Free and Proprietary
Autodesk Flame software is a powerful finishing and visual effects solution with an integrated environment that accelerates creative workflows.
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46 LightWave alternativesLightWave 3D combines a state-of-the-art renderer with powerful, intuitive modeling, and animation tools. Tools that may cost extra in other professional 3D applications are part of the product package, including 999 free cross-platform render nodes, support for Windows and Mac...
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25 PopcornFX alternativesA suite of tools dedicated to real-time visual effects creation, along with ready-to-run mainstream game engine integrations and a runtime simulation framework for custom integration.
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27 Apple Motion alternativesDesigned for video editors, Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.
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Comments about Apple Motion as an Alternative to Blender
Motion is designed primarily for 2D and relatively simple 3D animation, whereas you can model and rig 3D characters in Blender.
- Apple Motion is Paid and Proprietary
8 EmberGen alternativesEmberGen uses the full power of your GPU—so you can simulate and render volumetric phenomena in real-time for faster iterations than ever before. Utilize random seeds to generate new variations on the fly.
Action Pro is cutting-edge technology that lets you effortlessly create animated movement using familiar (mouse and joypad) and cutting-edge (Leap Motion) input devices.
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it does not build 3d models, it has no game design, natron is mostly use for videos, and it doesnt allow 3d models in the program