Open Source Blender Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Blender is Wings 3D. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Blender and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Blender are Natron, Bforartists, Flowblade and Cinecred.

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Free open-source 3D software for modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and simulation.

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Blender alternatives page was last updated Nov 20, 2024
  1. Maverick Model 3D icon
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    Maverick Model 3D is a triangle-based 3D model editor that supports a variety of geometry manipulation tools, texturing, and skeletal and vertex frame animations. There is a help manual included.

    50 Maverick Model 3D alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Windows
    • Mac

    Maverick Model 3D Features

    1.  Texturing
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    Loki Render allows you to create your own render farm, serving Blender render jobs to a group of computers. Loki is easy to setup and runs on Linux, Windows or Mac, making it a quick and flexible distributed network rendering solution!.

    5 Loki Render alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Loki Render Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  3D Renderer
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  3. Rebaslight icon
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    Rebaslight is a program where you can add glow effects.

    4 Rebaslight alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Rebaslight Features

    1.  Special effects
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  4. TetGen icon
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    TetGen is a program to generate tetrahedral meshes of any 3D polyhedral domains. TetGen generates exact constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations, boundary conforming Delaunay meshes, and Voronoi partitions.

    14 TetGen alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. NETGEN icon
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    NETGEN is an automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator. It accepts input from constructive solid geometry (CSG) or boundary representation (BRep) from STL file format.

    14 NETGEN alternatives
    NETGEN screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    enGrid is an open-source mesh generation software with CFD applications in mind. enGrid uses an in-house development for surface meshing and prismatic boundary layers; a module for hex far-fields will be added in the next release.

    14 enGrid alternatives
    enGrid screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  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.

    98 Nirvana 3D alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python

    Nirvana 3D Features

    1.  Physically-Based Rendering
    2.  Rendering
    3.  3D Game Engine
    4.  3D Renderer
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