Blender Alternatives

Apps similar to Blender include Natron, which is free and open source. Other options are Hew, Autodesk Maya, Wings 3D and Autodesk 3ds Max. There's no shortage of 3D Modelers like Blender, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and iPad.

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  1. Silo icon
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    Silo Professional is the main version of Silo, which gives users access to everything Silo has to offer. This includes Silo's core modeling toolset, as well as advanced features for UV editing, displacement painting, re-topologization, and more.

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  2. Strata Design 3D CX is our professional-level 3D modeling and animation software for Windows / PC that delivers end-to-end power for the entire 3D design workflow. Quickly bring your creative ideas to life with a simplified learning curve, tight integration with Adobe Photoshop...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Awakening icon
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    Awakening is a powerful professional real-time 3D solution. With it, you can easily create eye-catching interactive 3D presentations, brief films, games...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. 3D morphing application available as a stand-alone or part of Blacksmith3D-Suite.

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    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. SDF 3D icon
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    SDF features a standard toolset of modelling functions and high-resolution export for 3D Printers (STL Format). SDF uses the SoftEdge© modelling technique which is memory efficient and adapted to mobile devices respecting their memory and CPU limitations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Solar icon
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    Lightstream Solar is a new GPU-accelerated high-end compositor for VFX work.

    The software provides a node and tree-based workflow, and offers the range of tools one would expect in an app of this type, including layer management tools, colour correction and grading, and addition.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Deep FX Studio is a general purpose 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows and will be ported to Linux in the future. Tools anyone can use and master. Built from the ground up to be intuitive for artists who only want to focus on their art, and technical artists...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. Dead Deer icon
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    Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  11. Plotagon icon
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    There is power in animation. It captures attention. It stimulates the senses. It’s timeless.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  12. formZ jr icon
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    form•Z jr, previously called bonZai3d, is an application with a fresh approach to 3D modeling aimed at delivering conceptual design and sketching ideas quickly while still making it possible to carry you to the next level of productivity.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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