Blender Alternatives

Blender is described as 'Free open-source 3D software for modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and simulation' and is a leading 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Blender for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Blender alternative is Autodesk Maya. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Wings 3D or Bforartists. Other great apps like Blender are Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Natron and ZBrush.

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Blender alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers, but if you're looking for 3D Animators or 3D Painting Apps you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Free, Android, Online, iPad, Open Source and Android Tablet + VFX. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Blender.
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    Animation:Master is a 3D character animation application offered by Hash, Inc. that includes tools for modeling, rigging, animating, texturing, lighting and rendering. The software uses a proprietary spline mesh technology to perform modeling and animation, and it is different...

    35 Animation Master alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  2. DeleD CE icon
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    DeleD is a 3D modeler and level-editor combined into one. It focuses at game development and is specifically designed to create static objects/worlds. Other areas in which you can put DeleD to good use are, for example, educational services, webdesign, prototyping and image...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. Blacksmith3D icon
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    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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. Sculptfab icon
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    Sculptfab is a very simple tool letting you sculpt 3D models in the browser, and publishing them in 1 click to sketchfab.com.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    BricsCAD Shape lets you create without limits. Sculpt your ideas in solids from the start. It’s the power of free-form modeling with full CAD accuracy.

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    With RenderJuice, render like the big studios. Just upload your .blend or .c4d file in your browser and start rendering. Cut down your render timelines and costs. Speed up renders by using the most powerful GPUs and algorithms from your workstation.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Action Pro icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. 123D Sculpt icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • iPad
     
  11. 3DTin icon
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    3DTin is a browser based 3D modelling tool.

    It gives you a simple user interface to create 3D models, and runs in any HTML5 browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safar, IE9), no matter which operating system you use. It is absolutely FREE to use and requires no experience in 3D desig.

    50 3DTin alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
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