MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
United StatesPlatforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
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Cycles Renderer Alternatives
Cycles Renderer is described as 'Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011. It was originally developed by Brecht van Lommel, and is maintained by an active team of developers today. Since its release as Apache 2' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cycles Renderer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Blender and Autodesk 3ds Max apps. The best Cycles Renderer alternative is MoonRay, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cycles Renderer are Adobe Dimension, LuxCoreRender, V-Ray and Mitsuba.
Alternatives list
42 MoonRay alternatives
Versatile 3D design tool combining asset compositing and photorealistic rendering with real-time previews. Access Adobe Stock seamlessly and enhance with Photoshop for practical workflows.
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LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
C
V-Ray for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the well-known V-Ray award-winning production rendering engine with the flexibility and exceptional speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT and the even more impressive new V-Ray RT...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Rhinoceros
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk Revit
- Sketchup
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Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation. It consists of a core library and a set of plugins that implement functionality ranging from materials and light sources to complete rendering algorithms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
C
PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
C
Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced physical camera model, a super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration. Designed as a community effort to expand the possibility space of 3d rendering, it provides graphics programmers and technical artist an enjoyable “shadertoy-like” workflow inside Blender...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based path traced rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
C
Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
C
Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using XCode or unix style configure script).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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