EmberGen AlternativesOnly apps categorised as VFX Software

The best VFX alternative to EmberGen is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked nine alternatives to EmberGen and five of them are VFX Software so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting VFX Software alternatives to EmberGen are Natron, Houdini, PopcornFX and Autodesk Flame.

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  1. Blender icon
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    A comprehensive open-source 3D software suite for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating. It supports renderings, simulations including fluid and cloth dynamics, complex compositing, video editing, and Python scripting, running across all major operating systems.

    143 Blender alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Natron icon
     221 likes

    Natron 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...

    20 Natron alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
     
  3. Houdini icon
     41 likes

    Houdini 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.
    49 Houdini alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PopcornFX icon
     5 likes

    A 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Autodesk Flame software is a powerful finishing and visual effects solution with an integrated environment that accelerates creative workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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