Alternatives to Houdini for all platforms with any license

Blender

Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing...
- It has nearly all features and is Open Source. Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- blender is best opensource 3D software Guest • Oct 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku Steam
3D modelling 3D Sculpting Compositor Animations ... Keyframe animation Real time rendering 3d animation Community based Texturing 3D Motion Graphics 3d renderer Animation rigging Motion tracking Physically-Based Rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Video editing 2D and 3D physics 3d sketching Animation Customizable Drawing 2D Frame by frame animation HD-Rendering Lightweight Node Based Parametric Modeling Scripting UV Unfolding Vector Drawing Vfx 3D Composing Built-in Image editor Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil Intuitive Nodes Low memory usage Mapping Non linear editor Portable Procedural modeling Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Rotoscoping Track everything UI customization Video overlay Add a feature

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Autodesk Maya

Professional, cross-platform 3D modeling, animation, rendering and visual FX for games, TV, films and more.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
3D modelling 3D Sculpting Animation Keyframe animation ... Simulation Texturing Vfx Add a feature

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Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows
3D modelling Animation Bones Splines Add a feature

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Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D is a 3D modeling, animation, motion graphics and rendering application.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
Animation Keyframe animation Scripting support Add a feature

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Sketchfab

Sketchfab is the first web service to publish interactive 3D content online in real-time without plugins. Every new format has its global platform: videos have...

Freemium Web
3D modelling 3D Sculpting Animation Built-in 3D model viewer ... Built-in viewer Embeddable Gaming Online Sharing Real-time WebGL Add a feature

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MODO

MODO is a fully featured 3D content creation application, famous primarily for it's modelling capabilities, MODO also offers a fast renderer, sculpting, painting...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
3D Sculpting 3D modelling Animation Keyframe animation ... Physically-Based Rendering Scripting support Simulation Texturing Add a feature

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Bforartists

Bforartists is a fork of Blender. It comes with the same features, but with an improved UI and usability.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS
Animation 3D Sculpting Animations Compositor ... Customizable HD-Rendering Keyframe animation Lightweight Motion tracking Non linear editor Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing UI customization Add a feature

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iClone

Real-time animation evolves with 3D Video FX, motion paths, HDR and rapid drag & drop creation inside iClone. iClone combines video production with 3D real-time...

Commercial Windows
Animation Add a feature

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K-3D

K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and...
- Discontinued
  According to the official website k-3d.org : The latest "source code" release is from November 2015. And the latest binary executable release is even older. According to its Sourceforge page ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/k3d/files/K-3D Win32 Binaries/ ), latest release is from june 2010.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Animation Portable Add a feature

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Vue

Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse...
- vue only works with procedural terrain generation while houdini is more of a simulations software which has 3d modelling capabilities to some extent. Guest • May 2017
Commercial Mac Windows
3D modelling Vfx Add a feature

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