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 and...
- It has nearly all features and is Open Source. Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- blender is best opensource 3D software Guest • Oct 2016
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS
3D Sculpting Compositor Keyframe animation 2D and 3D physics ... 3D Motion Graphics 3d sketching Animations Motion tracking Parametric Modeling Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil HD-Rendering Intuitive Nodes Lightweight Low memory usage Non linear editor Physically-Based Rendering Portable Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Scripting UI customization Video overlay Add a feature

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Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of...

Commercial Mac Windows
4k rendering Animations Motion tracking Node Based Add a feature

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Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution. Maya addresses the challenges faced by everyone from...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
3D Sculpting Keyframe animation Texturing 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
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
Keyframe animation Powerful render engine Scripting support Add a feature

61 Like
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
Built-in 3D model viewer Built-in viewer Embeddable Online Sharing 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
Keyframe animation Physically-Based Rendering Powerful render engine Scripting support ... Texturing 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
Portable 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 Mac Windows Linux Haiku AmigaOS ... MorphOS
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
No features added Add a feature

10 Like
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
No features added Add a feature

24 Like
LightWave

LightWave 3D combines a state-of-the-art renderer with powerful, intuitive modeling, and animation tools. Tools that may cost extra in other professional 3D applications...

Commercial Mac Windows
Bullet implementation Add a feature

12 Like
Clara.io

Clara.io is a full-featured cloud-based 3D modeling, animation and rendering software tool that runs in your web browser. With Clara.io you can make complex 3D...

Freemium Web
No features added Add a feature

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Carrara 8.5

Carrara 8.5 offers the latest in DAZ technology. Our software engineers have worked meticulously to ensure that the new features in Carrara 8.5 exceed the standard...

Commercial Mac Windows DAZ Studio
No features added Add a feature

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Zmodeler

ZModeler (or Zanoza Modeler) is a 3D modeling application. It is aimed at modelers who model for computer games such as 18 Wheels of Steel, Grand Theft Auto, Need for...

Freemium Windows
No features added Add a feature

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