Indigo Renderer Alternatives

Indigo Renderer is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to Indigo Renderer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Sketchup and Blender apps. The best Indigo Renderer alternative is MoonRay, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Indigo Renderer are Adobe Dimension, LuxCoreRender, Cycles Renderer and Malt.

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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...

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Indigo Renderer alternatives page was last updated Mar 27, 2023
  1. MoonRay icon
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    MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

    46 MoonRay alternatives
    Render Profile Viewer

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    MoonRay Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  3D Renderer
    MoonRay iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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    • MoonRay is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Indigo Renderer.

    • MoonRay is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Indigo Renderer.

    • MoonRay is Free and Open SourceIndigo Renderer is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Adobe Dimension icon
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    Adobe Dimension (formerly Project Felix and then Adobe Dimension CC) is the 3D design tool made for graphic designers. With extensive integration with Adobe Stock, you can easily composite 2D and 3D assets to build product shots, scene visualizations, and abstract art.

    64 Adobe Dimension alternatives
    Adobe Dimension screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud

    Adobe Dimension Features

    1.  Grid layout
    2.  HD-Rendering
    Adobe Dimension iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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    • Adobe Dimension is the most popular Mac alternative to Indigo Renderer.

    • Adobe Dimension is the most popular commercial alternative to Indigo Renderer.

    • Adobe Dimension is Paid and ProprietaryIndigo Renderer is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. LuxCoreRender icon
     29 likes

    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.

    50 LuxCoreRender alternatives
    LuxCoreRender screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    LuxCoreRender Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  Ray Tracing
    LuxCoreRender iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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    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.

    21 Cycles Renderer alternatives
    Cycles Renderer screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Cycles Renderer Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Rendering
    3.  3D Renderer
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  5. Malt icon
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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...

    46 Malt alternatives
    Sample files

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Malt Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  3D Renderer
    Malt iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  6. POV-Ray icon
     30 likes

    The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

    43 POV-Ray alternatives
    Tiffany Cheerio

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Top POV-Ray Features

    1.  Physically-Based Rendering
    2.  Volumetric Media (Absorb/Emit/Scatter)
    3.  Untesselated geometry
    4.  Chromatic dispersion
    5.  Global Illumination (Radiosity)
    6.  Depth of Field
    7.  Dielectric materials
    8.  Pause Render process
    9.  Uv mapping
    10.  Render baking (Mesh Camera)
    11.  Final Gathering
    POV-Ray iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  7. Radeon ProRender icon
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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.

    21 Radeon ProRender alternatives
    Radeon ProRender screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Radeon ProRender Features

    1.  Physically-Based Rendering
    2.  3D Renderer
    3.  Rendering
    4.  GPU Acceleration
    Radeon ProRender iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  8. appleseed icon
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    appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects.

    52 appleseed alternatives
    appleseed screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    appleseed Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Rendering
    3.  Ray Tracing
    appleseed iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  9. Kerkythea icon
     14 likes

    Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer.

    Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and animation

    Supported Features*

    • Bump Mapping
    • Normal Mapping
    • Clip Mapping
    • Bevel Mapping (an.
    46 Kerkythea alternatives
    Kerkythea screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Sketchup
    • Blender

    Kerkythea Features

    1.  Ray Tracing
    2.  Rendering
    Kerkythea iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  10. Sunflow Rendering System icon
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    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...

    50 Sunflow Rendering System alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Sunflow Rendering System Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  Ray Tracing
    Sunflow Rendering System iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  11. Keyshot icon
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    KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.

    50 Keyshot alternatives
    Depth of Field

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Keyshot Features

    1.  HDR Support
    2.  Rendering
    Keyshot iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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  12. Pixie Renderer icon
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    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).

    49 Pixie Renderer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Pixie Renderer Features

    1.  Ray Tracing
    2.  Rendering
    Pixie Renderer iconIndigo Renderer Icon

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