Kerkythea Alternatives

Kerkythea is described as 'Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Kerkythea for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Autodesk 3ds Max and Sketchup apps. The best Kerkythea alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kerkythea are Cinema 4D, LuxCoreRender, MoonRay and Adobe Dimension.

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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.

    139 Blender alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
    • Blender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Kerkythea.

    • Blender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Kerkythea.

    • Blender is Free and Open SourceKerkythea is Free and Proprietary
    • Blender is Customizable, Lightweight and Privacy focusedKerkythea is not according to our users
  2. Cinema 4D icon
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    CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing...

    47 Cinema 4D alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Cinema 4D is the most popular commercial alternative to Kerkythea.

    • Cinema 4D is Paid and ProprietaryKerkythea is Free and Proprietary
  3. LuxCoreRender icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Adobe Dimension icon
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    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.

    57 Adobe Dimension alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
     
  6. MagicaCSG icon
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    A lightweight signed distance field editor and renderer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  7. POV-Ray icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. picoCAD icon
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    picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models. Programs for modelling are overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. This program was made using pico 8.

    129 picoCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  9. RenderMan icon
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    PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.

    44 RenderMan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. Mitsuba icon
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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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 system and the ability to simulate complex lighting...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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