Free Keyshot Alternatives

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   LuxCoreRender

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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

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Keyshot.

   • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Keyshot.

   • LuxCoreRender is Free and Open SourceKeyshot is Paid and Proprietary
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   MoonRay

    3 likes

   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

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   RenderMan

    10 likes

   PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.

   44 RenderMan alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free Personal
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Mitsuba

    15 likes

   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

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Malt

    2 likes

   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

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   appleseed

    10 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Sunflow Rendering System

    9 likes

   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...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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    Pixie Renderer

     6 likes

    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    YafaRay

     13 likes

    YafaRay is a free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Russia

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blender

    

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    NOX Renderer

     3 likes

    NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods.

    The renderer is available as a standalone Windows executable with a plug-in to link it to 3ds Max.

    A linking script is also available for Blender users.

    As with other similar applications, such as Maxwell Render a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Poland
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

    

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    MiniLight

     2 likes

    MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    OctaneBench®

     1 like

    OctaneBench® allows you to benchmark your GPU using OctaneRender. This provides a level playing field by making sure that everybody uses the same version and the same scenes and settings. Without these constraints, benchmark results can vary a lot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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