Autodesk Maya Alternatives

Autodesk Maya is described as 'Comprehensive software for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, trusted by top artists for films and games, with tools to enhance workflows' and is a very popular 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Autodesk Maya for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Autodesk Maya alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Autodesk Maya are Autodesk 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Spline and Bforartists.

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    Deep FX Studio is a general purpose 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows and will be ported to Linux in the future. Tools anyone can use and master. Built from the ground up to be intuitive for artists who only want to focus on their art, and technical artists...

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    • Pay once
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    Unifies product concepting, modeling, and surface refinement with subdivisional modeling, automated mesh surfacing, algorithmic tools, immersive VR design, assembly management, VRED integration, and seamless collaboration across disciplines in a single design pipeline.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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    Animation:Master is a 3D character animation application offered by Hash, Inc. that includes tools for modeling, rigging, animating, texturing, lighting and rendering. The software uses a proprietary spline mesh technology to perform modeling and animation, and it is different...

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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    Created by and for animators, akeytsu brings creativity back into 3D animation with an easy-to-learn and intuitive UI design.

    37 Akeytsu alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
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    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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    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 Speed, Midtown Madness or similar video games.

    64 Zmodeler alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
     
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    RealFlow is a stand-alone application for fluid and dynamics simulation that allows easy, intuitive control and visualization of the behaviour of fluids and rigid bodies, and their interaction with a surrounding environment.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Polydust is a 3D modeling app made for iPad. For low poly, polygonal and voxel graphics. Create beautiful models with powerful operations and modifiers.

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    • Subscription
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    • Polydust is the most popular iPad alternative to Autodesk Maya.

    • Polydust is Paid and ProprietaryAutodesk Maya is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Cheetah3D is a computer graphics program for 3D modelling, animation and rendering. It is written in Cocoa for MacOS. The program is aimed at beginning and amateur 3D artists.

    55 Cheetah3D alternatives

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    • Pay once
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    • Mac
     
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    DeleD is a 3D modeler and level-editor combined into one. It focuses at game development and is specifically designed to create static objects/worlds. Other areas in which you can put DeleD to good use are, for example, educational services, webdesign, prototyping and image...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    Braid Art Labs has released a new version of GroBoto, its organic art software, positioning the package more as a general-purpose modelling tool.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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    Pulldownit is a brand new dynamics solver which allows for the creation of fractures as well as massive rigid bodies simulations. By using its technology digital artists are able to simulate fast and easily the collapse of buildings, cracking surfaces or fracturing any kind of...

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    • Paid
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    • Autodesk 3ds Max
     
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    Realsoft 3D is a full-featured 3D software package with a relatively low price tag.

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    • Pay once
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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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