10 Like Mitsuba Good alternative? YES NO Physically based renderer. Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains... Free Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like RenderMan Good alternative? YES NO PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer. It primarily uses the REYES algorithm but is also fully... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
9 Like Keyshot Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
5 Like Visual Designer 3D Good alternative? YES NO Visual Designer is an advanced GPU & CPU photorealistic renderer with a unique set of features to handle all the aspects of your creation. It will save a significant... Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
4 Like appleseed Good alternative? YES NO appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
2 Like Freestyle Good alternative? YES NO Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like Sunflow Rendering System Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like 3Delight Good alternative? YES NO 3Delight is a fast, high quality, RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments. The renderer was... Freemium Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like MiniLight Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like NOX Renderer Good alternative? YES NO 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. ... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
4 Like Arion Good alternative? YES NO Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our expertise in light simulation and makes it run on... Commercial Windows Real time rendering Add a feature
4 Like fryrender Good alternative? YES NO fryrender is the physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It is a photo-realistic render engine where all the elements involved in the generation of... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like Thea Render Good alternative? YES NO Thea Render is a state-of-the-art biased/unbiased renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one.... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Autodesk 3ds Max Sketchup Autodesk Softimage Blender No features added Add a feature
4 Like Indigo Renderer Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
2 Like Pixie Renderer Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
