Professional-grade 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual FX software used in films, TV, and games, featuring advanced tools, Bifrost effects, and a visual programming environment for intricate simulations.
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TouchDesigner AlternativesOnly apps categorised as VFX Software
The best VFX alternative to TouchDesigner is Autodesk Maya. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try TiXL or Vuo. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to TouchDesigner and eight of them are VFX Software so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting VFX Software alternatives to TouchDesigner are Houdini, Notch, Smode Studio and Coollab.
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62 Autodesk Maya alternatives
10 TiXL alternativesTiXL is an open-source solution for creating interactive 3d content and animations. It combines the best aspects of animation, compositing, and coding into a lightweight and intuitive UI. Your designs can be shared as executable or rendered to movies.
48 Houdini alternativesHoudini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
- Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs
- Animation - Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion captur.
Vuo lets media creators make interactive animations, exhibits, performances, and professional-grade media projects by connecting up simple building blocks. Media creators can use these blocks to manipulate audio input, images, layers, videos, and 2D + 3D graphics, as well as...
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- Free Personal
- Open Source
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- Mac
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11 Notch alternativesNotch is the game-changing real-time visual creation engine that keeps up with your ideas. From motion graphics to interactive installations to VR experiences to the largest performances on earth, it helps creators rediscover the joy of creating.
Smode is a real-time 2D/3D creation, compositing and video-mapping engine developed by D/Labs. Everything with Smode is real-time: you can change any parameter at anytime without having to make expensive re-renderings.
Smode Studio vs TouchDesigner Comments
- Smode Studio is Paid and Proprietary
Coollab's main goal is to be as intuitive and easy to use as possible. Effects are high-level and they just work out of the box! You don't need to know any math or programming to make your own very cool effects!
LightWave 3D combines a state-of-the-art renderer with powerful, intuitive modeling, and animation tools. Tools that may cost extra in other professional 3D applications are part of the product package, including 999 free cross-platform render nodes, support for Windows and Mac...
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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I like smode as an alternative as it's optomised for realtime visuals.