Animation Master Alternatives

Blender

Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing...

Features:

• 3D modelling
• 3D Sculpting
• Compositor
• Animations
• Keyframe animation
• Real time rendering
• 3d animation
• Community based
• Texturing
• 3D Motion Graphics
• 3d renderer
• Animation rigging
• Motion tracking
• Physically-Based Rendering
• Rendering with graphics card
• Texture painting
• Video editing
• 2D and 3D physics
• 3d sketching
• Animation
• Customizable
• Drawing 2D
• Frame by frame animation
• HD-Rendering
• Lightweight
• Node Based
• Parametric Modeling
• Scripting
• UV Unfolding
• Vector Drawing
• Vfx
• 3D Composing
• Built-in Image editor
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Grease Pencil
• Intuitive Nodes
• Low memory usage
• Mapping
• Non linear editor
• Portable
• Procedural modeling
• Procedural Texturing
• Realistic viewport
• Rotoscoping
• Track everything
• UI customization
• Video overlay

Autodesk Maya

Professional, cross-platform 3D modeling, animation, rendering and visual FX for games, TV, films and more.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• 3D Sculpting
• Animation
• Keyframe animation
• Simulation
• Texturing
• Vfx

Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Animation
• Bones
• Splines

K-3D

K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and...

Features:

• Animation
• Portable

MODO

MODO is a fully featured 3D content creation application, famous primarily for it's modelling capabilities, MODO also offers a fast renderer, sculpting, painting...

Features:

• 3D Sculpting
• 3D modelling
• Animation
• Keyframe animation
• Physically-Based Rendering
• Scripting support
• Simulation
• Texturing

Rhinoceros

Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS* curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on...

Features:

• Nurb Surfacing
• 3D modelling
• Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• Parametric Modeling
• Procedural modeling

Houdini

Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including: * Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier...

Features:

• 3d animation
• 3D modelling
• 3d renderer
• 3D Sculpting
• Animation
• Motion Capture
• Simulation
• Vfx

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is the first web service to publish interactive 3D content online in real-time without plugins. Every new format has its global platform: videos have...

Features:

• 3D modelling
• 3D Sculpting
• Animation
• Built-in 3D model viewer
• Built-in viewer
• Embeddable
• Gaming
• Online Sharing
• Real-time
• WebGL

Bforartists

Bforartists is a fork of Blender. It comes with the same features, but with an improved UI and usability.

Features:

• Animation
• 3D Sculpting
• Animations
• Compositor
• Customizable
• HD-Rendering
• Keyframe animation
• Lightweight
• Motion tracking
• Non linear editor
• Rendering with graphics card
• Texture painting
• Texturing
• UI customization

iClone

Real-time animation evolves with 3D Video FX, motion paths, HDR and rapid drag & drop creation inside iClone. iClone combines video production with 3D real-time...