Autodesk Maya Alternatives

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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 3ds Max

It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and can be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is frequently used by video game developers, many TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Animation
• Bones
• Splines

Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0. There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Abandoned Cart Recovery
• Keyframe animation
• Uv mapping

Cinema 4D

CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering. CINEMA 4D is a 3-D application that is popular amongst matte painters in film production, largely due to the BodyPaint 3D functionality.

Features:

• Animation
• Keyframe animation
• Scripting support

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 powerful package. K-3D excels at polygonal modeling, and includes basic tools for NURBS, patches, curves and animation.

Features:

• Animation
• Portable

MODO

* With fast direct modeling, flexible procedural modeling, the award-winning MeshFusion Boolean toolset and built-in sculpting tools all working together, Modo’s modeling moxie is unmatched. * Free yourself from creativity-killing constraints, with Modo’s intuitive, artist-friendly toolset. From roughing out volumes to creating highly detailed forms, Modo lets you focus on creation, not construction.

Features:

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

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewelry design, automotive design, CAD / CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering as well as the multimedia and graphic design industries. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS* curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes.

Features:

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

Bforartists

Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills. Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3d software Blender. It can be used for modeling, UV mapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, physics etc. . And comes with Python for embedded scripting.

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 animation. The result is a powerful production tool for motion graphics, 3D animation and video compositing.

Rocket 3F

Rocket 3F is polygonal modeller created for Concept Artists and Designers. Modeling with Rocket 3F is like drawing - very Simple and Inspiring! The Most important feature of Rocket 3F is Workflow! It is Fast Fun and Friendly!

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Support for Android Things