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format. Models can also be directly imported into game development software such as Unity (game engine).
• Swift 3D (Electric Rain) is a relatively inexpensive 3D design, modeling, and animation application targeted to
entry-level 3D users and Adobe Flash designers. Swift 3D supports vector and raster-based 3D animations for
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight XAML.
• Vue (E-on Software) is a tool for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments. It was most
recently used to create the background jungle environments in the 2nd and 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean films. [18]
• ZBrush (Pixologic) is a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting tool
available for Mac OS X and Windows. It is used to create normal maps for low resolution models to make them
look more detailed.
Free packages
• 3D Canvas (now called 3D Crafter) is a 3D modeling and animation tool available in a freeware version, as well
as paid versions (3D Canvas Plus and 3D Canvas Pro).
• Anim8or is a proprietary freeware 3D rendering and animation package.
• Art of Illusion is a free software package developed under the GPL.
• AutoQ3D Community is not a professional CAD program and it is focused to beginners who want to make rapid
3D designs. It is a free software package developed under the GPL.
• Blender (Blender Foundation) is a free, open source, 3D studio for animation, modeling, rendering, and texturing
offering a feature set comparable to commercial 3D animation suites. It is developed under the GPL and is
available on all major platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Irix.
• Cheetah3D is proprietary freeware for Apple Macintosh computers primarily aimed at amateur 3D artists with
some medium- and high-end features
• DAZ Studio a free 3D rendering tool set for adjusting parameters of preexisting models, posing and rendering
them in full 3D scene environments. Imports objects created in Poser and is similar to that program, but with
fewer features.
• DX Studio a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics. The system
comprises both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of editing tools, and is the first product to offer a complete range
of tools in a single IDE.
• Evolver is a portal for 3D computer characters incorporating a human (humanoid) builder and a cloner to work
from picture.
• FaceGen is a source of human face models for other programs. Users are able to generate face models either
randomly or from input photographs.
• Geist3D is a free software program for real-time modeling and rendering three-dimensional graphics and
animations.
• GMax
• GPure is a software to prepare scene/meshes from digital mockup to multiple uses
• K-3D is a GNU modeling, animation, and rendering system available on Linux and Win32. It makes use of
RenderMan-compliant render engines. It features scene graph procedural modelling similar to that found in
Houdini.
• MakeHuman is a GPL program that generates 3D parametric humanoids.
• MeshLab is a free Windows, Linux and Mac OS X application for visualizing, simplifying, processing and
converting large three dimensional meshes to or from a variety of 3D file formats.
• NaroCAD a fully fledged and extensible 3D parametric modeling CAD application. It is based on OpenCascade.
The goal of this project is to develop a fully fledged and extensible 3D CAD software based on the concept of
parametric modeling of solids, comparable to well known solutions.
• OpenFX is a modeling and animation studio, distributed under the GPL.