Visual Designer 3D!

Visual Designer 3D alternatives

  • RenderMan

  • PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.

    tags: cgi rendering photorealistic 3d-rendering global-illumination
  • Keyshot

  • 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 images from 3D models.

    tags: appearance cgi graphics hdr intel
  • appleseed

  • appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It provides individuals and small studios with an efficient, reliable suite of tools built on robust foundations and open technologies.

    tags: Portable rendering physically-based raytracing global-illumination
  • Sunflow Rendering System

  • 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 object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and new surface shading models.Current Features:

    tags: java cgi rendering photorealistic raytracing
  • NOX Renderer

  • NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods.

    tags: 3ds-max cgi rendering unbiased
  • MiniLight

  • 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 development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines). There are translations into several programming languages.

    tags: global-illumination graphics monte-carlo physically-based python
  • Indigo Renderer

  • 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 physical camera model, a super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting situations through Metropolis Light Transport, Indigo Renderer is capable of producing the highest levels of realism demanded by architectural and product visualization.

    tags: cgi rendering photorealistic physically-based unbiased
  • Pixie Renderer

  • 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 XCode or unix style configure script).

    tags: cgi rendering raytracing global-illumination renderman
  • Toolbag

  • Marmoset Toolbag™ is a full-featured, real-time material editor and renderer bundled in a tidy package. Toolbag provides 3D artists a powerful and efficient workflow, bringing exemplary rendering quality to every stage of the 3D art pipeline.

    tags: cgi game-development gpu graphics realtime
  • Adobe Dimension CC

  • Adobe Dimension CC (formerly Project Felix) is the 3D design tool made for graphic designers. With extensive integration with Adobe Stock, you can easily composite 2D and 3D assets to build product shots, scene visualizations, and abstract art. You can preview your design as you go, experiment and edit your ideas without having to render a final image to see your work. You can also enlarge the preview window to see details up close. When you’re ready, render your design into a high-quality asset you can save and then open in Adobe Photoshop CC to refine further. »

    tags: 3d-graphics 3d-modeling graphic-designers hd-rendering
  • YafaRay

  • YafaRay is an open source raytracing render engine. As an open source project, users and developers have free access to the source code and it is free, as in free speech.

    tags: 3d-modeling cgi rendering 3d-graphics raytracing
  • Octane Render

  • Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render photorealistic results fast...really fast. This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of traditional CPU based renderers.

    tags: cgi rendering gpu unbiased un-biased