Amabilis 3D Canvas
3D Canvas is a freeware real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas' Object Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D objects.

Ashlar Argon
Powerful and affordable! argon offers incredibly powerful and easy to use free-form wireframe, surfacing, and solid modeling. With Argon, anyone can do advanced 3D modeling, just Creat It.

Ashlar Xenon
Extreme power, performance. Created specifically for the needs of industrial designers, Xenon integrates, associative and history-based free-form wireframe, class-A NURBS surfacing, and ACIS solid modeling.

Ashlar Cobalt
Powerfully integrating advanced parametric free-form wireframe, organic class-A NURBS wurfacing, and advanced ACIS feature-based solid modeling. Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt is the ultimate product/engineering design and development tool.

auto.des.sys form.Z
form•Z is an award winning general purpose solid and surface modeler with an extensive set of 2D/3D form manipulating and sculpting capabilities, many of which are unique. It is an effective design tool for architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, animators and illustrators, industrial and interior designers, and all design fields that deal with the articulation of 3D spaces and forms. form•Z is highly responsive to the needs of mature designers and, at the same time, novices can use it with ease.

auto.des.sys RenderZone Plus
form·Z RenderZone Plus is the version of form·Z that, in addition to all the modeling/drafting /animation tools found in the basic package, includes photorealistic rendering based on the LightWorks® rendering engine. It offers three levels of rendering: simple, z-buffer, and raytrace. A user can start developing the image of a 3D model at the simple level and gradually turn on features and render it at the most photorealistic level. form•Z RenderZone Plus also includes the ability to produce images based on global illumination techniques, which create renderings with the most realism, as the illumination of a scene takes into account the accurate distribution of light in the environment. In RenderZone Plus, global illumination includes final gather, ambient occlusion, and radiosity techniques, which can be applied separately or can be combined.

Autodesk Maya
Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface), or one of two embedded scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas.

Autodesk Maya Unlimited
Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited contains everything available in Maya Complete, plus: Maya nCloth – lets you quickly direct and control cloth and other material simulations in entirely new ways. Beyond cloth, Maya nCloth lets you create deformable plastic and metal simulations, inflatable objects, as well as rigid-body and fluidic-type effects. Maya Fluid Effects – simulate and render a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid, and open-ocean effects. Maya Fur – easily create realistic fur, short hair, wool, and grass on NURBS, subdivision surfaces, or polygonal models. Maya Live – combine 2D and 3D live-action with 3D elements. Maya Live provides greater flexibility, a fast-integrated 2D Tracker, and an interactive Root Frame Solver. Maya Hair – create, style, and render fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Make any NURBS curve dynamic for use in advanced character rigging and effects.

Autodesk 3ds max
3ds max™ for Windows® is the world’s best-selling professional 3D modeling, animation and rendering software for creating visual effects, character animation and next generation game development. 3ds max delivers a fully collaborative 3D environment and new high-speed interactive rendering. Its completely customizable and extensible architecture allows for absolute artistic freedom.

Autodesk Mudbox
Mudbox is a friendly sculpting, detailing, and design program developed by three experienced cg artists, a group of whiz programmers, and a beta team composed of some of the planet's top vfx and gaming production companies and artists. It's a standalone application that, in our experience, slides smoothly into company pipelines and artist workflows.

Blender
Blender is a free powerfull 3D modeling, rendering, animation package.

Braid Art Labs groBoto
groBoto generates ultimate quality imagery in record time — with a workspace that doesn't overwhelm you with technical details. Instead of fighting with the software, you collaborate with it. You’ll find yourself creating imagery you never knew you had in you. groBoto is a great tool for anyone who wants to create professional 3D graphics and animation without pain.

Caligari trueSpace
trueSpace is used widely by 3D artists and animators and has gained industry recognition for advanced capabilities such as hybrid radiosity rendering and direct manipulation user interface.

DAZ Carrara 3D Express
Carrara 3D Express is the fun, affordable, and easy way to get into 3D. This software benefits from the research and development poured into Carrara 6's advanced environment, animation, and rendering tools, delivering sophisticated results at a fraction of the price. Despite its ease of entry, Carrara 3D Express is compatible with all the latest Carrara Pro plug-ins for extended capabilities and performance, and it's upgradeable to Carrara 6 Standard or Pro when you're ready for that next step. So start your exploration of the 3D universe with a tool that will deliver out-of-this-world results at a down-to-earth price.

DAZ Carrara
Carrara is a complete 3D solution for modeling, shading, scene building, animation, rendering, and special effects. Built for the creative professional who is advancing into the world of 3D, Carrara's open architecture allows you to customize the application with additional plug-ins for additional creative effects or functionality.

DAZ Carrara Pro
Carrara is a complete 3D solution for modeling, shading, scene building, animation, rendering, and special effects. Built for the creative professional who is advancing into the world of 3D, Carrara's open architecture allows you to customize the application with additional plug-ins for additional creative effects or functionality.

DAZ Hexagon
Hexagon introduces an evolutionary way to sculpt and to texture your models: Working like your favorite image editing tools, Hexagon software's brushes emancipate you from the topology of your meshes, and let you smoothly edit, refine and paint your models. Fully supporting all popular graphics tablets, such as the Wacom line, the new brush system offers numerous presets, and supports your own customized brushes and various parameters such as hardness, size, strength, opacity, blending, and more.

CB Model Pro
CB Model Pro was built around the idea that surfaces should be manipulated directly. The result is a very intuitive and highly productive tool for 3D content creation that seamlessly fits into the production pipeline. CB Model Pro was developed by the creators of Cosmic Blobs, the award-winning entry-level 3D graphics software.

EI Technology Group Amorphium Pro
Amorphium Pro combines conventional modeling with the ability to create 3D objects using real-time 2D brushes and design tools. If you're familiar with 2D image programs like Adobe Photoshop, then you'll be able to create professional 3D graphics in no time. Amorphium Pro eliminates painstaking wireframe editing and the horrific learning curve associated with traditional 3D programs. You can even use a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet to sculpt and paint your objects. Create an entire 3D scene or add graphical elements to Print designs, Web sites, or Multimedia projects.

EI Technology Group Animation System
Since 1987, ElectricImage has been pushing the limits of computer generated imagery. Creating a world class animation system for the Macintosh wasn't easy, and many thought it couldn't be done. Designed by visual effects artists, ElectricImage was made to handle the worst of what Hollywood could throw at it. ElectricImage is the first desktop 3D product to score major credits in such films as "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace", "Star Trek: First Contact", "The Mask" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." Television credits include "Star Trek Voyager," "The X-Files," "Dateline NBC," "Babylon 5," numerous other shows and commercials.

FreeDesign FreeDimension
FreeDimension is a remarkably intuitive and powerful 3D modeling system for concept design and creative art. The product, based on FreeDesign's patent-pending N-Sided-Surface (NSS) technology, is a radical departure from traditional 3D modeling products. NSS frees designers from the stranglehold that quadrilateral surfacing technologies like NURBS and Bezier surfaces have held on the design world (Read why). In contrast, NSS enables design freedom by allowing users to focus on the curve network of a model - similar to how one would sketch a design on paper. Numerous innovative tools are available to help shape curves and surfaces and to control surface tangency across curves. FreeDesign models are a fraction of the size of CAD counterparts and are ideal for communication and collaboration.

Gestel solidThinking MODELER
solidThinking MODELER is the breakthrough 3D modeling environment that delivers all the necessary tools for the creation of high-quality, manufacturable 3D models. Because productivity does not simply depend on the power of the tools you are provided with, solidThinking MODELER has been developed with the fundamental concept that the ease of use of the tools is equally important to their power. solidThinking MODELER lets you work in an intuitive and comfortable manner, allowing you to create complex scenes in the fastest way possible.

Gestel solidThinking MODELER XL
solidThinking MODELER XL provides a comprehensive modeling, analysis, reverse engineering environment for the most demanding industrial designer with engineering needs, or for the engineer seeking a matchless surfacing suite to work in harmony with other tools.

Gestel solidThinking DESIGN
solidThinking DESIGN is the professional surface modeling and rendering solution for industrial designers, style centers and CG artists available on Windows and Macintosh. solidThinking DESIGN is fully parametric: thanks to the exclusive Construction History, the designer has complete freedom to explore design alternatives and exploit creativity. Not only a Class-A surface modeler, solidThinking DESIGN lets you render your manufacturable models with unsurpassed photo-realism.

Gestel solidThinking VANTAGE
solidThinking VANTAGE is the high-end CAID solution for the most demanding industrial designer with engineering needs. The top version of solidThinking offers all the modeling and rendering features you can find in the DESIGN version plus some exclusive features such as Make Manifold, Associative Dimensioning, Plotting, advanced control of Tangency and Curvature Continuity (G2), and more.

Google SketchUp (free)
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

Google SketchUp Pro
SketchUp is a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. SketchUp was developed to combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media. Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation, the result is an interface that supports a dynamic, creative exploration of 3D form, material and light. SketchUp combines a compact yet robust tool-set with an intelligent guidance system that streamlines the 3D drawing process.

Hash Animation Master
Animation:Master, A cross-platform modeling, rendering and animation package that rivals high-end software costing thousands more for only $299!? Yes, it's true: "We make software even an artist can afford."

inivis AC3D
MetroModeler is a 3D modeling tool for creating 3D models of houses, buildings, streets, and cities. With this computer program, you can create 3D buildings and 3D cities many times faster than you can by using general-purpose 3D programs.

Luxology modo
modo delivers the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering in a single integrated and accelerated package for the Mac and PC. And now, modo also includes true 3D sculpting tools, item animation and network rendering! More than just features, modo is a truly elegant integration of technology, raw horsepower and refined workflow.

Martin Wengenmayer Cheetah3D
Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant (like a Cheetah) 3D modeler and renderer for MacOS X with a steep learning curve. It offers many tools from simple polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to boolean operations and Beziere splines. Cheetah3D also includes a basic raytracer which offer oversampling, bump mapping, anisotropic texture filtering, reflections and so on.

Maxon Cinema 4D
The CINEMA 4D family of products has everything to satisfy your professional 3D modeling, texturing, animating and rendering needs. CINEMA 4D is fast, stable, powerful and delivers dazzling imagery. CINEMA 4D offers customizable configuration suitable for any industry and all skill levels.

Maxon Cinema 4D XL
The CINEMA 4D XL Bundle includes advanced tools for professional users, including character animation functions and advanced rendering and particle features. The XL Bundle launches your 3D projects to the next level of realism and opens a wealth of new possibilities. If your 3D projects advance beyond hobby or casual use you should take a good look at the CINEMA 4D XL Bundle.

Maxon Cinema 4D Studio
Equip your production environment with the CINEMA 4D Studio Bundle and take advantage of all the power CINEMA 4D
has to offer. Your advanced 3D projects will come alive with the addition of hair and fur tools, dynamic simulations and non-photorealistic rendering. The CINEMA 4D Studio Bundle lets you unleash your creativity and enjoy 3D without limits.

NewTek LightWave
LightWave 3D has consistently dominated the television and film markets. The game development market is soon to follow. Designed for production use, LightWave boasts the industry's fastest most beautiful rendering engine, complete subdivision modeling, and an animation system built upon the worlds fastest, most accurate 3D Inverse Kinematics (IK) engine. You have found the application that delivers all the power you need today, the flexibility to expand tomorrow, and at a price the competition cannot beat. With radiosity, caustics, subdivision surface animation, Skelegons, thousands of enhancements, and an unsurpassed workflow, LightWave [9] is everything you need in an animation system.

Microspot interiors
Microspot interiors is a 3D design application that allows you to quickly visualize interior designs and create animations which can be recorded as movies and viewedby anyone with QuickTime. Interiors makes it simple to draw walls, with windows and doors and then add furniture, wallpaper, carpets and accessories from the library which contains over 1000 items. These items can be resized and the colors and textures customized using those supplied with Interiors or you can use your own. Interiors now supports import of 3DS files, so millions of different 3rd party objects may be imported for use in your designs.

Microspot Modeler
Microspot Modeler is an interactive 3D modeling application that makes it simple to create and render models in real world dimensions and make animations that can be recorded as movies and viewed by anyone with QuickTime. Microspot Modeler can be used on its own or as an ideal companion product for Microspot Interiors enabling you to produce your own furniture items and accessories to add to the items already supplied with Interiors. Modeler now supports import of 3DS files, so millions of different 3rd party objects may be imported for use in your designs. Modeler has six simple and four more complex modeling tools to create basic shapes and a 3D text tool. These shapes can then be changed using modifier tools and further enhanced using color, lighting and textures. There are twenty one palettes that allow you to change your viewpoint, add and modify textures and colors, change shapes, align objects, set your rendering options and control your animations.

Nevercenter Silo
Silo introduces new tools and concepts to 3D modeling, without making them gimmicky in the name of trying to make the program more "intuitive." At the same time it incorporates the tools that have proven themselves most useful over the history of computer graphics, so the program will feel familiar but more straightforward to experienced modelers. The concept of subdivision surfaces has been expanded to all geometry, for example, so users can subdivide or partially subdivide a line segment used to create a path extrusion or a lathe object. Moreover, Silo doesn't distinguish between polygon objects, subdivision objects, and paths. Everything can be subdivided or unsubdivided at the quick press of a button, and if a sequence of edges forms a path or a profile it can then be used as if it were a path or a profile for an extrusion or a lathe.

New Wave Systems Pilot3D
Pilot3D is the lowest priced, full-featured, relational trimmed NURB curve and surface 3D modeling program on the market, with features not found in any other software, at any price. If you want complete shape control over your curves and surfaces, you need this easy-to-use program. Let Pilot3D be your primary 3D modeling program or use it as an add-on to your existing modeling software. Pilot3D will easily guide you into the world of complex curve and surface design.

Pixologic ZBrush
With ZBrush, you can take a classic, painterly approach, or really dig in and sculpt. Either way, the images you create –- from the very first day -- are simply amaZing! ZBrush's allows you to paint with a variety of materials -- from plastic to chrome, wood to reptilian skin -- and includes many adjustable attributes: ambient, specular, diffuse, transparency, metallicity and more.

Pixels PIXELS 3D
PIXELS 3D not only provides a great introduction to 3D graphics and animation, it has many of the powerful tools that pros use to make file-quality effects. Studio interface is intuitive and fun to use, and its icredibly reasonable price make it by far the best value on the mac.

Punch! ViaCAD 2D/3D
Whether your designing furniture, jewelry, consumer products, or mechanical parts, ViaCAD provides an environment that lets you focus on the design and not the software.  The innovative user interface allows you to work freely in 3D with the intuitive snaps and intelligent work planes.  Combined with the innovative tool prompts, hints, and online help, even the novice designer can quickly get up to speed with ViaCAD.

Punch! ViaCAD Pro
Whether your designing furniture, jewelry, consumer products, or mechanical parts, ViaCAD Pro provides an environment that lets you focus on the design and not the software.  The innovative user interface allows you to work freely in 3D with the intuitive snaps and intelligent work planes.  Combined with the innovative tool prompts, hints, and online help, even the novice designer can quickly get up to speed with ViaCAD Pro.

Punch! Software Shark
Shark is the industry’s first modeling application totally focused on conceptual and preliminary design for those requiring precision content for 2D/3D digital models.  Shark is a full featured package uniquely positioned to provide solutions that address versatile modeling practices, photorealistic rendering, animation, and precision drafting capabilities all within one seamlessly integrated package.  

Punch! Software Shark FX
Shark is the industry’s first modeling application totally focused on conceptual and preliminary design for those requiring precision content for 2D/3D digital models.  Shark is a full featured package uniquely positioned to provide solutions that address versatile modeling practices, photorealistic rendering, animation, and precision drafting capabilities all within one seamlessly integrated package.  

raindrop Geomagic Studio
Geomagic Studio is a must-have tool for people working with traditional CAD, CAE, and CAM applications. Geomagic Studio 3.1's improved color controls and automatic template alignment features expand your ability to quickly and accurately create, edit, export, and output high-quality, manufacturable NURBS surfaces. Geomagic Studio is a tool for the digital age. And, as is the case with most great tools, users in different industries are finding some very innovative ways to work smarter, faster, and better.

Realsoft 3D
'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modeling, rendering, animation and simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, was famous for its powerful and innovative tools. Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an easy.

Reinhard Epp Software CyberMotion 3D-Designer
Wherever we look, we encounter virtual worlds. Whether in Hollywood or daily advertisements, the world that is presented to the viewer will be a mainly artificial creation. At last, you too can create these surreal worlds at home, practice inside or outside architecture, design products or promotional logos and films or build your own virtual worlds using the build in landscape designer and atmospheric background models. All the modules that you need to generate, model and manipulate, animate and represent the three-dimensional world are integral parts of the CyberMotion 3d-software. CyberMotion provides a high quality rendering output using raytracing and up-to-date global illumination algorithms like Ambient Occlusion and Photon Mapping. The possibili ties to define object surfaces, light conditions and backgrounds are almost inexhaustible - visual libraries and fast preview windows in the main dialogs invite to experiment and play around with this vast functionality. Complex 3D animations can be set up very easily - you can animate all objects, camera and light settings, backgrounds, fire, water and even clouds and fog in the atmosphere. You can arrange objects in hierarchies to animate jointed models or robots and easily position joints with the help of Inverse Kinematics. And with the up to date Skin and Bones technology even character animation is available with CyberMotion. Call your own heros and monsters into being, CyberMotion gives you all the tools you need to do it.

Robert McNeels Rhino
Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine.

Sidefx Houdini Select
Houdini Select is a value-priced package for modeling and non-character animation. Designed for visualization, modeling and animating non-character objects, Houdini Select features all of the power of the Houdini architecture. Rendering support is provided through the Mantra renderer. Inclouding Modeling, Animation, Texturing , and Rendering.

Sidefx Houdini Escape
Houdini Escape is a comprehensive modeling and character animation package. It is ideal for all character-based projects including fully-CG films and television series. The character tools in Houdini Escape have been refined for years in Houdini Master and are now available at a very affordable price. Inclouding Modeling, Character Animation, Texturing , and Rendering.

Sidefx Houdini Master
Houdini Master, the flagship product from Side Effects Software, is the ultimate tool for the creation of advanced visual effects. With capabilities spanning the entire production pipeline, Houdini Master delivers unparalleled possibilities and productivity to artists who wish to push the envelope of computer animation. Inclouding Modeling, Character Animation, Effects, Texturing , Compositing and Rendering.

Singular Inversions FaceGen Modeller
Stand-alone parametric face modelling software for Windows. With this technology, you can: Create highly realistic, or cartoony faces at random from any race, gender and adult age group.

Smith Micro Poser
Poser is the ultimate 3D-character design and animation tool for artists and animators. Create 3D Figures using a diverse collection of ready-to-use 3D human and animal models. Poser's innovative interface makes figure design, posing and animating fast and easy. Map facial photos, grow and style dynamic hair, and create dynamic cloth to add extraordinary realism to your figure.

Smith Micro Shade
Shade is a full-scale 3D geometric modeling, rendering and animation program for all levels of computer users. Its intuitive user interface makes it easy to use, not only for experts but also for beginners. Its robust and easy-to-use modeling with Bezier Curves and Surfaces, various lifelike environmental settings, and photo-realistic ray-traced rendering enable you to freely, quickly and effectively create any 3D shape you can imagine. It is the ideal product for graphic design, architectural design, industrial design, 3D animation, film & video, and other related fields.

Smith Micro Shade Pro
The personal model of the Shade series is a low cost - high performance choice for SOHO and personal use, including all the basic features of Shade Professional. It also supports plug-ins and scripting that allow unlimited function extension. Because the user interface is the same, you can easily shift to the Professional model as the need arises.

Smith Micro Amapi 3D
Since 1993, Amapi 3D has offered designers an innovative approach to 3D modeling. This makes the creation and editing of complex geometric surfaces easier, by offering a large selection of advanced tools, such as NURBS, polygonal curves and Gordon surfaces. Thanks to its customizable interface, Amapi™ 3D is the 3D modeling tool that meets the demands of professional designers, while still being easy enough for beginners to use. Amapi 3D has a large number of application fields: industrial design, packaging, architecture, illustration, multimedia, video games, matte backgrounds for films and television.

SOFTIMAGE|XSI Foundation
XSI Foundation is hands-down the most complete entry-level 3D animation package available. It's packed with professional-grade features and powered by the XSI Gigapolygon core so it doesn't slow you down. Whether you're new to 3D, a long-time enthusiast or a freelance artist looking for an affordable solution, XSI Foundation is ideal for you.

SOFTIMAGE|XSI Essentials
SOFTIMAGE|XSI is the most advanced 3D animation software for games, film and television. Now you can model, animate and render with unparalleled performance. The XSI Gigapolygon core, capable of handling massively detailed models with millions of polygons, is the number one reason why leading entertainment companies are switching their next generation projects to XSI. Built on the newest code base and designed for the way the artist thinks, XSI empowers you to bring your creative vision to life.

SOFTIMAGE|XSI Advanced
SOFTIMAGE|XSI is the most advanced 3D animation software for games, film and television. Now you can model, animate and render with unparalleled performance. The XSI Gigapolygon core, capable of handling massively detailed models with millions of polygons, is the number one reason why leading entertainment companies are switching their next generation projects to XSI. Built on the newest code base and designed for the way the artist thinks, XSI empowers you to bring your creative vision to life.

Strata 3D CX
Setting up your scene is just the beginning. Now you can orchestrate your objects to bend, twist, stretch, spin and morph. Add inverse kinematics to make your models walk, move or fly. And control it all with the full function project window to access every element of every model.

Triple Squid Software Design MoI
MoI (Moment of Inspiration) is a new 3D modeling/CAD program for designers and artists. Offering a blend of precision and freeform drawing tools, it sports a unique user interface that operates seamlessly with a pen tablet (a mouse is also supported).

Wings 3D
Wings 3D is a open-source polygon mesh modeller inspired by Nendo from Nichimen/Izware. It is relased under a BSD style license.

Photo Pos Pro
Photo Pos Pro is the most affordable Image Editing software. No other program offers so many features at such a low price.

Sothink SWF Quicker
Sothink SWF Quicker is an easy yet powerful tool to author professional Flash movies. It gives access to enhance Flash creation.

Dan Ritchie Dogwaffle
Project Dogwaffle is affordable paint software for PC with built-in, user-defined, animated and fractal particle brushes.

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