This application can fool applications into thinking you have a more powerful graphics card, perform software TnL and force applications to use lower graphics settings.
3DVIA aims at being the YouTube of 3D media. It allows sharing and rendering 3D models on your browser, if you use Windows. You can upload 3D models made with an external application (eg. Blender, 3dsMax, SolidWorks, etc.), or you can create and upload your model with 3DVIA Shape.
Amapi Pro offers a unique environment for the conception and creation of high-end 3D models for use by product designers, architects and advanced 3D modelers.
Anaglyph Maker generates 3D images that can be viewed with red/cyan, red/green, or red/blue 3D anaglyph glasses, interleave LC shutter glasses, or 3D LCD glasses.
Maya Unlimited is the top of the line of the Maya persuasion. Maya is the most powerful and widely used animation and modelling program in the industry.
Whether you're a pro or a beginning artist, Bryce is an easy way to create, explore and animate extraordinary imagery. It's perfect for multimedia, video and the Web.
Canoma is Mac/Win software that allows fast creation of photorealistic 3D models from one or more photographs. The models are geometrically very simple, and their purpose is not to replace any CAD or detailed 3D model, but to augment it, for example with realistic 3D context or to allow very fast 3D prototyping (source: www.camona.com).
CINEMA 4D is a fully integrated 3D-modeling, animation and rendering package for Macintosh and Windows.It is well known for its surprisingly fast and photorealistic-quality raytracer.
Crazybump is an excellent program which can take a plain texture and extrapolate normal maps and the like in very little time, making it much easier to create a realistic texture with depth in your 3D program.
CrazyTalk is an innovative and easy-to-use software tool for creating animated talking characters and digital hosts for DVD projects, websites, and e-mail messaging from your own photograph or digital image collection. Animate any person, animal, or illustration with CrazyTalk's easy-to-use professional editing tools.
3D Sketching, sculpting and texturing application. Some rendering functionality. Not a polygon modeler, but polygon meshes can be sculpted and textured.
Daz|Studio aims to be a free (as in cheap) clone of Curious' Labs Poser, with several enhancements to the user interface. Models made in Poser are compatible with Daz|Studio.
DeleD is a lowcost modeler program designed for lowpolygon static modeling and level design. It has lowpoly routines, CSG and a lightmapper that calculates static light and shadowing very accuarate. DeleD is very easy to use and suited for beginners.
Provides a complete software development environment including full source code and tools used to create models and levels for the game Enemy Territory Quake Wars.
Faceworx is a very user-friendly program that guides the user in modeling a 3D representation of a human's head. The user provides the program with two 2D pictures (front and side), and the program creates a 3D model using keypoints. Models can be exported using the popular OBJ format to import into other 3D modeling programs.
Freeworld3D is a fully interactive real-time 3D terrain editor and world editor specifically designed for game development. FreeWorld3D gives you the ability to produce complete 3D terrain, worlds and environments in a matter of no time.
Discreet's gmax is a free 3D modeling and animation tool based on their award-winning 3ds max. gmax allows gamers to create their own in-game content for gmax enabled games
Open Inventor is a scene graph library for 3d Rendering. The Open Inventor Tools allow to convert and show open inventor and VRML files on the screen. The viewer is based on OpenGL.
kHED is a very lightweight and simple to learn (even for beginners) 3D polygon-based modeling tool, but has some very powerful features that are intuitive.
Software for 3D Landscape Design, with a large variety of plants and trees, fences, lightining and exterior furnitures, acessories and buildings. Comes with a terrain editor for creating plateaus, slopes and paths and a 3DTrueView render for optimizing the final image of the project.
Metasequoia is a 3D polygon modeling software for 3D computer graphics and video game development. It enables the user to create complex and organic objects, like humans or creatures, and works with a light response.
With Simply 3D, professional 3D graphics and animations are within your reach. Simply 3D provides unparalleled ease of use, complete customization, and professional quality output.
MikuMikuDance, commonly abbreviated to MMD, is a freeware animation program that lets users animate and create 3D animation movies, originally produced for the movies of Vocaloid Hatsune Miku.
This is a utility which hooks into the Direct3D calls generated by Morrowind and does additional processing to the scene. Renders distant land mass and extends the clipping plane, does post-processing using HDR, Bloom, or other pixel shaders. Makes the graphics 10x better judging by screenshots (haven't seen it in successful action yet).
Nendo is a subdivision modeller, which means you add primitives and reshape them according basic operations that involve subdivision of edges or faces.
Fur Rendering Benchmark is a small OpenGL benchmark focused on fur rendering. The rendering algorithm is highly multipass (100 passes) and each pass (or layer) uses a GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) vertex / pixel shader to make the hairs finer and finer. To increase the fur realism, two dynamic lights are used for self shadowing. The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration. The benchmark also includes a GPU Burner mode (stability test).
Particle Illusion is a standalone application that allows you to quickly and easily create amazing effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects -- literally hundreds of different types of effects.
Pivot makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages. An example animation is included.
Pro Motion is one of the best tools available for drawing and animating sprites, bitmaps, tiles, and other types of 2D art assets. It is used by many professional companies and schools to create games and teach animation.
Quest3D is a 3D engine and development platform that is generally used for architecture, product and design visuals, computer games, training software, and simulations in virtual reality.
Ray Dream Studio was a fun and affordable 3d modeling and animation program that was discontinued in the mid-2000s after a series of crazy corporate breakups and buyouts.
Rthdribl is a technical demo of "High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting". DirectX(R) 9.0 high-precision texture formats and version-2.0 of Pixel Shader represent real-time true HDR rendering. Light sources and reflected or refracted lights that are very bright cause Glare.
Sculptris is a Freeware 3d Sculpting Aplication like ZBrush or 3d Coat. It allows to simply working with 3d Objekts like with Clay and has a very User friendy Interface.
ShaderDesigner is a shader IDE for creating vertex and fragment shaders in OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL). IDE created by the now-defunct Typhoon Labs, it's still useful application for creating, compiling, testing and editing OpenGL Shaders.
Toon Boom Animate allows for film quality animation in both traditional and digital methods. Using innovative tools and other artist friendly features, it allows you to create amazing cartoons in seconds, or produce massive productions with ease.
Traditional frame-by-frame animation suite. Drawings are represented in vector form, and can be exported to SWF or SVG (with a plugin). Also can output to Quicktime, which is also a runtime dependency of the program.
Vectorian Giotto is a Free Alternative for Adobe Flash, a very complete program (little basic but complete) to create flash animations with almost nothing of knowledge.
After its enourmous success on the market V-Ray has become the renderer of choice in big production studios accross the world. Feature film productions, multi-million dollar game productions, huge and small architectual visualizations have trusted their visuals to V-Ray. Wouldn't you too?
World Machine is a unique procedural terrain generator unlike any terrain software you may have encountered. World Machine combines powerful terrain effects, a graph-based user interface, and fast, dynamic previews to allow for the rapid creation of extremely varied and realistic terrain.
