Commercial & Free 3D Design Software Reviews, Ratings and Voting

After you read this article, you will find out:

  • What is 3d design software all about?
  • What are the top rating commercial 3d design software packages?
  • What is the popular commercial 3d design among many other?
  • What are commercial and free 3d design programs which available to choose?

What Is 3D Design Software All About?

3D design software, sometime we call 3D graphic software, is powerful program and has been used by visualization professionals, 3D designer, game developers, and visual effects artists in film, television, video game, scientific production. 3D design software is most expensive software packages compare to other type of software.

Some packages cost thousands of dollars. There are more than several companies offer the huge 3D software packages which contain features such as modeling, shading, texturing, dynamic, lighting, animation, rendering and more based on the packages. You can find both commercial and free 3D design software version in the following section:

Commercial 3D Design Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using 3d design software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the 3d design program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name
User Rating
Autodesk 3ds Max (3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Autodesk Maya (2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Cinema 4D (3 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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Cheetah3D (3 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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LightWave 3D (5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5)
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modo (2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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SoftImage XSI (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Free 3D Design Software Ratings

Read above note before do following rating.

Software Name
User Rating
Blender (3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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trueSpace (1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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Commercial 3D Design Software Voting

These are the 3D design software programs which available on the market today.  And as experienced user, what is your favorite 3D design software? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing 3D design software by finding out which is the popular 3D design software package. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

  1. You can only vote for one time.
  2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
  3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

What Is Your Favorite 3D Design Software?

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Commercial 3D Design Software Reviews

Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max is one of most powerful 3D design software, especially in modeling for low polygon for video game industry. The software has many features for 3D graphic design, including modeling, rendering, animation, texturing and more. 3ds Max developed by Autodesk Inc.

Autodesk Maya

Is very popular package as 3D graphic design software that contains many features such as modeling, rendering, animation, dynamic, stimulation, texturing, paints effect and so on. It mostly use in film as well as video game industry. This software published by Autodesk Inc.

Cinema 4D

Cinema is one of friendly 3D design software that can be used for professional animation, modeling, rendering and texturing. The developer of this software is MAXON Computer GmbH. The software is available for Windows, Linux and Mac operating system.

Cheetah3D

Cheetah3D is a small 3D design software package with also cheaper price compare to big packages such as Maya, 3ds Max, XSI and LightWave 3D. Cheetah is the solution for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering for Macintosh platform.

LightWave 3D

LightWave 3D also is large 3D design software package as Maya and 3ds Max for modeling, animation, rendering, particle FX and dynamics. This graphic software package is available both for Windows and Mac platform.

modo

modo is another 3D design software for modeling, painting, animation, sculpturing and rendering. modo is available for both Windows and Mac. The software is used by architects, industrial designers, game developers and package designers.

SoftImage XSI

SoftImage XSI is one among the powerful 3D graphic software for professional in film, television and video game production. The software allow user to model, animate, shade, texture, render and collaborate (work as team).

Free 3D Design Software Review

Blender

Among free 3D design software packages, Blender is fully functional one. With Blender user can do 3D modeling, character rigging, shading, animation, rendering, physics and particles, imaging and compositing. Blender is free open source 3D content creation under the GNU General Public License. Blender is available for several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.

trueSpace

trueSpace is now available to download for free. trueSpace is the solution for 3D modeling, light, animation, and rendering. TrueSpace is 3D design software package that available for Windows user.

Tip: Remember when you want to use 3D design software, you computer system requirement is very important especially your computer graphic card. Most of 3D design software need higher computer system requirement than other types of software. It should be 2GB RAM, 512MB VGA, and 3.2 MHz for CPU or higher to run this software smoothly.





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