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[ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

[v2020.0] LightWave 3D – Fast, easy and proven 3D computer graphics software

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LightWave 3D (LightWave for short) is a cost-effective 3D animation production software for Windows and Mac operating systems, developed by NewTek in 1990. It is widely used in film, television, game, animation, web page, advertising, printing and many other fields. And it is considered to be one of the few heavyweight 3DCG software in the industry that not only has a long history, but also comes with many successful cases.

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[ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

Sculptris – Do advanced digital sculpting like playing with mud

Pixologic claims to be the maker of Sculptris, but actually it had no choice but acquired it in 2010 due to the huge threats from Sculptris, and applied Sculptris’ advantages to ZBrush, so as to maintain the market and position of ZBrush. Otherwise, if Sculptris’ inventor Tomas Pettersson had chosen to stick to go his own way (although that would have been tough) rather than join into the Pixologic team, then this revolutionary software could have quickly eliminated ZBrush. In other words, it was his own shortcomings that killed his invention, not the competition from Pixologic.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

Wings 3D – Powerful yet easy-to-use advanced subdivision modeler

To learn 3D modeling, most people will recommend 3ds Max and Maya these trump-level of 3D computer graphics software to you. But what I want to emphasize again here is – the best may not be the most suitable for you or the one that best meets your needs. For those who are interested in modeling but don’t have much time to learn modeling techniques systematically, it is unwise to choose them. This case, we need a simpler and more user-friendly modeling tool such like Wings 3D.

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Industry & Professional

[v12.25] Polygon Cruncher – 3D meshes simplifying, optimizing edge tool

If a 3D scene has a large number of polyhedral models, not only will this cause the reading and displaying speed of the entire scene to become significantly slower, but also the file size will become too large. Fortunately, the mesh of 3D models often comes with a lot of unnecessarily and complex geometries that can be simplified without compromising the model’s detail and quality. At this point, we can ask help for Polygon Cruncher.

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Blender Master Class HD PDF

As an open-source, cross-platform, and all-around 3D computer graphics software, Blender offers from modeling, animation, materials, rendering to audio processing, video clipping, and a series of other animation related solutions. At present, it has been widely used by artists and designers from all over the world. However, in the way of turning our ideas into reality with this great tool, even seasoned designers will also feel challenging. This case, a well-crafted guide book is necessary.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

MakeHuman – Free and open-source 3D characters maker

MakeHuman is a free and open-source realistic 3D human characters modeling tool for illustrations, animations, games, or Zbrush/Mudbox sculpting on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. It was developed (before version 0.9, written in only C; after version 1.0, in C and Python; from version 1.0.2, only in Python) by a community of programmers, artists, and academics with passion, who are interested in 3D modeling of characters and take contribution for a better world as its purpose.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

Blender – Free, open-source, cross-platform and full-featured 3D creation suite

If you are a 3D animation enthusiast, you probably have tried many 3D production software such like Maya, 3ds Max, most of which are extremely expensive for individuals and small businesses. Fortunately, there is an alternative that can compete with them on functionality and performance, and is free, open-source, cross-platform, very lightweight and full-featured 3D creation program – Blender (from Holland), which provides a series of solutions for producing animated short films, including modeling, animations, materials, rendering, audio processing, video clipping, and more.

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