10 Best Rendering Software by Price: Render Within Your Budget

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LuxCoreRender

LuxCoreRender is an open source-licensed, ray tracing rendering software tool that utilizes complex processes like subsurface scattering, volumetrics, and physically based materials to mimic the flow of natural light in physically accurate space (this type of rendering is called Physically Based Rendering, or PBR), making for convincing photorealistic final images.

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Radeon ProRender

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FurryBall

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Arnold

This unbiased CPU-based (now with GPU capability) rendering software, originally designed for Sony Pictures-owned VFX studio Imageworks, is now one of the most utilized software in the visual effects industry, used in over 300 studios around the world and the primary rendering engine for films like Gravity and Pacific Rim. It’s built to meet the demands of process-intensive computations that are used for feature-length films, animation, and VFX. Arnold is incredibly versatile and houses a plethora of features. Though not as fast as Redshift below, its speed is still quite exceptional allowing for real-time rendering, using a node-based material editor, a Physical Sky shader, and a very sophisticated Atmosphere Volume shader. A near all-in-one studio in a bottle, this software can be used with many of today’s leading 3D production software.

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V-Ray

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Maxwell Render

Well known for its realism and quality in the architecture community, Maxwell is an unbiased CPU/GPU-based rendering software that is geared toward industrial design and architectural visualization. Along with an incredible degree of hyper-realism, it also has an easy-to-use setup, which allows you to produce fantastic results with little fuss. The most recent iteration of this plugin allows for GPU rendering as well as CPU rendering, which helps streamline your workflow while not compromising your final render quality. However, it’s still experimental and can only be used with a CUDA-capable Nvidia graphics card. That minor caveat aside, this software, unlike Lumion below, can be utilized in almost all industry-standard CAD and 3D programs like 3ds Max and Maya as well as underused programs like Form-Z, Modo, and ArchiCAD.

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Redshift

Touted as the world’s first fully GPU-accelerated biased renderer by its developer, Redshift offers the flexibility and quality of CPU-based rendering with GPU-based speed. Unbiased engines tend to be very difficult for artists to render with as they are much more precise with their calculations regarding processes like lighting physics. However, Redshift is a biased engine, meaning there is much more freedom for the artist to get the desired render without having to overwork settings — meaning you can focus solely on creating. Redshift is easily integrated into programs such as Cinema 4D, Maya, and Houdini, making for very powerful workflows and beautiful results.

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Octane Render

Octane Render is a GPU-based renderer that handles processor-heavy algorithms with ease. It’s considered one of the fastest real-time render software plugins on the market to date. Making use of its interactive real-time viewport system, it smoothly speeds up your workflow by essentially displaying your final render as you work, edit and place materials, and frame compositions. It works as a standalone program, or it can be easily implemented as a plugin for many industry-standard programs including 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, and Blender just to name a few. An ideal contender for architectural visualization, this rendering software also boasts that along with its comprehensive interface yielding beautiful results fairly quickly, its processing speeds dwarf that of other GPU-based plugins by 10–50 times.

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Keyshot

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Lumion

Well known for its realism and quality in the architecture community, Maxwell is an unbiased CPU/GPU-based rendering software that is geared toward industrial design and architectural visualization. Along with an incredible degree of hyper-realism, it also has an easy-to-use setup, which allows you to produce fantastic results with little fuss. The most recent iteration of this plugin allows for GPU rendering as well as CPU rendering, which helps streamline your workflow while not compromising your final render quality. However, it’s still experimental and can only be used with a CUDA-capable Nvidia graphics card. That minor caveat aside, this software, unlike Lumion below, can be utilized in almost all industry-standard CAD and 3D programs like 3ds Max and Maya as well as underused programs like Form-Z, Modo, and ArchiCAD.

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