Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Autodesk Maya

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D 3D Game Engine 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Architecture CAD Digital Drawing And Painting Game Development Game Engine Graphic Design Software Illustration

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Autodesk Maya are Unity, Wings 3D, and Inkscape. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Unity Landing Page
1

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Wings 3D Landing Page
2

Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Digital Drawing And Painting #3D Modeling
Inkscape Landing Page
3

Inkscape

Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 483 social mentions
Bforartists Landing Page
4

Bforartists

Bforartists is a fork of Blender.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #Digital Drawing And Painting 1 social mentions
Blockbench Landing Page
5

Blockbench

Modern, open source 3D model editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Game Development #Digital Drawing And Painting 13 social mentions
FreeCAD Landing Page
6

FreeCAD

An open-source parametric 3D modeler
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #CAD 2 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
7

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
Mitsuba Landing Page
8

Mitsuba

Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system in the style of PBRT, from which it derives much inspiration.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #Game Development
CryENGINE Landing Page
9

CryENGINE

The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
appleseed Landing Page
10

appleseed

appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #3D Modeling 1 social mentions
GIMP Landing Page
11

GIMP

GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Photo Editing #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 59 social mentions
LibreCAD Landing Page
12

LibreCAD

An open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #3D Modeling 19 social mentions