Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Houdini

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D 3D Game Engine 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Digital Drawing And Painting Game Development Game Engine Illustration Interactive Exhibits Prototyping Tools VJ

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Houdini 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
Mitsuba Landing Page
5

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
Silo Landing Page
6

Silo

Silo is a focused 3D modeling application with the ability to effortlessly switch between organically sculpting high-poly models and precisely controlling hard-edged surfaces.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #Digital Drawing And Painting 3 social mentions
Processing Landing Page
7

Processing

C++ and Java programming at the speed of thought.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #VJ #Interactive Exhibits 333 social mentions
appleseed Landing Page
8

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 #Game Development 1 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
9

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
OpenFrameworks Landing Page
10

OpenFrameworks

openFrameworks
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #VJ #Interactive Exhibits 31 social mentions
FreeCAD Landing Page
11

FreeCAD

An open-source parametric 3D modeler
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #CAD 2 social mentions
Cinder Landing Page
12

Cinder

CINDER PROVIDES A POWERFUL, INTUITIVE TOOLBOX for programming graphics, audio, video, networking...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #VJ #Interactive Exhibits 14 social mentions