Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to RenderMan

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D 3D Game Engine 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Game Development Game Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to RenderMan are appleseed, Mitsuba, and MoonRay. 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.

appleseed Landing Page
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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
Mitsuba Landing Page
2

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
MoonRay Landing Page
3

MoonRay

MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #Game Development 1 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
4

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Horde3D Landing Page
5

Horde3D

Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine that is written to create a graphics engine that offers visual effects expected in next-generation games that has a intuitive interface accessible from any programming language.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Game Development #3D Rendering