The free and lowcost alternatives for 3D work

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Open source and free software are changing the software landscape. For doing 3D work, there are in fact free and low cost alternatives to expensive applications.

Here are some of the free or low cost equivalent

3DS Max, Maya alternative. There is only one that we can think of. And that is Blender 3D

Zbrush, Mudbox alternative. Sculptris is a very nice free alternative. Blender also have sculpting option

Texturing software alternative. GIMP can be a viable 2D texture creating software.

Landscape and terrain generator. Vue is the best of such software in the market. But we will recommend Carrara as a low cost but excellent alternative.

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