Top 15 vSwarm Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Render your 3D animations faster

Using Blender or Luxrender and need some serious horsepower for a render, but don’t own a renderfarm? Well good news! vSwarm is attempting to bring the power of tools like Seti@Home and Folding@Home to render farms, allowing users worldwide to install a simple client on their machine and harnessing their unused compute time.

Currently in alpha, just install the client and let it run to start earning credits that you can then cash in to use for your own render jobs! It’s still a bit quirky and in early alpha, but it does work (most of the time). Hit up their site for registration details, downloads, and instructions.

1. Electric Image Animation System (EIAS)

Electric Image Animation System (EIAS) The Electric Image Animation System (EIAS) is an eminent 3D animation and rendering package. Available for the Mac and PC, with it, you can texture, animate and render your 3D scenes. Extraordinarily, EIAS includes the ability to network render to an unlimited number of computers across both platforms. EIAS presents......

2. messiahStudio

messiahStudio messiahStudio is a powerful animation & rendering software package specifically designed to handle the most demanding character animation & rendering needs. It has been quietly used in feature films, commercials, games, music videos and print ads for over 10 years; and is now one of the fastest growing CG packages......

3. Visual Designer 3D

Visual Designer 3D Visual Designer is one handy yet efficient tool for 3D real-time photorealistic rendering, on both CPU and GPU (with AMD & NVIDIA GPU support). It is one easy solution to the complicated parameters of the so-called “specialized tools” as it offers an absolutely surprising amalgam of ergonomics and improved workflow.......

4. Artlantis Studio

Artlantis Studio Artlantis Studio is the ideal tool for anyone who wants very high resolution rendering not only for images, but for QuickTime VR Panoramas, Objects and animations as well.Artlantis Studio the fastest stand-alone 3D rendering and animation application designed especially for architects and designers, is a leader in radiosity, also known......

5. Poser

Poser Poser is a 3D rendering software package for the posing, animating and rendering of 3D polymesh human and animal figures. Poser Pro is a advanced version of Poser that offers professional-level application integration as well as a 64-Bit render engine and network rendering support. The Poser Pro bottom line -......

6. MachStudio Pro

MachStudio Pro Realtime 3D graphics on your desktopMachStudio Pro revolutionizes the 3D visualization production pipeline by placing the power of real-time graphics processing at your fingertips. Leveraging the horsepower of off-the-shelf professional graphics processing units (GPUs) and an innovative real-time rendering engine, it delivers a dynamic, feature-rich, non-linear work-space for creating superior......

7. PortableYou

PortableYou PortableYou provides application developers the technology to empower end-users to instantly generate customizable 3D avatars from photos of their face. User can then add and share these avatars seamlessly across enabled third-party applications. No other technology in the market provides completely automated, high quality, customizable 3D heads via an open......

8. Autodesk FBX Review

Autodesk FBX Review FBX Review is a lightweight, standalone software tool for viewing 3D assets and baked animations quickly and efficiently. A free utility, FBX Review lets users view 3D content without using a 3D authoring tool to help speed up asset sharing and review for development teams.Quickly and Easily Review 3D ModelsUsers......

9. Bakery Relight

Bakery Relight Bakery Religh is a relighting and rendering suite tailored for the production of 3D feature films.The software has been designed from the get-go to hone the lighter's workflow. Instead of having a 3D program coupled with a separate renderer, Bakery Religh propose constant interactive visual feedback in the rendering engine......

10. Shade 3D

Shade 3D Shade 3D modeling, animation, rendering and effects is a complete, integrated solution for 3D artists, designers and film makers. With over 20 years of history and over 200,000 users worldwide, with every release, Shade refines its ease of use and expands its ability to deliver stunning graphics and animation. The......

11. RenderMan

RenderMan PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.It primarily uses the REYES algorithm but is also fully capable of doing ray tracing and global illumination.PRMan is produced by Pixar Animation Studios and used to render all of their in-house 3D animated movie productions.Pixar's RenderMan has been......

12. Artlantis Render

Artlantis Render Artlantis Render is designed more for those who seek very high quality rendering (architects, interior designers, urban planners, landscapers, exhibition organizers, exhibitors, etc.). Artlantis, the fastest stand-alone 3D rendering and animation application designed especially for architects and designers, is a leader in radiosity, also known as global illumination. Artlantis is......

13. Cycles Renderer

Cycles Renderer Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011. It was originally developed by Brecht van Lommel, and is maintained by an active team of developers today. Since its release as Apache 2.0 (permissive open source), it’s also in use by other 3D tools, such as......

14. form•Z

form•Z form•Z pro includes all of the features found in form•Z Jr plus many advanced modeling tools, STEP and IGES translators, animation, layout, network rendering and interface customization.Available for OS X 10.7+ and Windows 7/8/10.Solid and Surface Modeling tools including Booleans, NURBS and Subdivision Surfaces.Native support for 64 architecture on OS......

15. CreaToon

CreaToon CreaToon is a free easy to use animation program. It is different from other programs however, because you don't draw the objects in the program, it is a cutout based animation program. What that means is you make the parts in something like Gimp or Inkscape, and then you import......