The best 3ds Max CAT alternatives

Mold suits game artists, motion designers, 3D hobbyists, students and studios looking to sculpt in a browser.

It suits Maya technical directors and animation production teams building character rigs.

Houdini suits 3D artists and production teams working in areas such as film, games, motion graphics, or virtual reality.

Rigify suits Blender users who need automatic character armatures and configurable animation controls.

Mesh2Motion may suit people creating animations for 3D models used in web projects or game engines.

It suits Unreal Engine users creating MetaHuman facial animation with a compatible iOS or Android device.

MakeHuman suits people creating customizable 3D human models for export or a Blender workflow.

Mesh2Rig suits Blender users preparing cloth, soft-body, rigid-body, or destruction animations for game development.

It suits Maya users who want to build rigs themselves with an automatic rigging system.

mGear suits animation and game studios working across film, real-time, and game production.

BlenRig suits Blender users rigging biped characters who want automated weighting tools and guided setup.

InstantRig suits 3D artists, animators, riggers, and generalists working in 3ds Max on keyframe animation.

Mixamo suits people preparing humanoid characters and animations for film, games, interactive projects, or illustration.

It serves robotics and AI labs, simulation teams, game and 3D studios, developers, and individual creators.

AccuRIG suits character artists who need to rig 3D meshes and export them to supported animation and 3D applications.