This page provides a list of 3D rendering software, the dedicated engines used for rendering computer-generated imagery. This is not the same as 3D modeling software, which involves the creation of 3D models, for which the software listed below can produce realistically rendered visualisations. Also not included are general-purpose packages which can have their own built-in rendering capabilities; these can be found in the List of 3D computer graphics software and List of 3D animation software. See 3D computer graphics software for more discussion about the distinctions.
| Title | License | Status | Developer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illumination Research (company) | ||||
| appleseed | [1] | appleseedhq Organization | ||
| RandomControl | ||||
| Paul Gregory | ||||
| Solid Angle, Autodesk, Sony Pictures Imageworks | ||||
| Discontinued | SplutterFish LLC | |||
| Diffuse Logic | ||||
| ASCON, C3D Labs | ||||
| Centileo | Centileo LLC | |||
| Chaos | ||||
| [2] | Blender Foundation | |||
| Dimension 5 Techs | ||||
| EEVEE | Blender Foundation | |||
| Enscape GmbH | ||||
| Robert McNeel & Associates | ||||
| Gelato | Discontinued | Nvidia Corporation | ||
| Walt Disney Animation Studios | ||||
| Reallusion | ||||
| Indigo Renderer | Glare Technologies | |||
| Ioannis Pantazopoulos | ||||
| Luxion Inc | ||||
| Light Tracer Render | Light Engine | |||
| Lumion Software | ||||
| Jean-Philippe Grimaldi (lead) | ||||
| Next Limit Technologies | ||||
| Discontinued | Nvidia Corporation | |||
| MoonRay | Dreamworks | |||
| Octane Render | OTOY Inc. | |||
| Pixar | ||||
| Pixie | Okan Arikan et Al. | |||
| The POV-Team | ||||
| AMD Radeon ProRender | AMD Inc. | |||
| Greg Ward | ||||
| Raylectron | SoftByte Labs, Inc. | |||
| Maxon | ||||
| SolidWorks Visualize | Dassault Systèmes | |||
| Adobe Inc. | ||||
| Sunflow | Inactive | Christopher Kulla | ||
| V-Ray | Chaos | |||
| YafaRay | YafaRay |