10 Best Animation software for

WindowsK.Javubar Sathick

Assistant Professor,CAB.S.A.University,Chennai

1. Aurora 3D Animation Maker Aurora 3D Animation Maker is one of the most popular animation software. This software provides a lot of features to create endless animation effects in your

movie. You can add watermark to videos and images with special effect provided by this

software.

1. Aurora 3D Animation Maker

2. Blender

Blender is being created by hundreds of people around the globe including professionals, studio artists, scientists, VFX experts, animators, game artists, modders, hobbyist, students and many more.

Blender is fully free and open source 3D creation software.

2. Blender

3. Anime Studio

Anime Studio is one of the best animation products in market. Anime Studio provides a rich set of features to make animation easy. You can put your animation dreams with ease and style. It gives you the ability to deliver professionally animated cartoons. You can have lots of fun with while working with Anime Studio.

3. Anime Studio

4. Cinema 4D Studio

Cinema 4D Studio provides the user friendly and intuitive environment.

You can create character rigs and advanced character animation with its character tools.

This software seems to be the best friend of motion graphics artist. This software has been designed from the ground up with the motion

graphics in mind.

4. Cinema 4D Studio

5. Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya is 3D animation software. You can create 3D characters, scenery that would be perfect for

movies and games. It offers much attractive simulation material. This software provides many amazing features that are easy to apply

and produce very realistic behaviour.

5. Autodesk Maya

6. Autodesk Softimage

Autodesk Softimage is 3D animation software used for professional use in broadcast television, game development and cinema.

It is stand alone animation software package with the unique features and tools.

This software is one of the best options for modelers and animators. Autodesk provides online tutorials to help new users with this

software.

6. Autodesk Softimage

7. Modo

Modo is professional 3D animation software with amazing features for sculpting, modelling and painting 3D models.

Modo adopts a unique design with minimum number of tools in order to run more efficiently.

Modo is a good application for artists and designers in order to bridge the gap between the real life photography and computer generated images

7. Modo

8. Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max is one of the best 3D animation softwares that based upon polygon modelling.

This software allows you to create 3D images like cubes, pyramids, cone and teapots which serve as the bases for your models.

This software is designed to manage big projects. This software is very easy to ease once you know how to use this software. This software will admire you when you will work on video game or movies. This software also allows downloading plugins in order to extend its capabilities.

8. Autodesk 3ds Max

9. Autodesk MotionBuilder

MotionBuilder is another 3D animation software for virtual production. This software helps you to refine and manipulate the data efficiently

and with great reliability. MotionBuilder offers a highly responsive and interactive environment

where you can capture, edit and play back complex characters animation.

9. Autodesk MotionBuilder

10. Houdini

Houdini is one of the best 3D animation softwares used for its high quality graphics pipeline. Houdini gives features for modelling, texturing, rigging and animated 3D models.

You can create the world of your own 3D content or you can fuse your 3D contents into the real world images and footages.

It has procedural and node based interface that makes it good at integrating plugins.

10. Houdini