Best 3D Animation Software
Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries including the last 16 Academy Award winners for best visual effects use Autodesk Maya Software to design, visualize, and simulate their ideas before they are ever built or created. From blockbuster visual effects and buildings that create their own energy to electric cars and the batteries that power them, undoubtedly Autodesk 3DS max is used not only as the Best 3D Modelling Software but also as the Best 3D Rendering Software

- 3Ds Max
- Maya 3D
- Media & Entertainment
Industry Collection - Flame
- Golaem
Make a detailed model of your vision
Autodesk 3ds Max gives a detailed and adaptable toolkit for creating high-end designs with complete artistic flexibility making it the Best 3D modelling software.
- In games, create vast environments.
- Explore high-resolution architectural renderings
- Model Highly detailed interiors and objects
- With animation and visual effects, bring creatures and elements to life.

Create high-resolution scenes
The Arnold renderer is built-in and can handle more complicated characters, sceneries, and effects, making Autodesk 3ds Max the best 3D rendering software.
- Reduce time with interactive light mixing, color correction, and lens effects on the generated image using consolidated creative tools.
- With an artist-friendly ui and easy controls, you can get things done faster.
- Iterate and create high-quality renderings and variations in a shorter period.
With Autodesk 3ds Max, you can work faster and fulfil deadlines
3ds Max allows you to automate your workflow, allowing you to focus more on creativity.
- To scale content production, use 3ds Max as a compute engine.
- Accessible APIs can be used to extend built-in workflows.
- Boost productivity by speeding up manual processes.

Use cases
Rendering in real time for product design
Learn how to set up the scene and 3ds Max viewport for the best possible depiction.
Read Use CaseMaking a newborn velociraptor in 3D
Guga Baraldi, a 3D generalist artist, explains how his adorable Pet Birthday render came to be.
Read Use CaseMake precise 3D walkthroughs
Andrey Plaksin demonstrates how to utilise 3ds Max to build immersive 3D walkthroughs.
Read Use CaseWith Maya, you can create massive landscapes, dynamic characters, and stunning effects.
- With appealing animation capabilities, you can bring realistic characters to life.
- In Maya® software, use straightforward modelling tools to create 3D objects and scenes.
- Realistic effects, such as explosions and textile simulations, can be created.
Arnold can render even the most complicated projects.
- Switch between CPU and GPU rendering with ease.
- Arnold is designed to deal with complicated characters, scenery, and lighting.
- Because Arnold is integrated with Maya, you can see high-resolution previews and swiftly iterate changes.
- Arnold's artist-friendly UI and easy, intuitive controls boost productivity.

Workflows and use cases
Maya + Arnold
Maya and Arnold were utilised to build an aquatic dystopia by the team which won award for the short film “The Beauty”.
Read StoryMaya + 3ds Max + Arnold + MotionBuilder + Mudbox
Learn how the Media & Entertainment Collection's resources were used to create the animated short Mkali's Mission.
Read BlogCreating a photorealistic three-dimensional ostrich
Artist Yuriy Dulich explains how he used Maya to create a photorealistic Somali ostrich.
Read BlogWhat is the Media & Entertainment Collection, and what does it contain?
All of the tools you'll need to develop a strong and scalable 3D animation pipeline for sophisticated simulations, effects, and rendering are included in the Media & Entertainment Collection.
- Render your most difficult projects with Arnold, from complex fight sequences to hyperrealistic creatures.
- With Bifrost for Maya, you can create complicated effects like explosions, fire, sand, and snow.
- Empower artists with a variety of tools so they may consistently generate beautiful, film-quality work.
Take advantage of the quickness of 2D compositing with 3D visual effects
Flame® 3D VFX and finishing software offers advanced 3D compositing, visual effects, and editorial finishing capabilities. Faster compositing, enhanced graphics, colour correction, and other benefits come with an integrated creative environment.
- Render your most difficult projects with Arnold, from complex fight sequences to hyper realistic creatures.
- With Bifrost for Maya, you can create complicated effects like explosions, fire, sand, and snow.
- Empower artists with a variety of tools so they may consistently generate beautiful, film-quality work.
Which Flame product is right for you?

FLAME
Tools for finishing visual effects and 3D compositing in a fast and interactive manner.

FLAME ASSIST
Flame's assistance station is timeline-centric and entirely compatible.

FLARE
Flare is a Flame creative assistant station that is fully compatible with Flame in collaborative VFX workflows.
Workflows
Bring all of your ideas to life.
To swiftly populate 3D sceneries, Golaem is the tool of choice.
- Golaem can animate humans, horses, birds, and other unusual things.
- Also, keep in mind that two is company, three is a crowd!

Golaem is a crowd simulation programme.
Golaem empowers you to swiftly populate your sceneries with intelligent and controllable digital figures.
- Repetitive animation work should be avoided.
- Increase the variety of your photos to make them more realistic.
- Backgrounds and midgrounds can be filled in minutes rather than weeks.
For previz and layout, use Golaem.
You have complete control over the characters in Golaem Layout.
- Duplicate or manipulate characters.
- They should alter their appearance.
- Retake or reposition the animation.
- Obtain a shot that is good to excellent and validated.
- Create whole scenes with just one character.

Ready-to-use assets or custom assets
Begin filling in the blanks in your shots right now.
- Use the Golaem Assets, a collection of free characters and motions for all your projects.
- Make use of your own resources, such as persons, horses, critters, and even things.
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Testimonials
Circus populates lego city adventures series with golaem
French VFX and Animation studio Circus used Golaem to populate cities with pedestrians and car traffic for entire seasons of Lego City Adventures Series.
On animation toys with golaem for playmobil: the movie
Jeremy Ringard, from ON Animation used Golaem to create a Playmobil battle and fill a coliseum with 40 000 characters in Playmobil: The Movie.
Method studios fills le mans grandstand for ford vs ferrari
Method Studios delivered hundreds of lively grandstands crowd shots for Ford vs Ferrari. Tim Riley, Head of Crowds in Vancouver.
Bluebolt creates a swarm of killer bees with golaem for holmes & watson
BlueBolt used Golaem to animate killer bees in a dauting sequence in which they crawl onto the moving and deforming main actor's face.
Rodeo fx populates the nutcracker ouverture with golaem!
Disney's The Nutcracker, Rodeo FX created a 1 min 20 sec long, full CG, opening sequence which makes us fly over a Victorian London populated using Golaem with many ambient characters including cloth simulation.