K-3D Animation Engine
K-3D (Kerdi) is a free-for-all open source 3D animation and modeling software. It includes many flexible plugins with an intuitive visualization workflow architecture, making K-3D an invaluable tool for animators. K-3D offers many rendering options, including animated textures, skeletal rigging, realistic mesh, and advanced materials and colors. K-3D gives you the ability to easily and quickly model complex physical structures, like cars and airplanes, and change their shape and details in real time. K-3D has a complete set of libraries of textures and normal maps and allows you to easily manipulate shaders.
If you're an artist working on a concept and would like to see how it would look when fully rendered, try rendering it using one of the many supported formats. The K-3D plugin makes it easy to add texturing and lighting to your model with simple controls. The texture map is also customizable, so you can make a one of a kind custom texture map or bake a complex texture from scratch. K-3D offers a simple yet effective process of rendering and allows the artist to see exactly what the final render looks like. K-3D has the most powerful graphics processing power available on the market for the cost of a low-end graphics card and is extremely easy to use and render with.
K-3D was designed to be very simple to use by any new user, without complicated or confusing user interface requirements. In fact, even the most basic programs allow you to simply drag and drop objects into place, which makes K-3D incredibly intuitive to use and quick to get started. It is a fast rendering engine, thanks to the optimized performance of the CPU, and the superior level of memory efficiency that the user can take advantage of. The user interface, while not particularly intuitive or complicated, is clean and straight forward, with no need to learn any complicated computer software. Overall, the user interface and high quality animation and rendering are the icing on the cake.
