Cheetah3D

Cheetah3D is a robust and user-friendly 3D modeling, rendering, and animation application, specifically developed for OS X. It allows you to dive into the world of Computer Generated Imaging, create 3D artwork for your next iPhone game, or animate your first character.

Modeling: Cheetah3D provides a comprehensive set of polygon, subdivision surface, and spline modeling tools. This allows you to focus on creating, knowing that Cheetah3D has a wide range of features for the task. It makes 3D modeling a breeze for both new and experienced users.

UV editing: Once you’ve modeled a character or a new product design, it’s time to decorate. Cheetah3D comes equipped with a powerful UV editor and a node-based materials system for painting and texturing every model you make.

Animation: Character rigging is part of Cheetah3D’s seamless animation system. Almost every property of an object can be animated, allowing you to bring life to a character for your next iPhone game or animate an architectural fly-through.

Dynamics: Cheetah3D integrates the industrial-strength Bullet physics engine to simulate rigid body and soft body dynamics. Whether you want to spill a bowl of marbles on the floor or simulate a waving flag in the wind, Cheetah3D can handle it with just a few mouse clicks.

Rendering: With features like Raytracing, Global Illumination, HDRI, Caustics, and much more, Cheetah3D can produce stunning images and animations using advanced techniques. Create amazing pictures that will mesmerize friends, colleagues, and clients.

Scripting: Cheetah3D offers an easy-to-learn yet powerful Javascript API. This allows you to extend the feature set of Cheetah3D by creating custom object types, file loaders, or tools.

File exchange: Cheetah3D supports the import and export of 3D models and animations using popular file types (fbx, stl, 3ds, obj, etc.). This enables sharing of content produced with Cheetah3D. Images and animations made in Cheetah3D can also be shared using a wide range of popular image and movie file types (jpg, tiff, png, mov, etc.).

Workflow: Cheetah3D integrates seamlessly into the workflow of many popular Mac apps. With Cheetah3D, you can create stunning 3D models for iBooks Author or many popular game engines.