Qual o melhor programa 3d do mercado?

Pensando em nossos leitores que não sabem qual o melhor programa 3d para ser utilizado em cada área (claro que isso é muito pessoal, mas não custa dar uma ajudinha na escolha), achei esta tabela no site TDT3D falando claramente de alguns dos melhores programas do mercado, especificações, pontos fortes e fracos, em que área eles têm um maior desenpenho etc.

	Autodesk 3ds max 9 SP2	Autodesk Maya complete 8.5	Blender 3D 2.45	Luxology Modo 301	Maxon Cinema4D R 10.1	Newtek Lightwave 9.3	Softimage XSI Foundation 6.2
First market	Viz – Games	Games – Film	VIZ – Realtime	Viz – Games	Motion – Design	VFX – VIZ w/LWCAD	Animation – Game – Film
End user prices *	5,000 €	2,500 €	FREE	745 €	800 €	800 €	450 €
Annual subscription	Yes	Yes	None	None	None	None	None
Platforms
PLE	None	Yes	NA	None	None	None	None
Trial	Yes	Yes	NA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Languages	FR EN	EN	A lots but EN is best	EN JP	CZ EN FR GE IT PL SP JP	EN JP	EN JP
Languages Switch	None	None	All include	None	All include	None	None
Industries populated	Very good	Very good	Low	Low	Good	Very good	Good
Techno. Core Aged	Old	Old	Old / Re-new	Modern	Old / Re-new	Old / Re-new	Modern
Learning path to be productive	< 2 months	< 3 months	< 3 months	< 1 month	< 1 month	< 2 months	< 2 months
Company support for single users	Low / Good	Good	Communities	Very good	Very good	Very good	Very good
Supports reactivities for single users	Good	Good	Communities	Very good	Excellent !	Very good	Low
Interface	CAD style, Clean and powerful	Like a Forge, flexible and powerful, but not intuitive !	Not as CG “industries” standard – Fast workflow, can be more intuitive	Excellent !	Clean and intuitive	A bit old, texts interface.	Logical texts and clean interface !
Document.	Good	Excellent !	Good	Very good, (many videos)	Very good	Excellent ! (Shaders manual !)	Very Good
DVD training	Good	Very good	Low	Good	Low	Very good	Good
TOP Import / Export needed by industries
3DS	Very good	Very good	Good	Low	Very good	Good	Low
COLLADA	Very good	Very good	Very good	Good	None	None	Very Good
FBX	Very good	Very good	Very good	Very good	Very good	Good	Very Good
OBJ	Very good	Very good	Good	Very good	Very good	Good	Good
VRML / X3D	VRML 97	VRML 2	VRML 1 & 97	X3D	VRML 2	VRML 97	Plugin
Point Oven	Plugin	Plugin	90% working	Yes	None	Plugin	Very good
DXF	Very good	Good	Low	Yes	Good	Good	Plugin
IGES	Good	Low	None	None	Plugin	None	Good
STL	Very good	Very good	Good	None	Very good	Plugin	None
Output compositing	RPF RLA EXR	RPF RLA EXR	EXR	EXR	RPF RLA EXR	RPF RLA EXR	EXR
Rendering
Rendering	Internal, Mentalray	Internal, Mentalray	Internal	Internal	Internal	Internal	Mentalray
Quality	Excellent !	Excellent !	Good	Excellent !	Good	Excellent !	Excellent !
Must have render plugin	Vray	Vray	Yafray / Indigo	None	Adv.Render	None	3Delight
Quality w/plugin	Excellent !	Excellent !	Very good	NA	Very good	Excellent !	Excellent !
Textures Baker	Very good	Very good	Good	Excellent !	Very good	Excellent !	Very good
Top base package for industries need ! ( ** are only available in Highend Package only ! )
Animation tools (IK, Char Rig, Bones, Controller, Blending,…)	Very good	Excellent !	Good	Low	Good	Good	Excellent !
UV tools (Unwrap, Pelt…)	Very good	Excellent !	Excellent !	Excellent !	Excellent !	Good	Excellent !
Painting	None	Very good	Low	Excellent !	Excellent !	None	Very good**
Modeling	Excellent !	Very good	Good	Very good	Very good	Excellent !	Excellent !
Modifiers	Excellent !	Very good	Good	Very good	Good	Good	Very good
NURBS	Low	Very good	Low	None	None (Hyper Nurbs)	None	Very good
Dynamics / Rigid bodies	Very good	Excellent !	Very good	None	Very good**	Very good	Excellent !**
Soft bodies	Very good	Very good	Good	None	Good**	Good	Very good
Hairs	Very good	Very good**	Good	None	Very good**	Good	Very good**
Cloths	Very good	Very good**	Good	None	Very good**	None	Very good
Particles	Excellent !	Very good	Good	None	Good	Very good	Very good
Fluids	None	Very good**	Very good	None	None	Good	Good
Compositing	None	None	Yes	None	None	Yes	Excellent !**
Nodes-Based Workflow	None	Yes	None	None	None	None	None
Nodes-Based Materials	Plug-ins	Yes	Yes	None	None	Excellent !	Excellent !
Nodes-Based Compositing	None	None	Yes	None	None	None	Excellent !**
CG shader / Games	Excellent !	Excellent !	Yes	None	None	Yes	Excellent !
Top unique feature	Biped ParticlesFlow	PaintFX Fluids** Nucleus	3DRT Sculpting Video edit	Painting Render Sculpting	Bodypaint	Hypervoxel Render !	Anim tools Gator Illusion**
Scripting	Good	Excellent !	Very good	Excellent !	Good	Good	Excellent !
Scripting Dev.	Maxscript	MEL, Python	Python	Perl, Lua, Python	EXPRESSO COFFEE	LScript	Vb, Python, Jscript
C/C++ Dev.	Good	Very good	Very good (opensource)	None	Very good	Very good	Good
Vue 6 xStream plugin	Low	Good	None	None	Good	Excellent !	Excellent !
The dark side !	Price, no new features !	Learning curve	Interface / document.	No char Anim tools	Default render	Rig tools	Imports Exports
All you need for Film / Production Ready ?
Package	Standard	Unlimited	Standard with a lots scripts	Standard	Studio	Standard	Essential
Prices *	5,000 €	8,500 €	Free	745 €	3,200 €	800 €	2,500 €
All you need for Freelance / Designer Ready ?
Package	Standard	Complete	Standard	Standard	Bundle	Standard	Foundation
Prices *	5,000 €	2,500 €	Free	745 €	2,500 €	800 €	450 €
All you need for EDU / Student ready ?
Package	Standard	Ulimited	Standard	Standard	Bundle	Standard	Advanced
Prices *	130 €	250 €	Free	125 €	180 €	230 €	220 €
Can I Found a jobs with ?
VIZ / Design	Excellent !	Good	Good	Good	Excellent !	Good	Low
Film	Good	Excellent !	Low	Low	Low	Very good	Excellent !
VFX / Motion	Good	Excellent !	Good	Low	Good	Excellent !	Excellent !
Game	Excellent !	Very good	Low	Good	Low	Good	Very good
Web designer	Low	Low	Good	Good	Excellent !	Good	Low
3D Realtime / VR	Excellent !	Very good	Very good	Good	Low	Good	Low
Users communities and popularity ?
Nord America	Excellent !	Excellent !	Good	Excellent !	Good	Very good	Excellent !
Europe	Very good	Excellent !	Very good	Excellent !	Good	Good	Good
Asia	Very good	Good	Low	Good	Low	Very good	Excellent !
My last words ?
3ds max	By far the most well know and used 3D dcc applications in the industries all around the world, so the prices for freelance is too much expenssive and old core based. The Bad since version 7 is the price vs poor new features, evolving !
Maya	One of the most know by popularity in the Film and VFX industries. Maya downside’s is on learning curve interface not intuitive and !
Blender	A good all around application first for freelance. Blender downside’s is on interface, who is not today “industries” common (no drag & drop, poor intuitive tools,…) and structured / centralised documentations, so it’s the best free all arround solution.
Modo	Probably the most modern 3D software and it is being developed rapidly. Very affordable and has a super strong user community. Multi-threading and a super flexible user interface And 3D sculpting tools!
Cinema4D	Very good all around application suitable for freelance/designer best quality tools for the price ! Not enough popular yet !
LightWave	An old but very powerful suitable first for VFX and VIZ market. LightWave downside’s is on Rig tools, so Render engine and shaders are the best you can found !
Softimage XSI	No doubt for the prices the Foundation is the best all around, so Imports/Exports is the dark side, but for 450 euro you can’t get better (exlude Blender for free !)

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