Slic3r is a lightweight, free and open-source 3D printing & slicing software developed by Alessandro Ranellucci from Italy (written in C++). Its comes with powerful functions, yet is convenient and simple to use. As one of the most professional and one of the few 3D printing programs, Slic3r's slicing speed is 100 times faster than the early Skeinforge, so it can definitely meet your high-tech 3D slicing needs.

xTex is a very fast 3D texture/material production software. It is able to create seamless maps faster than ever before - directly generates texture from a scanner or an image. If you need original, highly customizable, and high-quality textures, then give xTex a try. Even without a scanner, it still can be used to create seamless texture materials with the realistic scanning style.

iClone is a fast and real-time new generation of 3D animation production and rendering software developed by Reallusion from Taiwan in China. It can help user streamline and simplify the production of 3D animation, and utilize the GPU rendering ability to create unprecedented production efficiency and visual experience. Therefore, it is well-liked by the majority of animation designers.

Aurora 3D Animation Maker (AKA: Aurora3DAnimation) is a very professional 3D text animation creation software that can easily and efficiently generate 3D title, text and logo animations in just a few minutes. It enables users to give full play to their creativity and imagination to easily create amazing text-based 3D interactions, animations, videos and multimedia programs!

Pixologic claims to be the maker of Sculptris, but actually it had no choice but acquired it in 2010 due to the huge threats from Sculptris, and applied Sculptris' advantages to ZBrush, so as to maintain the market and position of ZBrush. Otherwise, if Sculptris' inventor Tomas Pettersson had chosen to stick to go his own way (although that would have been tough) rather than join into the Pixologic team, then this revolutionary software could have quickly eliminated ZBrush. In other words, it was his own shortcomings that killed his invention, not the competition from Pixologic.