Compare the Top 3D Character Creators that integrate with 3ds Max as of March 2026

This a list of 3D Character Creators that integrate with 3ds Max. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with 3ds Max. View the products that work with 3ds Max in the table below.

What are 3D Character Creators for 3ds Max?

3D character creator software allows users to design, customize, and animate lifelike or stylized three-dimensional characters for games, films, virtual reality, and other digital media. It offers tools for modeling, texturing, rigging, and posing characters with options to modify facial features, body types, clothing, and accessories. Many platforms include libraries of pre-made assets and support integration with animation and game engines for seamless workflow. By simplifying complex 3D design processes, these tools empower artists and developers to bring unique characters to life efficiently. Ultimately, 3D character creator software enhances creative expression and accelerates content production in digital entertainment. Compare and read user reviews of the best 3D Character Creators for 3ds Max currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    iClone

    iClone

    Reallusion

    iClone is the fastest real-time 3D animation software in the industry, helping you easily produce professional animations for films, previz, animation, video games, content development, education and art. Integrated with the latest real-time technologies, iClone simplifies the world of 3D Animation in a user-friendly production environment that blends character animation, scene design and cinematic storytelling; quickly turning your vision into a reality. Animate any character instantly with intuitive tools for face and body animation. Create facial animations with accurate lip-sync, puppet emotive expressions, muscle-based face key editing, and an unparalleled iPhone facial capture. Create realistic or stylized, animation-ready humanoid 3D characters in a short time. Powerful animation features get scenes moving thanks to ultimate creative control.
    Starting Price: $599 per license
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    anima

    anima

    AXYZ design

    People and crowd animation software was developed specifically for architects and designers to add 3D animated characters to their projects quickly and easily. With anima®, 3D people become human beings. The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism. anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations. Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.
    Starting Price: €279 one-time payment
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    Daz 3D

    Daz 3D

    Daz Productions

    Founded in 2000, Daz 3D is a 3D modeling software and content company specializing in morphable, posable human models, two of which are the most widely used 3D figures worldwide (Victoria and Michael). Used by top brands and illustrators, Daz Studio gives amateurs and professional graphic artists a free, time saving tool to create and customize their creations. Daz is used in film, TV, animation, video games, web design, print illustrations and more. Download Daz Studio and explore our huge library of free and premium 3D content. Start building custom scenes and characters in seconds with our smart content library. Export beautiful photo-realistic images and animations with studio-class processing. Explore our huge library of free and premium 3D content, like characters, hair, creatures, vehicles, environments, and more. Build your own universe with Daz Studio, the free 3D software. Export beautiful photo-realistic images and animations with studio-class processing.
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    metropoly

    metropoly

    AXYZ design

    Stunning photo-scanned 3D people models. Add life to your architectural visualization projects and renders with metropoly® 3d People Characters. Compatible with 3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4D®, Blender®, Unreal Engine®, Lightwave®, SketchUp®, Rhino® and anima® with support for the best renderers in the industry. We work with passion combining technology and craftsmanship, a perfect union to obtain realistic 3D characters. Through the use of modern 3D photogrammetric scanning technologies and the craftwork of our group of artists, we strive to make Metropoly 3D People near to perfection. Our 3D human models are designed and optimized to offer the best performance during rendering, adding details where they are really needed. For our static models, we create meshes with about 40K polygons while the 3D characters for animation are retopologized to offer the best deformation during the animation and designed to be easily edited and modified.
    Starting Price: €19.90 one-time payment
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    AccuRIG

    AccuRIG

    Reallusion

    ActorCore AccuRIG is a free application designed for fast and easy character rigging, aiming to reduce production effort for character artists to focus on the model design with its automation and simplicity. Achieve accurate and superior rigging results in 5 simple steps for models in A/T/scan poses, or with low/high/multiple meshes. Direct export to major 3D tools, or upload to ActorCore and try tons of production-ready animations designed for game, film, archviz, digital twins and more. System Requirements Minimum Requirements Dual Core CPU 4GB RAM 5GB free hard disk space Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce GTX 400 Series / AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series Video Memory: 1GB Ram Display Resolution: 1024 x 768 Color Depth: True Color (32-bit) Operating System Windows 11, 10, and 8 Support for 64-bit Operating System DirectX 11 required
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