Best 3D Painting Software

Compare the Top 3D Painting Software as of March 2026

What is 3D Painting Software?

3D painting software enables users to apply textures, colors, and materials directly onto 3D models, simulating real-world painting techniques in a virtual environment. These tools allow for detailed surface painting, including shading, UV mapping, and material editing, enabling artists to create realistic or stylized textures for characters, objects, and environments. 3D painting software is commonly used in industries like video game development, animation, visual effects (VFX), and product design to add visual detail and realism to 3D models. Some advanced features include dynamic brush tools, layer management, and real-time rendering to see how the paint interacts with lighting and surfaces. Compare and read user reviews of the best 3D Painting software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Ultimate Unwrap 3D

    Ultimate Unwrap 3D

    Ultimate Unwrap 3D

    Ultimate Unwrap 3D is a standalone UV mapping software for unfolding and unwrapping 3D models. It includes an easy-to-use UV coordinate editor, a standard set of UV mapping projections such as planar, box, cylindrical, and spherical, as well as advanced UV mapping tools for those difficult to map areas on a model. The Pro version includes a full-featured set of additional UV mapping editing tools, such as straightening, aligning, packing, and seaming. It is ideal for artists, professionals, modellers, game developers, and hobbyists, and easy enough to use for all levels of computer users. Ultimate Unwrap 3D supports over 100 file formats, including FBX, DAE, ASE, DXF, LWO, OBJ, and DirectX. We support 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Modo, Sketchup, and many more! Interactive seam picking mode. For marking seams in the 3D views. Repainting UVs for creating texture atlases from multiple textures. AutoTD UV islands. Scales UVs using the average texel density.
    Starting Price: $59.95 one-time payment
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    Quixel

    Quixel

    Quixel

    We make Megascans, Bridge and Mixer, a unique 3D asset library and two companion applications for 3D art creation. With these products, our community of users creates amazing 3D art for videogames, movies, architecture visualization and more. Quixel was founded in 2011 by Teddy Bergsman and Waqar Azim, based on the vision of substantially speeding up how creators build digital environments, by giving them access to a vast and ever-expanding library of 3D building blocks, and easy-to-use tools to greatly simplify the creative process. If you have an Unreal Engine license, simply sign in with your Epic Games account to get unlimited access to the Megascans library through Bridge. Thousands of 3D and 2D assets are being scanned based on your immediate needs, so you focus on being creative. Thanks to its incredible quality and depth, Megascans makes work fun & easy for the world’s top AAA and VFX studios.
    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Mari

    Mari

    Foundry

    From procedural to hand-painted textures and everything in between. Mari 3D painting without limits. Mari® is 3D painting without limits, combining the power and performance to handle even the most complex assets with artist-friendly 3D paint tools, that make the most of your creativity. With support for UDIM workflows, artists can work with hundreds of high-resolution texture maps. Its projection-based painting system allows artists to make edits to paint before committing it, preview it in context and make 2D adjustments, freeing artists from the limits of resolution and complexity. Mari’s non-destructive layer and node graph systems make it easy for artists to create the look they want, offering an extensive range of procedurals. The Materials System gives artists the ability to easily create less complex, higher-volume assets or quickly lay down the building blocks for their hero assets. With an extensive Python API and full OCIO color management support.
    Starting Price: $65 per month
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    ZBrushCoreMini

    ZBrushCoreMini

    ZBrushCoreMini

    Enjoy a true ZBrush experience as you take your first steps into the exciting world of digital sculpting with ZBrushCoreMini. ZBrushCoreMini is designed for new artists of all ages, with a streamlined interface that lets anyone jump right in and start sculpting immediately. ZBrushCoreMini is all about sculpting. Start with a simple sphere or a stone block, then use a select group of the most popular digital sculpting brushes from ZBrush to add or remove material and simply create! ZBrushCoreMini frees you to explore your imagination. Once you are happy with your creation, it also provides an exciting new way to share your work with others, through the iMage3D format. On any website, this will simply appear as a regular 2D image. But other users of ZBrushCoreMini can open the file in full 3D! And with 3D printers increasingly coming into their own, ZBrushCoreMini includes the ability to export your model for real-world printing.
    Starting Price: $39.95 per month
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