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Modo Reviews & Product Details

Modo’s powerful and flexible 3D modeling, texturing and rendering toolset empowers artists to explore and develop ideas without jumping through technical hoops. Modo® is your starting point for creative exploration. Whether you’re creating addictive real-time experiences, innovative product designs, compelling advertising images, or engaging film and video content, MODO’s artist-friendly tools let you iterate freely to realize your ideas’ full creative potential. As part of our Enterprise Solution Partnership Package, not only will you get the photo-realism of Modo, but you get the rapid-iteration software, Colorway. On top of that, you have access to our Modo experts for asset creation, expert training, and dedicated support as you chart your digital design transformation. Users choose Modo for its ability to enable fast direct modeling, flexible procedural modeling, the award-winning MeshFusion Boolean toolset and built-in sculpting tools all working together, Modo’s modeling moxie is unmatched. With its advanced photorealistic viewport and progressive renderer, and WYSIWYG look-dev for Unity and Unreal, Modo lets you visualize your designs as you develop them, so you can discover their ultimate potential in less time. Freedom from creativity-killing constraints, with Modo’s intuitive, artist-friendly toolset. From roughing out volumes to creating highly detailed forms, Modo lets you focus on creation, not construction. Build your own kit of specialized tools by combining different operations, with Modo’s flexible tool assembly system. With Modo, every job you do becomes easier, as you continually develop new efficiencies. Modo fits right into your pipeline, with Python and C++ APIs; a fully customizable UI; and support for industry-standard formats like OpenSubdiv, OpenColorIO, OpenEXR, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Seller

Foundry

Discussions

Modo Community

Languages Supported

English, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified)

Overview by

Jen Goldfinch

Pricing

Pricing provided by Modo.

Monthly Subscription

£74.00

1 Users Per Month

Annual Subscription

£599.00

1 Users Per Year

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Modo offers a unique combination of best-in-class direct modeling tools working hand-in-hand with a highly robust and flexible procedural modeling system. Additionally, Modo features the award-winning MeshFusion Boolean tools, integrated sculpting and retopology functionality.

Review textures as you bake and watch them refine progressively. Modo also allows you to tweak settings and make surface changes without waiting for a final render, and it accurately bakes to Unity or Unreal standards with no extra tools required.

mPath, Modo’s physically-based hybrid renderer combined with iterative denoising technology, lets you visualize your designs intuitively and with less waiting.

Take the drudgery out of tedious UV creation tasks, with a highly efficient built-in toolset that offers many automated options, supports UDIM workflows, and—unlike some other 3D content creation tools—integrates fully with modeling and selection workflows.

Modo has a powerful Order of Operations deformation system that when combined with Rig Clay, enables anyone to intuitively modify geometry like a pro. Now rigging in Modo empowers both the most technical rigger and 3D beginners alike.

Modo Demo - Workflow and User Experience

Modos features have always been engineered with workflow and user experience as the highest priority. OmniHaul provides customizable, gesture-based control for tools and channels directly in the 3D viewport. Enhanced boolean functionality, expanded preset capabilities and the new MeshFusion workf...

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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Modo is good for simple application"

5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

Xmodule very strong to customization of UI screen. I have integrated IBM tririga Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

we need to write lots of code to get cool UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Animation

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2021

"My feedback"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

It seems to have all the basic functions needed and easy to use layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

No complaints at the moment as it's been great to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great service!"

5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

Easy to use, great for creative people and digital services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

Actually I didn find something bad about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2021

"super helpful"

5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

making procedural modeling more easy than other softwares.Also render your stuff directly inside Unity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

UV map is more weird than other softwares Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mario M.

Modellatore 3d

Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/24/2019

"Great for 3D modeling "

4/5

What do you like best about Modo?

A lot of great tools for modeling, both direct modeling and procedural modeling. Every tool can be combined with others in a tool pipe, in this way you can create your own custom tools and presets. The main features are the variety of selections tools, great hotkeys customization, a quick definition of action centers, falloff and placement of the workplane. Plus many other features like mesh operations, schematic nodes, meshfusion, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

Performance with high poly counts: the viewport can slow down when there are a lot of items in the scene. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Okindo D.

Civil Engineering Technician

Civil Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/30/2019

"Modo"

4/5

What do you like best about Modo?

It is easy to get started once basic information of the program is learned.

Modo is the most flexible program.

Allows my employees to work in any stage of 3D progress.

It is cheap to acquire.

Easy in modeling and it is fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

Modo program sometimes becomes slow and more complex hence not user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Modo:

I recommend Modo since it is highly customizable interface hence making work easy.

Modo doesn't require subscriptions.

It has a great support from the founders over the features of the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Modo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Modo has helped in solving the problem of documentation and user guide making them easy to access.

It has allowed me to temporarily create a new world axis through creating a geometry in round surfaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roberto L.

Grafico senior - Pilota APR

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/23/2019

"The perfect 3D software"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

Nice workflow, all integrated in 1 software, sculpt and paint 3d too. Using mesh fusion in modelling, faster render and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

Actually animation section can be more powerfull same tools like Maya 3D, but complete works. Then your can start a project from zero to animated finished without problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/29/2019

"The best user interface in 3D modeling program"

4/5

What do you like best about Modo?

Hi like the way Modo manage selections: if nothing is selected, everything is selected! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

I dislike the internal renderer, it's very slow and it not support the GPU render. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamarr T.

Graphic/Motion Designer, Photographer

Graphic Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2018

"Very intuitive modeling package! "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

Modo hand's down is one of the best modeling packages I've used in my years of 3D modeling/creation. When it comes to organic/hard-surface modeling/retopology, it has some of the best tools available of any AIO 3D software. One of the better perks I enjoy about Modo is how many of the most common tools are naturally assigned to hotkeys that just make sense. This helps take a lot of the "thinking" out of what you're doing and just allows you to work. The assigned keys for navigation make it tablet-friendly as well. Modo is also highly customizable, really allowing you to hone it in to your personal way of working. I've never been a huge fan of setting up UVs, but Modo has made this process painless to the point of therapeutic. And last but definitely not least, Modo has one of the best native renderers I've worked with as well, easily holding its own with the likes of rendering engines such as Arnold or Vray. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

After the modeling/UVing phase, Modo somewhat falls apart for me just a little bit. Most 3D software these days have a node-based approach to texturing that makes the process easier. Modo can be a little clunky when it comes to setting up textures, and as a result, there are other packages I'd still prefer to work in after the modeling phase.

Modo's animation toolsets has been growing over the years, but compared to an industry-standard software like Maya, Modo's animation toolsets still don't really hold a candle to the likes of Maya, unfortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Modo:

Modo may be pretty hefty price-wise when it comes to utilizing it for solely its strong-points. For some it may be worth looking at alternative solutions, but I'd definitely give Modo's free trial a go first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Modo solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've been utilizing Modo in my pipeline for some client projects as well as personal projects, delving into tasks such as character creation/retopology as well as environment/prop creation. It's made the creation process much easier to maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ellery C.

Assistant Professor

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/5/2017

"Excellent tools for modeling and rendering"

5/5

What do you like best about Modo?

The modeling tools are well thought out and implemented. The tool system is based on a a user-customizeable platform that allows for a lot of artist-end modification without a lot of work. The rendering system is also very good. With minimal effort will produce nice quality results and with a little work it can produce some of the best 3D renderings of any package currently available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modo?

Working with very large scenes can often be a bit difficult and I would like to see some future development in that area. Also, the dynamics and simulation options (especially fluids and liquid simulation) could be improved upon in order to really round out the package as a full featured all-in-one toolset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Modo:

Download the free trial and watch a few training videos. It is easy to pick up (as far as 3D software goes) the modeling tools are fantastic and the renderer produces great results right off the bat! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Modo solving and how is that benefiting you?

The modeling tools are fast, intuitive and adaptable. The flexible and powerful rendering engine makes it excellent for previsualization, ideation and photo-real rendering. I have used modo for a variety of projects including producta and architectural visualization, visual effects, and game design and for all all of the use ncases in modeling, texture and material design, lighting, and rendering it has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.