Modeling
With the industry’s fastest modeling toolset Modo offers artists: 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.

Direct Modeling
Modo’s direct modeling toolset has long been renowned for its shared focus on workflow and technical innovation. The most common approach to modeling with the availability of many tools to manipulate the geometry directly in the 3D viewport. For example, you can add a cube, bevel it, move edges, duplicate polygons, deform, and so on, all by interacting directly with the geometry.

Procedural Modeling
Introduced in Modo 10, the procedural modeling tool sets have provided Modo with a system built for the future of modeling. The vast majority of direct modeling features are also made available as powerful procedural variants. With every product update procedural modeling continues to grow more powerful.

UV workflows
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.

Sculpting
Bring your artistic expression to 3D modeling, as you use Modo's integrated brush-based sculpting tools to intuitively build shapes and add multiple levels of fine detail with speed.

Rendering & Shading
Offering 2 renderers and a multitude of shading options, mPath and the Default (legacy) renderer enable artists to start creating high quality, photorealistic, and physically-based renders with ease or stylized renders with flexible, artist-driven control.

Modo Render & mPath
Enjoy photorealistic rendering at amazing speeds and limitless resolutions—even network rendering is free. Modo's production-proven, physically-based renderer offers a rare blend of speed and quality.

Shading
Streamline your workflow with fast, flexible layer-based and nodal shading systems for building sophisticated, convincing materials with ease. Drag-and-drop presets let you quickly develop the look you want, or simply select from a huge library of highly realistic physically-based materials.

Baking
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.

Animation & Rigging
Modo has one of the most novel Rigging and Animation systems on the market today. Featuring an Order of Operations deformation system and industry-proven animation workflows, Modo’s rigging and animation systems offer an easy way to get assets moving, fast.

Keyframe Animation
Remove the delays from the in-betweener in traditional 2D cartoon animation and let Modo create the in-between frames for you, and work with channels, as properties that animate any item.

Rigging
Featuring a non-destructive, non-linear toolset and fully-integrated modular workflow, Modo's flexible node-based rigging system lets you easily create, edit, manage, and reuse complex character rigs.

Effects
Everything in Modo plays nicely together. Mix the particle system with dynamics. Leverage geometry based hair that is shaded like any other surface. Take advantage of advanced procedural modeling features like arrays to create streamlined asset creation workflows. Modo’s effects systems are ready to help.

Particle and Dynamics
Create compelling dynamic simulations with Modo's rule-based, directable particle and dynamics systems. Integrated together with rigid and soft bodies, and procedural shattering, enable artists to create compelling dynamic simulations in less time.

Hair and Fur
Modo lets you create and manipulate realistic hair, fur, grass, feathers and other fiber-based effects as actual geometry that can be sculpted, shaded and rendered directly in your scene.

Camera and Projection Tools
Modo is packed with advanced tools for virtual camera creation and digital matte painting, offering extensive projection tools allowing you to choose the desired camera type.

Workflow
Free yourself from creativity-killing constraints, with Modo’s highly customizable user interface and robust software development interfaces. Without proper attention to workflow, a powerful tool is little more than a digital paperweight.

Presets
Modo’s Presets help you work quicker and more effectively, so you can avoid repetitive modeling tasks. Segment your work into more manageable parts, and create repeatable looks with saveable, shareable, reusable assemblies, and presets.

Collaboration and File I/O
With extensive file format support, asset sharing workflows and complete customizability, Modo offers production teams the combination of effective collaboration and individual efficiency they require.

Customizable UI
The Modo user interface is composed of “forms,” which can be resized or toggled on and off to further optimize the user interface. If you hit F3 inside of Modo, you can view and modify a wide variety of forms. We've built useful combinations of forms that we provide as “layouts” for Modo users, and new layouts can be easily created and saved by both users and Modo developers.

Toolpipe (custom tool creation)
Modo’s Toolpipe lets you create an infinite number of specialized modeling and selection tool variants that you can assign to hotkeys or other parts of the user interface. With the Toolpipe, you are able to combine Modo’s robust set of powerful modeling tools with falloffs and action centers in new combinations to customize the way a given tool feels, looks and affects geometry. You can either use Modo’s tools as supplied, or leverage the Toolpipe to create a tailored set of tools that work exactly the way you want them to.

Scripting
Modo supports scripting in Python, Lua or Perl right out of the box. The Modo TD SDK offers a simpler and more intuitive interface to the existing Python API, making it easier for technical directors to write plug-ins. Essentially a package wrapped around the base Python API, the TD SDK simplifies the COM semantics of Modo's plug-in architectures and presents a more Python-like interface.

Officially supported operating systems

12.x (Monterey), 13.x (Ventura), and 14.x (Sonoma)
Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit only)
Linux 64-bit operating system (Rocky 9)

NOTE: Modo for macOS is available as an ARM version (Apple Silicon hardware only) and an OSX version (Intel hardware and ARM hardware, using Rosetta2 emulation)

Minimum hardware requirements

Processor:
Intel processor(s), Core i3 or higher

Storage:
10 GB available hard disk space (for a full and content installation)

RAM:
At least 2 GB RAM

Display:
At least 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution

Graphics Card:
The Advanced viewport mode requires an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card with at least 1 GB of GPU memory and drivers that support OpenGL 4.4 or higher AMD AI Denoiser requires a minimum of 4 GB of GPU memory

Tested workstation hardware

Apple
MacBook Pro (Retina, 2017)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 2018)
MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 2021)
MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)

AMD Enterprise Graphics Cards
Radeon Pro 560X
Radeon R9 M370x

NVIDIA prosumer graphics cards
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (Linux)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA enterprise graphics cards
Quadro RTX A2000 (laptop)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Quadro T1000

CPU
Intel i7-8700
Intel i9-9900k
Quadro T1000
Intel i7-11850H
Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6
AMD Ryzen 5 5600x

The configurations listed are those that Foundry has tested with Modo 17.0. Due to the constantly changing nature and wide variety of computer hardware available in the market, Foundry is unable to officially certify hardware. The list below can be used as a recommendation and does not guarantee that it meets your particular needs.

If you encounter any issues, please visit the Support Portal

Recommended system requirements

Processor:
2.5+ Ghz quad-core processor

Storage:
250+ GB disk space available for caching and temporary files. SSD is preferable.

RAM:
16 GB RAM with additional virtual memory*

Display:
1920 x 1080 pixel resolution

Graphics Card:
An NVIDIA or AMD graphics card with the latest drivers 8+ GB of graphics memory OpenGL 4.4 or higher support

*Use of virtual memory improves stability and helps prevent data loss on large projects.

NOTE:This information is our best recommendation for the average user. Requirements vary by usage, and individual users may have different requirements from those listed here.

Recommended graphics driver versions

Nvidia: 461.09 or later*
AMD: 8.982.8.1 or later*

*We recommend downloading latest driver version from the NVIDIA or AMD websites

Nuke
Power up your pipeline with the Nuke ecosystem, providing studios and artists with all the tools needed to create pixel-perfect content. Made up of Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Hiero, HieroPlayer and Nuke Indie, this formidable combination of tools aims to strengthen and streamline compositing, VFX editorial, conform and review workflows.

Hiero 
Your go-to for powerful multi-shot management, conform, editorial and review workflows, Hiero has the same customisable timeline as Nuke Studio, without the compositing nodegraph. Packed with procedural power to accelerate your workflow, Hiero enables you to review timelines that can be dynamically created or procedurally conformed from your database by using the Python API. Use Hiero to generate Nuke scripts and gain greater creative control from start to final delivery on any animated or VFX-heavy project.

Mari - High-resolution digital 3D texture painting
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.

Katana  - Powerful look development and lighting
Fast and formidable, Katana is a look development and lighting powerhouse that tackles creative challenges with ferocity and ease. It arms artists with the creative freedom and scalability to exceed the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.

CARA VR
IMMERSIVE DESIGN WITH CARA VR
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