Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.0
Big update to the material-authoring software adds new 3D renderer and the option to import entire USD scenes to edit materials in context.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
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Substance 3D creator Sébastien Deguy to leave Adobe
Allegorithmic founder pays tribute to Substance 3D staff and artists after announcing decision to 'close this chapter of my career and life'.
Monday, April 28th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 11.0
Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting app, including an Auto-update system, and more path tools, filters and texture generators.
Monday, March 17th, 2025
Adobe to raise the price of Substance 3D subscriptions
Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Adobe launches unmetered access to Substance 3D Assets
Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 14.1
Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including updates to the Spline tools and node graph.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Photoshop users can now create filters in Substance 3D Designer
Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 14.0
Material authoring software gets new color-manipulation nodes for stylizing images and generating color palettes and ID maps.
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
SideFX releases Houdini 20.5: check out its five key features
Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR 1.0
New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 10.0
3D texture painting software gets streamlined new workflow for handling text, and support for Adobe Illustrator .ai files.
Friday, May 17th, 2024
The making-of for Watermelon Girl charts a five-year labor of love
Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Connector
Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.
Friday, April 5th, 2024