Free tool: Rakurri Brush Tip Maker
Generate custom brush shapes for use in digital painting software like Photoshop, Krita and Corel Painter.
Friday, November 11th, 2022
Substance 3D Designer
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.3
Material authoring app's modelling toolset gets support for subgraphs, plus new curve-editing nodes.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.2
Check out the new features in the biggest update to the 3D texturing painting software 'in quite a while'.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
All of the Substance 3D tools are now free to students
Use Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Designer, Stager and Modeler for free, including on portfolio material.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
Substance 3D Painter will soon export .sbsar files
Sneak peek: see all of the new features due in the October update to Adobe's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4
Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Tutorial: Creating Stylized VFX in Unreal Engine 5
Create a game-ready magic attack using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Saturday, August 6th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.2
Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
Free feather and hair nodes for Substance 3D Designer
Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Photoshop now supports Substance .sbsar materials
Updated: see the UI and feature list for the Substance plugin available in the new beta build of Photoshop.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022