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Substance Designer

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

Get to grips with the powerful procedural material-authoring software with The Gnomon Workshop's artist-friendly guide.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

Discover how to create industry-standard games materials with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2023

Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.

Friday, September 2nd, 2022

Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.

Monday, July 11th, 2022

Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.

Thursday, January 27th, 2022

Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.

Sunday, October 10th, 2021