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 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

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.4

Material authoring tool gets quality-of-life updates when working with nodes, formulas or the 3D View.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

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 Painter 2020.1

3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0

'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.

Friday, July 19th, 2019

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2019.1

Intriguing update to the material authoring tool lets users 'go beyond PBR texture maps' when creating Substances.

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.3

Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.2

Material authoring tool gets neat new 'Shape Splatter' system, plus initial release of new Python API.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 5.4

Texture-creation tool gets support for 4K monitors, neat option to reproject textures to meshes with new UVs.

Friday, May 6th, 2016

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

Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9

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

Friday, September 2nd, 2022