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

Sneak peeks: Adobe's Project Perfect Blend and Project Scenic

Interesting experimental AI technologies relight images during compositing, and use 3D to guide the layout of 2D images.

Thursday, October 17th, 2024

Adobe adds Firefly generative AI features to Substance 3D tools

Substance 3D Sampler and Substance 3D Stager get new AI-powered Text to Texture and Generative Background features.

Monday, March 18th, 2024

PhyX Drag brings physics-based object placement to Blender

New $10 add-on brings simple Houdini-style physics-based scene layout workflows to the open-source 3D software.

Thursday, December 28th, 2023

Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Scene Change

Interesting experimental AI tech composites an actor from one shot into the environment from another without roto or 3D tracking.

Thursday, October 12th, 2023

Adobe unveils new Substance 3D Connector

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

Download free 3D resources from Substance 3D Assets

Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

Sneak peek: RTX ray tracing in Substance 3D Modeler

Check out the upcoming features in Adobe's digital sculpting software, like real-time ray traced lighting.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Artistic Scenes

Neat new AI tech shown at Adobe Sneaks 2022 transfers the style of a 2D image to an entire 3D scene.

Thursday, October 20th, 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

Download Andrew Averkin's free 3ds Max Assembly Tool

Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Monday, August 15th, 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

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.3.1

Latest update to the material authoring software adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022