Substance 3D Designer's creators win Sci-Tech Awards

Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

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

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.1

Material authoring tool once known as Substance Alchemist gets new Color Picker, support for SVG files.

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

Adobe discontinues Photoshop's 3D features

Still available in current builds for a 'short time', but users are advised to switch to the Substance apps.

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021

Adobe apologises to asset creators for Substance promos

Uncredited use of Greyscalegorilla and HDRI Haven content in videos for the Substance 3D Collection was 'a mistake'.

Monday, June 28th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.0

Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Adobe launches the Substance 3D Collection

Adobe's Substance applications get new names, new logos, new products and new bundle pricing.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Epic Games buys ArtStation

Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

Download the new free materials on Substance Source

Get 25 free scan-based procedural materials of natural environments and debris, all in .sbsar format.

Sunday, March 21st, 2021

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1

3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.2

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited ability to paint across UDIM tiles. Check out the other new features here.

Friday, July 24th, 2020

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