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3D modeling and animation tool gets updates to the ML Deformer and liquid simulation in Bifrost. Check out all the new features here.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Get the new version of the free Blender plugin for importing and editing Substance .sbsar materials, now available for Blender 4.0.

Thursday, February 29th, 2024

Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024

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

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

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

Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022

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

Wednesday, July 20th, 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

Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2021

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

Thursday, June 24th, 2021