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Substance 3D

New app lets users carry out shared online design reviews of 3D models, either in a standard web browser, or in room-scale VR.

Sunday, August 17th, 2025

Interesting new tool for creating VFX for games generates both 2D and 3D assets for FX like magic and energy from a single node graph.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Substance 3D pioneer's new venture after leaving Adobe is a real-time digital puppeteering firm creating gaming and animation content.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.

Friday, February 21st, 2025

New generative AI model let users create video, animation and even stock FX clips from text prompts and images. Read our FAQs about it.

Wednesday, February 12th, 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

Real-time visualization tool is free for commercial use to anyone earning under $1 million/year. See what else is new in Twinmotion 2023.2.4.

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024

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

Monday, March 18th, 2024

Open-source tech converts 3D models, materials and animation data between USD and FBX, glTF, OBJ, PLY and STL formats.

Thursday, March 7th, 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

Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024