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Substance 3D

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

Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Cost of Creative Cloud subscriptions up 5-10% from November for many users. New pricing for Firefly, too. Check if it affects you in our FAQs.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.

Friday, August 25th, 2023

See how 'the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer' performs with CG apps like Maya, Octane and Photoshop.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023