Substance 3D Designer

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting app, including an Auto-update system, and more path tools, filters and texture generators.

Monday, March 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

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

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including updates to the Spline tools and node graph.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Material authoring software gets new color-manipulation nodes for stylizing images and generating color palettes and ID maps.

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

3D texture painting software gets streamlined new workflow for handling text, and support for Adobe Illustrator .ai files.

Friday, May 17th, 2024

Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

Free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Mari adds powerful new Node Editor and Ramp Editor.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.

Friday, April 5th, 2024

Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024