Substance 3D Designer

InstaMAT Studio is now available

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

ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR

Now publicly released: new sub-project of MaterialX will let artists transfer materials seamlessly between Adobe and Autodesk apps.

Monday, November 6th, 2023

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2023.2

Real-time visualization software gets Lumen real-time GI system, plus support for animated meshes and Substance materials. Price up $250.

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

Adobe unveils new Substance 3D Connector

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023