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
Substance 3D Sampler
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk announce OpenPBR
New sub-project of MaterialX will let artists transfer materials seamlessly between Adobe and Autodesk apps.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
Download free 3D resources from Substance 3D Assets
Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.1
Material authoring and 3D capture software gets new Paint Warp filter to straighten scanned textures.
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.0
Major update to the material authoring tool adds intuitive new AI-assisted 3D scanning toolset.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
All of the Substance 3D tools are now free to students
Use Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Designer, Stager and Modeler for free, including on portfolio material.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
Sneak peek: Substance 3D Sampler's 3D scanning tools
Check out the material authoring app's highly automated new 'best in class' photogrammetry toolset.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4
Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.3.1
Latest update to the material authoring software adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fill in Substance 3D Sampler
Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.
Thursday, March 24th, 2022