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Substance Engine

Allegorithmic founder pays tribute to Substance 3D staff and artists after announcing decision to 'close this chapter of my career and life'.

Monday, April 28th, 2025

Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023

Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Intriguing update to the material authoring tool lets users 'go beyond PBR texture maps' when creating Substances.

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and visualization software, including the new Attribute Transfer modifier..

Thursday, June 5th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation software, including AI animation and modular character rigging in Bifrost.

Thursday, June 5th, 2025

Epic's MetaHuman framework for creating 3D characters for games and VFX is out of early access. See its new features - and its new EULA.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Desktop photogrammetry software to be unified with Epic's free 3D scanning app for Android and iOS. Check out its upcoming features.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Check out the new features in the game engine, from major updates to Lumen and and the animation tools to the new Mocap Manager.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Artist-friendly renderfarm manager for visualization and VFX supports 3ds Max, Blender and Fusion, with C4D, Maya and Houdini to come.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025