Substance 3D Designer 15.1 Released
12 December 2025 - Introducing a revamped graph creation window, enhanced noises, an improved node menu hierarchy, and more.
How To Create Chinese Yuan Coin Material
12 December 2025 - Dai Qi Yu told us about his Chinese-inspired coin material made with ZBrush and Substance 3D Designer, describing how each denomination was crafted.
Creating Animated Painterly Forest Using SpeedTree, Substance 3D, & UE5
11 December 2025 - Anastasia Kasyanik talked to us about her unfinished personal project with beautiful hand-painted forest scenes, explaining how she crafted the picturesque environments with SpeedTree, Substance 3D Painter, and Photoshop.
Setting Up a Realistic 3D Toymaker's Workshop Environment
05 December 2025 - Timothy Lee spoke about the Toy Makers Workshop project, explained how the scene's assets and materials were made, and showcased the lighting setup.
Chinese Crafting Technique Recreated Using Substance 3D
03 December 2025 - Cino Lai shared another impressive work.
Take a Look at These Stunning Water VFX Created with Unity
02 December 2025 - The artist showcased the technical setups.
Paying Tribute to Swedish Nature With a Detailed Witch's Hut Scene
01 December 2025 - Lena Danilova walked us through the workflow behind the Witch's Hut project, detailing how she made the nature and how she used SpeedTree to add color variation and assign weights to the needle materials to get a more natural look in the branches.
Modeling & Texturing a 3D Chinatown Environment
28 November 2025 - Klara Jug explained how she created the Chinatown Street project, going in-depth on the texturing pipeline and showing the working process behind the decals.
Setting Up a Detailed Snow Shader in Unreal Engine 5
27 November 2025 - Daniil Spivak talked about the snow shader project, explained how he made the snow look soft and more translucent around the edges using the Fresnel node, and showed how he achieved the sparkling effect.
Breakdown: Setting Up a Detailed Windmill Environment in 3D
27 November 2025 - Adelyn Sultan shared an in-depth breakdown of her Windmill After The Rain project, discussing the material creation pipeline and showing how the lighting was set up.
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