Adobe Substance 3D

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Adobe Substance 3D brings you an ecosystem of apps and content that empower you to design 3D.

Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Painter has the tools you need to texture your 3D assets, from advanced brushes to Smart Materials that automatically adapt to your model. Breathe life into your art. Substance 3D Painter is widely used in game and movie production as well as in product design, fashion, and architecture. It’s a go-to 3D texturing app for creative professionals everywhere.

Painter helps you achieve the look you want, from product design to realistic games and visual effects to projects such as stylized animation. Use Smart Materials that adjust to any object to show realistic surface detail or wear and tear. Explore mask presets that adapt to any shape, and paint with efficient, dynamic tools.

The state-of-the-art viewport in Painter shows all your artistic decisions in real time. Iterate on complex materials with advanced lighting and shadows, making texturing even more creative and painless. You can even preview your model in the included path tracing mode.

Adobe Substance 3D Designer

With Substance 3D Designer, create seamless materials and patterns, image filters, environment lights, or even 3D models. Each asset can output infinite variations. Substance 3D Designer is used across many industries and is at the center of most video game and visual effects material pipelines. Substance parametric materials are supported in most 3D creation tools and will integrate seamlessly into any workflow. Send your materials directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager.

The node-based workflow allows you to use a wide range of approaches. Any step of the process can always be modified later. Try everything, adjust anytime.

Designer comes with a rich node library to create your assets from scratch. Build upon and learn from thousands of materials from Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets.

Generate dynamic 3D models, or combine existing elements like curves and kitbash models. Create parametric environment lights to use in any app supported by Substance 3D.

Adobe Substance 3D Sampler

Substance 3D Sampler is at the heart of your 3D workflow. Easily transform a real-life picture into a photorealistic surface or HDR environment. Easily import a reference photo or snap one on the go with Adobe Capture and transform it into a high-quality 3D material with features powered by Adobe Sensei. Closely match the original real-life surface and create seamless tileable materials from your captures.

Combine multiple materials and parametric filters to create more advanced surfaces. Access thousands of materials on Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets. The possibilities are endless.

Drag and drop your image, add a couple of prebuilt filters, and voila — a library of one-click generators, filters, and effects lets you quickly experiment and get results in just a few clicks. Send your assets directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager.

Adobe Substance 3D Stager

Build and assemble 3D scenes in this intuitive staging tool. Set up assets, materials, lights, and cameras. Export and share media, from images to web and AR experiences. Substance 3D Stager lets you make creative decisions in context. Refine and adjust your composition in real time. Visualize and edit advanced materials with complex lighting and shadows.

Build your realistic 3D scenes with quick and efficient smart tools. Block out shapes, snap elements, activate physics to avoid collisions between models, and generate simple lights.

Stager comes with models, materials, and lights to get started. Or explore and use the thousands of high-end assets made by our 3D experts and included with your Substance 3D Collection plan.

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Adobe Substance 3D Modeler

Adobe Substance 3D Modeler makes modeling in 3D feel as gestural and natural as drawing. Encourage your creative flow in this flexible and powerful 3D shaping tool. With an intuitive design, Modeler frees you from the technical constraints of traditional 3D modeling. Focus purely on the creative process and create simple 3D models or complex, fully conceived 3D scenes.

Modeler is a flexible tool for creating concept art, sketching and prototyping, blocking out game levels, crafting detailed characters or props, or sculpting an entire scene. All in one app.

The powerful tools in Modeler work seamlessly across both desktop and VR. Create with the hardware that empowers you best at each step of your creative workflow.

Substance 3D Assets

Access over 15,000 customizable models, lights, and materials created by world-class artists, for every industry. The Substance 3D Assets library has what you need for each part of your creative workflow.

Adobe Substance 3DRecent articles

How To Make Stylized Hair Look Like Curves In Maya

There's also a Blender version available.

Modeling and Texturing Assets and Foliage for a Detailed 3D Environment

Elie Paquiet discussed the workflow behind The Courtyard project, detailing how he made a modular building kit with 3m, 4.5m, and 6m scales, built his own multi-layer shader, and created the foliage using real plant photos as reference.

Building a Procedural Shell Grotto with Substance 3D Designer & Unreal Engine

Coraline Lyu spoke about the creation process behind the Shell Grotto project, explaining how she aimed to capture the identity of the Shell Grotto in England, how she built two separate node-based systems, and detailing how she assembled the ornamental wall patterns.

Sculpting a Dark Fantasy Character with Clockwork Elements & Religious Imagery

Kang Jeong discussed the workflow behind the CLOCK SAINT project, explaining how he sculpted the character by dividing it into four sections and detailing how he managed the Metallic and Roughness values in the materials to achieve the religious look.

Creating an Alien Shaman CG Character Using ZBrush, Mari & Maya

Ronja Stucken discussed the workflow behind the Nymera project, explaining how she used real-world skin and anatomy references, sculpted from large to small forms, and used an Arnold skin shader for texturing.

Recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls as a Cinematic Character

Margarida Coelho spoke about the creation process behind the Almalexia fanart, discussing how she sculpted the face, anatomy, muscles, and skin using custom brushes and hand-sculpting techniques, and explaining how she created the armor and the mask.

Creating a Stylized 3D Character Based on a 64×64 Pixel Sprite from Pokémon

Paul Thureau spoke about the creation process behind the Pokémaniac project, explaining how he translated a tiny 2D pixel into a 3D character, modeled it in pose, and detailed how he textured the eyes and clothes.

Modeling & Texturing a Detailed Dormitory Scene with a Hand-Painted Style

Morgane Muller discussed the workflow behind the Spellbound Dormitory project, explaining how she divided the scene into individual elements and detailing how she hand-painted everything and achieved the illusion of translucency in the stained glass.

Sculpting and Texturing a Fungal Creature Inspired by The Last of Us

Kamil Tondera spoke about the creation process behind the Fungal Creature project, explaining which tools he used to create the vines and bark elements, and detailing how he achieved the organic appearance with hand-painted materials.