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.

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Creating an Alien Character for a Sci-Fi Short Film with Blender & Substance 3D

Artur Ledur talked to us about character development for a sci-fi short film under a one-week deadline and discussed working on the design and armor, texturing, and matching the character to the film's scenes.

Creating a Realistic 19th-Century Sewing Machine for Sierra Division's Antique Prop Challenge

Sheila Alessandrini shares the best places to go reference hunting for historic pieces, explains how she approached the polygon limitations of the challenge without sacrificing the visual complexity of the prop, and talks about how she made hand-drawn ornaments to make the texturing of her prop look more lifelike.

Storytelling Through Details: Sculpting Souls-Like Corvus Soldiers

Quentin Riviale talks about the challenges of balancing visual richness and clarity when it comes to creating characters for games, discusses the importance of using subtle visual hints to communicate crucial information to a player, and explains how he made his 3D character sculpt come to life as a 3D-printed figurine.

Watch 3D Artist Recreate 2D Anime Bus Scene In Blender

Another time-lapse from Aniket Rawat.

Desirable Patina: How to Make Realistic Rust in 3D

Loic Anquetil explains why, with rust, studying the physical complexity of the material comes before anything else, shows that Substance 3D Designer is not as complicated as you might think, and demonstrates how his exploratory approach helped him create a diverse set of realistic rust materials.

Breakdown: How to Create a Hard-Surface Philips Radio with ZBrush & Substance 3D

Ravikanth Gupta discussed the workflow behind the Philips Radio, explaining how he used a repair video to understand the radio's wear and aging, modeled the organic details in ZBrush, and used six UV sheets plus UDIMs to prepare the asset for texturing.

Get This Huge Collection Of Over 800 PBR Materials

Julio Sillet offers wood, tile, fabric, metal, concrete, and many other materials.

Breakdown: How to Create a Detailed ICA Dresden Folding Plate Camera

Rajan Verma discussed the workflow behind the ICA Antique Folding Plate Camera, explaining how he created it for a 3D art challenge that earned him first place and detailing how he built a fictional backstory and textured each part to make it look more realistic.

Building a Medieval Encaustic Floor Tile Material Using Substance 3D & UE5

Alisa Prakapenka discussed the workflow behind the Medieval Encaustic Tiles, detailing how she built height maps, grout, pattern shapes, base color, and roughness using modular subgraphs to represent clean, broken, and damaged tile states and show historical wear and aging.