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Paint in 3D in real time
Take your skill beyond the 2D canvas, and breathe life into your art. Use automatic UV unwrapping, a UDIM-based workflow, and smart masks and materials.
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Courtesy Ubisoft Québec, Framestore & Warner Bros Pictures, UE4Arch Artwork by Nikie Monteleone
Substance Suite
Inspiring content and intelligent tools to create and apply materials for 3D.
Solutions tailored for your industry
Substance Source
High-end library of materials, decals, and atlases for 3D
Camo Collection
Discover how to disappear in the wilderness with this new collection of camouflage materials
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Materials
Packaging
A complete packaging visualization toolkit – rich ink prints, embossing and waffling effects, and much more.
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Materials
Signature Collections - Pierre Fleau
Pierre Fleau found inspiration in a railway museum for his 15 signature materials reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution.
Substance Source is the largest library of procedural materials.
Optimized for production, designed with flexibility, and made with all artists in mind, the Substance Source materials are your one-stop shop for 3D creations of beauty.
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Substance Share
Materials, filters, meshes, and more: made by and for the community
Substance Share is where artists of all genres can upload and download 3D assets.
Whether you are a material expert aiming to share your work, or in search of a plugin, chances are you will find what you seek – and more.
Magazine
Get inspired with stories, interviews, tech news, and much more
The Magazine broadcasts the voices of creative 3D.
From award-winning movies to burgeoning artists, each article is designed to bridge the gaps between all the ways we do 3D.
All in all, wanting to connect and inspire.
Learning
115 courses designed by experts
How do I get started? 3D tools can sometimes feel difficult to approach.
We designed courses, from your very first steps to more advanced and industry-specific techniques, to help you broaden the scope of what you create.
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Courtesy of Industrial Light and Magic. © Marvel Studios. All rights reserved.
Early on I was really taken with the power and flexibility of Substance Designer and its ability to create endless iterations of surfaces with the same level of fidelity as scan data.
Texture Supervisor | ILM
Image courtesy of DNEG © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Substance improved our texturing workflow by allowing us to see a ‘closer to final’ result in the viewport and to help eliminate any values that were incorrect through a PBR workflow.
Build Lead | DNEG Vancouver
Image courtesy of Fisher Dai
Substance Source has freed my time. I can download rich resources directly from the ready-made material library and directly check the specific material’s look in Unreal Engine. Also, I can try different presets through the presets of the .sbsar file.
Automotive Visualizer
Art by Mike Voropaev
Substance Designer and Substance Painter are must-have tools in the game dev stack. But if you work as a product designer or 3D generalist, you can still benefit a lot from these tools, so I’d definitely recommend checking it out.
3D generalist