Substance in Design

Video: Art by Ronan Mahon
Image: Art by Mike Voropaev

Substance is made for you

As real-time design, including VR and AR, is becoming the new immersive way to present projects, more and more artists are adopting Substance. Whether you need quick, iterative, inspirational tools and content, or massive production engines, Substance is the reference toolset for 3D materials.

Take your product visualization to a new level of realism. Substance materials are cross-platform by definition — further integrations include V-Ray, Maya and CATIA.

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Make your designs truly lifelike.

Substance-Source-Hero-suite — Art by Ronan Mahon

Ready-to-use 3D material library

In Substance Source, browse and download high-end fully customizable materials, including regular curated content for inspiration.

Materials include presets for faster iteration and .sbs source files.

Advanced material authoring & scan processing

Create any kind of material, from the fully procedural to the scan-based hybrid, complete with presets, using the industry standard software for material authoring.

Produce tileable textures up to 8K, and export to any 3D tool, game engine, or renderer.

Texture your models for scene, real-time experience & AR/VR

Everything you need to texture your 3D assets in one application.

Unleash your creativity with powerful tools and a non-destructive workflow. Substance Painter has smart materials, smart masks, and integrated 8K bakers and a WYSIWYG PBR real-time viewport.

They create with Substance

Substance has helped optimize Shopify's modeling workflow, saving us countless hours so that we can spend more time focusing on the problems that really matter to our merchants.
Byron Delgado 3D artist | Shopify

Courtesy of Shopify

We’ve been waiting for a solution like Project Substance Alchemist for a long time. […] With tools like Project Substance Alchemist and Material Exchange, suppliers will have the resources they need to begin their digital revolution.
Chris Hillyer Director of Innovation | Deckers Brands

Art by Vladimir Petkovic

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.
Mike Voropaev 3D generalist

Art by Mike Voropaev

I wasn't a big fan of texturing before, but since Substance that has changed. You can make variations very quickly, it's all interactive, it's easy to manage projects.
Peter Kolus 3D Artist | Freelance

Art by Peter Kolus