Substance Alchemist | Substance 3D

Create & digitize realistic materials for 3D

Substance Alchemist is your definitive scan processing resource.
AI powered, Alchemist enables you to easily create high-resolution, digital materials for a range of 3D projects.

Modify existing 3D materials or make new, photorealistic materials from photographs and scans.

Build a specific catalog of materials from real-world references, or experiment until you find the results you love. In all cases, Alchemist brings phenomenal speed and ease of use to your workflow.

AI Powered: transform 2D Photos into 3D Materials

Easily import a reference photo into Alchemist and transform it into a high-quality 3D material.
This entire process takes a few seconds. Our delighter feature powered by Adobe Sensei removes shadows and enables you to achieve realistic materials from your captures.

1-click generators

Craft digital materials instantaneously.
Select a base material and apply one of Alchemist’s filters; within seconds, you’ve created a complex 3D material.
Use Alchemist’s intuitive interface to modify the material to suit your needs.

Combine 3D materials

Take existing materials and blend together seamlessly. Create hyper-realistic combinations of complex materials: tree bark with moss or stone with pebbles. Unlimited possibilities exist.

Define your blending criteria from options such as height, color, or custom masks to ensure uniform blending.

Achieve incredible results, all while increasing your productivity of 3D material creation.

Create Material Collections

Substance Alchemist's collection feature helps you build vast material libraries. Use moddboards to generate many variations of your materials.

Key Features

Material blending

Combine two or more materials to create complex surfaces easily.

Automatic color variation

Extract colors and generate libraries of variations.

Conversion of single images to 3D materials

Create a material from a single photo

Multi-angle images to 3D materials

Dedicated scan-processing workflow.

Delighter

Remove shadows with machine learning algorithms.

Atlas Splatter

Scatter leaves, pebbles, and more, on your material.

.sbsar export

Export Substance materials compatible with every 3D application out there.

Embedded filters and generators

Add your own content, created in Substance Designer.

Substance is built for you

Games

Whether you need to put together a quick prototype, dive into an Indie project or power a massive AAA production, Substance is the reference toolset for 3D materials.

Film

The Substance toolset is on its way to become an integral part of every film creation. From commercials to feature films and TV shows, Substance tools and materials have already been used on two Academy Award winners for best special effects.

Design

Take your product visualization to a new level of realism. Whether you need quick, iterative, inspirational tools and content, or massive production engines, Substance is the leading toolset for 3D materials.

Fashion

Take your product visualization to a new level of realism. Substance materials are cross-platform by definition — explore Substance workflows and integration in your favorite apps!

Architecture

As real-time architecture visualization is becoming the new immersive way to present projects, more and more architects and designers are adopting Substance.

Transportation

As real-time design, including VR and AR, is becoming the new immersive way to present projects, more and more artists are adopting Substance.

An Industry Standard

The Substance format works with every tool of your 3D creation workflow.

Our team develops and maintains integrations with all the major 3D apps. And the Substance format is an industry standard, readable and useable in every tool dedicated to 3D.

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They use Substance

Substance Alchemist was essential for me to get as close as possible to how I wanted the look of the materials, and to make these small modifications that I needed quickly.

Lucas Lino
Architecture Student

We’ve recently tried Substance Alchemist and, although I feel I have just scratched the surface of the program, its potential seems incredible.

Roberto De Rose
Art Director | State of Art Studio

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