Elevate VFX and animation in film.

The toolset that covers all your texturing and lookdev needs.

Leverage the most efficient and easy-to-use toolset to create and apply materials on everything from background props to high-resolution hero assets and characters.

With its improved UDIM support, Substance 3D Painter allows you to paint materials across UV tiles smoothly while harnessing the power of Smart Materials and Substance generators.

See every stroke as if looking at the final render thanks to the high-quality real-time viewport, and share true-to-life renders using interactive path tracing in Painter and Stager.

Accelerate your VFX designs with Substance 3D.

Substance 3D apps and services can be integrated into any VFX and animation workflow and pipeline. The toolset comes with extensive scripting and automation capabilities, support for custom shaders and output templates, a collection of integrations into third-party 3D content creation tools, and full compliance with the VFX Reference Platform.

Easily export your Substance assets for use in your favorite renderer, such as Arnold, V-Ray, RenderMan, or Clarisse.

Automate the tedious parts of your workflow like baking and rendering out textures for large-scale assets or scenes with the help of the Automation Toolkit (including a Python API).

“The Automation Toolkit provided the glue to be able to batch process assets with look updates and gave us the freedom to iterate nondestructively. We could make drastic changes in the materials and bake it down into maps to be rendered in various DCC packages.”

— ELVIN SIEW, ASSETS AND ENVIRONMENTS SUPERVISOR, ILM

A vast 3D animation and VFX content library.

With more than 9,000 parametric materials and limitless possible variations, the Substance 3D asset library is a unique source of ready-to-use assets as well as an invaluable source of learning and improvement for VFX and animation artists.

The library also boasts more than 1,000 3D models, each carefully curated to provide consistent topology and UVs throughout. All assets are free to use and/or modify as part of any commercial project.

“We’ve built a library of Substance materials, shapes, and utilities within Substance Designer — artists constantly add to it. Personally, I use it nonstop…creating Substance materials that the rest of the team can use as production moves forward.”

— JOSHUA FRY, LOOK DEVELOPMENT ARTIST AT DISNEY ANIMATION

“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.”

— GARETH JENSEN, TEXTURE SUPERVISOR AT ILM