Substance Insights

What is Substance?

Substance is a suite of software tools developed by Adobe (formerly Allegorithmic) for creating and manipulating 3D textures and materials. It's widely used in game development, visual effects, architecture, and product design for generating realistic and customizable textures. Substance allows for non-destructive workflows, meaning changes can be made at any point without having to redo work from scratch. Key components include Substance Painter (for painting textures directly onto 3D models), Substance Designer (for creating procedural materials), and Substance Alchemist (for material authoring based on scanned data or existing textures).

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What other technologies are related to Substance?

Substance Complementary Technologies

Zbrush

ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool often used in conjunction with Substance for creating high-resolution details and textures.

mentioned alongside Substance in 10% (910) of relevant job posts

Maya

Maya is a 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. It is complementary as assets created in Maya often utilize textures and materials created or modified in Substance.

mentioned alongside Substance in 4% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

Houdini

Houdini is a 3D animation and visual effects software with procedural capabilities. It complements Substance by providing a platform to integrate Substance-created textures and materials into complex visual effects pipelines.

mentioned alongside Substance in 8% (825) of relevant job posts