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Substance Designer cleans up its nodes
Cleaner graphs, smarter noise, and a friendlier graph creation UI: Substance 3D Designer 15.1 focuses on making material authoring less fiddly.
Ribbon Rules: Substance Painter 11.1 goes Vulkan
11.1 trades OpenGL for Vulkan and adds a precise Ribbon tool, symmetry for fill layers, physical-size displacement, and 75 new presets.
New After Effects Stuff!
Adobe has rolled out major updates to After Effects, enhancing 3D workflows for motion designers and VFX professionals. The new features focus on embedding 3D animations, improving shadows, and offering more depth mapping options.
Autodesk releases Maya 2024
Autodesk has released Maya 2024. The updates include enhancements to the Retopology toolset, a new USD-based material autthoring and new brush-based workflows for sculpting animation curves. Also new: native Apple Silicon support, the Bifrost multiphysics plugin and the MtoA plugin for the Arnold renderer, which run on M1 and M2 processors.
After Effects! Substance! Oscars!
And once again news from Adobe: After Effects now supports every variant of OCIO and ACES, Substance Designer has received a bugfix, and there's also a Tech Oscar for the Substance team!
Substance 3D Sampler 3.3 released!
From Adobe: Version 3.3 of the 3D tool for surfaces. You can expect: new functions for working with materials and ambient lighting. Also: Tutorial for "Getting started with Lighting Environments" available!
Trimsheet Maker Pro | Add-on
The pro tool among the trim sheet helpers? "3D CG Guru" helps you in Substance 3D Designer.
All GDC 2019 Substance Talks about Material and Texturing Pipelines are online: In addition to Odyssey and Spider-Man, the developers also presented new tools and features.
What‘s next in Blender?
At FMX 2O18 we caught up with Ton Roosendaal – head of the Blender Foundation and the guy who turned the package into an open-source tool. And when you are already in Stuttgart, why not ask a few questions?
21 free alpha masks
New free stuff: Free hardsurface alpha masks by game artist Dan Rožański. The total of 21 alphas can also be used for commercial purposes!
Allegorithmic: Substance Painter 2.5
The Allegorithmic update cascade continues: Substance Painter 2.5 with parallax occlusion mapping, colour management and brush opacity.