Substance 3D at Adobe Max
We have an extensive program at this year's Adobe Max, featuring Substance 3D-related Labs, Sessions, Talks, and more. Attend in-person or online. Develop your skills, learn new workflows, and experience the power of 3D!
PRECONFERENCE
Unlock your 3D Potential
Sunday, October 13 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EST)
Product: Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Stager, Assets
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Platform: PC
Product: Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Stager, Assets
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Platform: PC
Laurens Corijn, Lead Technical Artist, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
Laurens Corijn is a lead technical artist with a background in videogames, having worked at Splash Damage (project Dirty Bomb) in London and EA Dice in Stockholm (Mirror's Edge Catalyst). His focus is on procedural, smart workflows, and enabling other artists to create better work in a more efficient way. These days he mainly works on training and education for Substance 3D.
Louise Melin, Technical Artist, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
A self-taught 3D artist, Louise is a former Philosophy teacher. Specializing in Aesthetics, she decided to quit academia to dedicate her time to her passion for 3D art in general, and texturing in particular. Louise is now a Technical Artist for 3D & Immersive at Adobe.
Advance your design skills with 3D technology from the Adobe Substance 3D Collection in this full-day, hands-on lab. Discover how to enhance designs with 3D concepts and create amazing looks that are impossible without 3D. Join Adobe 3D & Immersive experts Louise Melin, 3D technical artist, and Laurens Corijn, head of Substance Learn, to gain techniques that allow you to confidently use 3D in your creative workflows.
Learn how to accelerate your creativity with camera, lighting, and material editing tools, leverage photorealistic textures, and combine 3D techniques with traditional design to add depth, volume, and new perspectives to your creative output.
You’ll discover how to:
- Create textures and 3D models from photographs of real-world objects and surfaces using Substance 3D Sampler
- Interactively paint materials onto 3D models to create unique textured looks using Substance 3D Painter
- Leverage 3D assets to visualize your designs in context and output photorealistic images with Substance Stager
- Interactively paint materials onto 3D models to create unique textured looks using Substance 3D Painter
- Leverage 3D assets to visualize your designs in context and output photorealistic images with Substance Stager
Labs
If the shoe fits, make it fab with Substance 3D Painter
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: Substance 3D Painter
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Platform: PC
Product: Substance 3D Painter
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Platform: PC
Emily Bisset, 3D Technical Artist, Adobe
Emily is a 3D Technical Artist at Adobe. With a background in product and fashion visualization, she enjoys all aspects of the 3D pipeline but specializes in texturing and look development. She is always excited to hear about and discuss the latest 3D art trends and whether they can streamline current 3D workflows. Emily takes great enjoyment showing people new ways to make their design processes easier, which is why she loves talking about and teaching Substance 3D tools!
Sneakers, trainers, or kicks — create a custom design on a 3D shoe with 3D artist Emily Bisset. Learn how to use Substance 3D Painter to craft unique textures directly on 3D models and turn a generic object into a personal statement. This lab is great for designers with a basic knowledge of 3D models and texture maps.
Join Emily to get started and see how to:
- Incorporate Painter into your existing creative process for greater texturing accuracy
- Use techniques and tools like 3D paths, particle brushes, and mask layering to design more efficiently in a nondestructive manner
- Bring custom artwork from Illustrator into your design in Painter
- Use techniques and tools like 3D paths, particle brushes, and mask layering to design more efficiently in a nondestructive manner
- Bring custom artwork from Illustrator into your design in Painter
TURN UP YOUR 2D DESIGNS WITH 3D DELIGHT
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: Illustrator, Photoshop, Substance 3D Stager
Technical Level: Intermediate
Platform: PC
Product: Illustrator, Photoshop, Substance 3D Stager
Technical Level: Intermediate
Platform: PC
Nikie Monteleone, Manager, Substance Creative Workflows, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
Nikie Monteleone currently spends her days working on new and exciting creative workflows with the Art & Development team at Adobe Substance. With 20 years of entertainment industry and graphic design experience, her specialty is making things look shiny, matte, dull, bright, realistic, or stylized with textures, materials, and lighting. She has worked with some of the top animation studios including Nickelodeon, DreamWorksTV, LAIKA Studios and their spin off studio HouseSpecial on a wide range of TV series, commercials and movies. Now stepping into the tech world, she is using that experience to push creative boundaries by breaking buttons and pushing pixels to help create more artist friendly workflows! When she's not busy doing what she loves, catch her in LA enjoying any and all types of cheese with her adorably cute but crazy Boston Terrier.
By popular demand, Nikie Monteleone, 3D artist at Adobe, is back with tips and techniques in Substance 3D Stager to help you achieve photorealistic appeal in less time. Using typography as the focus, she’ll show you how to work with lights, cameras, and editing tools to create, stage, and render an eye-catching scene constructed from 3D assets. This lab highlights the complementary relationship between Creative Cloud apps and Stager to bring new perspectives to your designs.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create, prep, and export your Illustrator 3D type designs
- Work with staging, materials, lighting, and rendering using Substance 3D Stager
- Composite and complete your render in Photoshop
- Work with staging, materials, lighting, and rendering using Substance 3D Stager
- Composite and complete your render in Photoshop
Color, Materials, and Finish Design with Substance 3D
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Stager
Technical Level: General Audience
Platform: PC
Product: Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Stager
Technical Level: General Audience
Platform: PC
Nick Sharma, Sr. Industrial Design Evangelist, Adobe
Nick Sharma is senior industrial design evangelist at Adobe, with a background in industrial design for some of the most recognizable brands in the world. With a focus on the footwear and apparel industries, Nick has applied his creative skills at the Innovation Design team at Adidas, the 3D Design & Engineering group at Lululemon’s footwear division, and as textile specialist for Hua Fung Textiles. He has covered most bases in the industrial sportswear world and worked with multiple startups to ideate, create and launch new products. Nick has a passion for sharing his expertise and has taught designers across multiple major sportswear companies to embrace the latest 3D tools and workflows.
Explore the 3D workflows for CMF (Color, Materials, Finish) design in the industrial, automotive, and packaging industries. Join Nick Sharma, senior industrial design evangelist at Adobe, to discover how your CMF designs can be faster, more accurate, and more useful with Substance 3D. Nick will cover the basics of using Substance 3D Sampler, Painter, and Stager; highlight unique challenges and solutions in CMF design; and show how to speed up your design workflows. For this session, some 3D experience is helpful but not required.
You'll learn how to:
- Scan and capture accurate 3D materials from a supplier book using Sampler
- Set up colorways and apply photorealistic materials to a product model with Painter
- Explore multiple colorways and apply unique finishes
- Export 3D assets and use Stager to create final product renderings
- Set up colorways and apply photorealistic materials to a product model with Painter
- Explore multiple colorways and apply unique finishes
- Export 3D assets and use Stager to create final product renderings
Expand your Design Skills with Substance 3D Sampler
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: Illustrator, Substance 3D Sampler
Technical Level: Beginner
Product: Illustrator, Substance 3D Sampler
Technical Level: Beginner
Anna Natter, Substance 3D Design Evangelist, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
Anna is a 3D artist whose work is focused on digital art, 3D design and branding. She works at Adobe as the Substance 3D Design Evangelist. Using her strong design sense and inspirational creativity, Anna empowers the Substance Community and is an influential voice for the Substance 3D Brand.
Discover how to craft stunning brand elements that deliver compelling visual stories using 3D tools. Join Anna Natter, 3D artist at Adobe, and dive into the world of 3D material creation. You’ll use Substance 3D Sampler and Illustrator to transform a photo into a unique texture to create memorable design assets that can supercharge your brand’s identity. This lab is perfect for graphic designers who want to master the essential techniques of material creation and application.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use Sampler to create and modify a material from an image
- Apply materials to a 3D model
- Explore methods to create textures that align with a brand identity
- Apply materials to a 3D model
- Explore methods to create textures that align with a brand identity
Master 3D with After Effects and Substance 3D
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Wes McDermott, Head of Substance 3D Evangelism, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
Wes McDermott is a technical artist and strives to improve his work by finding a balance between technical knowledge and artistic expression. He leads the Worldwide Substance 3D Evangelism team at Adobe and is known as an expert Substance teacher and the voice behind many Substance tutorials and presentations. Wes is also the author of The PBR Guide: A Handbook for Physically-Based Rendering, Real Word MODO, and Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone with Unity.
Robert Hranitzky, Sr. Professional Video Evangelist, Adobe
Robert is a filmmaker and motion designer and works at Adobe on the Video Evangelism Team. With more than 20 years of industry experience in motion design, 2D/3D animation, and creative direction for projects ranging from opening titles to film and showroom trailers, he loves to inspire and give back to the creative community. He is a sought-after speaker on many industry events around the globe and enjoys sharing his passion for directing, making movies, VFX, and motion graphics. When he is not entangled between keyframes, you can find him most likely either playing or watching Basketball.
Discover how to use the Substance 3D Collection to create physically based materials, work with environment lighting, and uniquely texture models to produce striking 3D visuals in After Effects. Join Adobe experts Wes McDermott and Robert Hranitzky to learn practical and professional 3D techniques for creating photorealistic and stylized 3D for motion design.
In this session you'll:
- Learn how to quickly generate parametric materials using Substance 3D Sampler
- Explore Substance 3D Painter for detailed texturing work and import textured models directly into After Effects composites
- Dive into native 3D capabilities in After Effects, learning how to work with animated 3D models, custom environment lighting, 3D channels effects, and more
- Gain an understanding of best practices and tips to maximize the quality of your 3D content in After Effects
- Explore Substance 3D Painter for detailed texturing work and import textured models directly into After Effects composites
- Dive into native 3D capabilities in After Effects, learning how to work with animated 3D models, custom environment lighting, 3D channels effects, and more
- Gain an understanding of best practices and tips to maximize the quality of your 3D content in After Effects
2D to 3D: Moving into the next dimension with After Effects
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Modeler
Technical Level: Intermediate
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Modeler
Technical Level: Intermediate
Ian Robinson, Creative Director and Motion Graphics Trainer, Creative 111
Ian Robinson is a creative director and trainer specializing in motion graphics and visual effects. Working in broadcast for over 20 years with such clients as Discovery Channel, National Geographic International, PBS, and Google. Over the last several years he has enjoyed watching the definition of “broadcast” evolve first hand. As an author and trainer, Ian is the co-founder of the online learning website Creative111, an author for LinkedInLearn- ing, and has written books for Peachpit and Adobe Press. When he’s not designing or teaching, you can often find him exploring the rocky mountains of Colorado.
Join Ian Robinson, owner and trainer at Creative 111, as he shares his most valuable tips and techniques for taking 2D motion designs into 3D space. Make your product motion graphics stand out with animated models, lights, cameras, shadows, and more. You’ll learn what to do and what not to do when moving into the third dimension.
This session will cover how to:
- Transition from 2D to 3D and effectively build your composition
- Work faster in the third dimension with the Properties panel
- Get comfortable with 3D cameras, lights, shadows, and materials
- Use fundamental camera rigging for more direct control of cameras and camera settings
- Transform your product models from average to spectacular using Substance 3D
- Work faster in the third dimension with the Properties panel
- Get comfortable with 3D cameras, lights, shadows, and materials
- Use fundamental camera rigging for more direct control of cameras and camera settings
- Transform your product models from average to spectacular using Substance 3D
THE ART OF 3D AND MOTION DESIGN WITH CANTINA CREATIVE
Date | Time: COMING SOON
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Stager, Substance 3D Assets
Product: After Effects, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Stager, Substance 3D Assets
Join us for an exciting journey into the heart of cinematic imagination with Cantina Creative, the heroes behind some of today’s most iconic motion design visuals. Co-founder Stephen Lawes and motion design artist Julianne Dome will reveal their secrets to crafting 3D motion design for blockbuster hits like the Marvel franchise and The Hunger Games series. Cantina Creative can show you how to transform any brand assets into detailed 3D works of art.
You'll learn how to:
- Seamlessly blend artistry and technology to build tactile-looking motion designs using After Effects and Substance 3D
- Craft every detail of 3D assets to achieve stunning looks — and embrace imperfections — along the way
- Assemble 3D scenes using techniques based on real-world production that transforms a project from ordinary to extraordinary
- Craft every detail of 3D assets to achieve stunning looks — and embrace imperfections — along the way
- Assemble 3D scenes using techniques based on real-world production that transforms a project from ordinary to extraordinary
