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www.postmagazine.com 13 POST APRIL 2018 Substance Designer is now available with UDIM support. BITS & PIECES CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE — Allegorithmic has released a new update to Substance Designer engineered to take on the high-res workflows of professional VFX artists. With the introduction of UDIM sup- port, the process of texturing large meshes will now be faster and easier, bringing Substance Designer's node-based, material authoring capabilities to a wider audience. Several VFX houses have been developing workarounds for Substance Designer, until UDIM support was officially part of the product. Now, the heavy assets favored by film artists can be outfitted with 8K textures de- signed from scratch or through scan processing tools, using a seamless workflow that fits into their pipelines. Since VFX is a demanding workflow, Allegorithmic has strengthened the entire program to match its needs, introducing new performance improvements and increased speeds of up to 30 percent when working with big graphs. Substance Designer's 3D View has also been upgraded, improving high-poly mesh loading times, and making each view bet- ter looking and faster to access. "Our new release process has allowed us to tackle bigger projects on a faster timeline, and this time we really went for the moon," says Allegorithmic found- er and CEO Dr. Sébastien Deguy. "By opening up UDIM workflows, we are not only responding to the VFX artists that need them, but the broadcast and commercial artists working on 4K workflows. Now, each user can get what they need out of the toolset, whether that's today, tomorrow or a year down the road." The latest update will also launch with nine new nodes, including one for 3D noises and another for 3D projection/selec- tion tools. The baker panel also gains a new 2D viewer, allowing artists to check their work with high-res previews. The new update to Substance Designer is available now at no cost to current subscribers. Following the trial period, individ- ual users will be able to sub- scribe to the Indie or Pro plans. Subscriptions to Substance Indie cost $19.90/month; Pro plans cost $99.90/month. ALLEGORITHMIC'S SUBSTANCE DESIGNER ADDS UDIM SUPPORT Exclusive | Premium Climate | Storm Clouds Harvey | Irma | Katrina Extreme Weather HD | Cinema 4K StormStock® stormstock.com stormstock.com