Substance Designer | Automotive Essentials

Create reusable, parametric materials with Substance Designer, learning node-based logic that supports rapid CMF iteration and pipeline consistency.

Course Goals

This 5-day course introduces your designers to Substance Designer’s powerful node-based material authoring workflow.

They will learn to create custom, flexible, and optimised procedural materials that can be reused across design pipelines. The focus is on understanding core concepts, building repeatable patterns, and connecting the Designer workflow to tools like Substance Painter or Unreal Engine.

Key outcomes

• Create flexible, procedural materials using node-based workflows
• Translate real-world references into parametric material graphs
• Set up parameters for quick design iteration
• Optimise and organise graphs for clean collaboration
• Export materials for use in Painter or Unreal