Substance is a good fit for Adobe, who has been an investor in Allegorithmic for over 2 years now, before moving to a controlling ownership. Allegorithmic’s 140 person team now joins Adobe’s 21,000 employees. While Photoshop has been key to 3D for decades, this is one of Adobe’s biggest moves yet to move into 3D. Adobe has no core 3D animation product, nor a (Ray Tracing) production renderer. While Substance really earned its reputation in Games, Adobe will be seeking to expand its use into product design, print and interactive. “We are excited to join the team, bring together the strength of Allegorithmic’s industry-leading tools with the Creative Cloud platform and transform the way businesses create powerful, interactive content and experiences.” “Allegorithmic and Adobe share the same passion for bringing inspiring technologies to creators,” said Sebastien Deguy, CEO and founder, Allegorithmic. Allegorithmic is the leader in 3D material and texture authoring for most AAA1 gaming franchises, including Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Forza, and is used in many award-winning movies, including Blade Runner 2049, Pacific Rim Uprising and others.

thesis, about a mathematical model for stochastic, self-similar processes called ‘td-MAP’, that would later be implemented as the ‘FX-Maps’ in Substance Designer” he said. Allegorithmic is the combination of ‘Allegoric’ and ‘Algorithmic’. The logo was designed by Julien Benassi, the son of Deguy’s PhD advisor.Īllegorithmic is based in France and has a diverse customer base across gaming, film and television, ecommerce, retail, automotive, architecture, design and advertising industries, including leading creative brands like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, BMW, Ikea, Louis Vuitton, Foster + Partners and more. Deguy decided to create a company, and came up with the name ‘Allegorithmic’, on December 22, 2001.

Adobe substance part of creative cloud