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    Adobe Substance 3D Collection

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Substance 3D is a suite of apps that support 3D design, including texture assets and rendering tools. Workflows can connect to Adobe Creative Cloud apps.N/A

    Autodesk Maya

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAutodesk offers Maya, a 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering tool available to artists, animators, and educators, used to create realistic characters, models, and scenes, as well as effects such as explosions, cloth movement, etc.

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    Adobe Substance 3D CollectionAutodesk Maya
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    Monthly
    $235
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    Yearly
    $1875
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    3-Year
    $5625
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    Adobe Substance 3D CollectionAutodesk Maya
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMaya is also available through Autodesk's Flex plan and pricing. Tokens expire 1 year from date of purchase. Not all products and features are available with Flex. Students and teachers at qualified academic institutions worldwide are eligible for free access to Autodesk software for one-year through the Autodesk Education Community.
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    Adobe Substance 3D CollectionAutodesk Maya
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    Chose Adobe Substance 3D Collection
    I am not able to enter in the list the most close to substance we used like instamat and pixplant. We used them as cheaper alternatives to substance, they have limited tools and dont provide full control and accessibility for what we need. Blender is good for creating materials …
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    Adobe Substance 3D CollectionAutodesk Maya
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Substance 3D CollectionAutodesk Maya
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Big and mid-sized firms can really leverage the flexibility and value using the different tools all available at one place in the collection and also the integration with Adobe apps like photoshop, really makes it a seamless experience especially in fast paced production environments like advertising. For many film and game studios the whole collection might not be that much helpful as only painter will be of much use. For the small and indie studio it might be a costlier option and they can consider similar free or cheaper alternatives.
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    Autodesk
    Autodesk Maya is a great software, it has so many tools that you can create a full movie without even jumping to any other software. Although it's pretty hard to learn but there is nothing more fun, once you get a hang of it. In general, its tools are best for modeling and animation.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Great performance
    • Excellent Adobe support
    • Fast and easy
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    Autodesk
    • Easy to build workflow due to strong customizability.
    • Industry share. Easy to collaborate with other companies.
    • Strong cooperation with other software.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The substance painter is easy to use but its interface could be improved to be a bit more user friendly.
    • More assets can be added to stager, so visualize products better. Also AI workflow can be added for backplates.
    • Substance designer learning curve is very tough. Many people not able to grab it. It could be simplified.
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    Autodesk
    • Right now Maya has no good viewport like Blender 2.8 has. It is good that Maya 2019 devs focused on performance and stability but it's strange to see that mainstream soft aren't on trend in developing really cool and helpful tools.
    • Maya LT is very good for artist who don't need complex FX tools. So the devs must add python API to Maya LT.
    • Add more helpful tools to modeling section especially for retopology.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    The overall usability of substance stager and painter is quite easy. Many people will be able to use it without much prior experience. But designer is very complicated to learn and not many resources available for that. I think if they integrate the AI and provide better resources in the general interface, it could be a 10 on 10 in usability.
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    Autodesk
    As Autodesk Maya was one of the first softwares I learned, so I feel very fun to work with it. The overall usabilty feels very natural to me and I felt it's easy to learn but tough to master kind of software. Some people find it very difficult to learn, so I deduced some rating points.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    For texturing, Adobe Substance 3D is much better than the other options. In other fields, it's another story. I find it excellent for game engines and realistic renders, but it only solves textures. We, then, move to Blender because it has more compatibility with exports, and we can import them into our preferred render engine. We mostly use Unreal Engine, but also Blender3D to do the final rendering.
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    Autodesk
    We were evaluating the products within the Adobe portfolio like Adobe Animate, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects majorly among few others before finalising on the Autodesk Maya. One of the major reasons for that was earlier experience with the Autodesk Maya tool for the engineer and also it has more to offer than Adobe with multiple products.
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • We saved time when texturing models
    • With better looking assets, it's more money in the bank
    • Less time testing, more time doing
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    Autodesk
    • Effectively able to get the designs created and visualised
    • Video creation for concepts has become easy
    • ROI has been good, but if the costing is brought down then its even more amazing
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