For sure! Its kind of funny you say that though, my GF works in VFX as well and she (at the request of her vfx house) was going through the same process of checking out Substance Designer for that line of work. Since they use Nuke heavily and pretty much anything from the Foundry, Substance Designer looked appealing at…
Sure its distinct because your premise involved what they "became" or "could become" not what they used to be, which is not what was being discussed. For example, Zac3D said he wondered why there wasnt a photoshop alternative geared towards game artist. You have Substance designer which is a tool built from the ground up…