Adobe has stopped development and discontinued support for Fuse on September 13, 2020. Fuse 1.0 was officially launched in March 2014. A beta version of Fuse was originally launched on Steam in November 2013. All texturing within Fuse is driven by Allegorithmic's Substance Designer.
Mixamo also partnered with Allegorithmic in the creation of Fuse. Chaudhuri's work resulted in a SIGGRAPH publication in 2011. The technology underneath Fuse was initially developed as a character creator at Stanford University from the work of Siddhartha Chaudhuri in Prof. Fuse was part of Mixamo's product suite, and it is aimed at video game developers, video game modders, and 3D enthusiasts. Its main novelty is the ability to import and integrate user-generated content into the character creator. Adobe Fuse CC (formerly Fuse Character Creator) is a discontinued 3D computer graphics software developed by Mixamo that enables users to create 3D characters.