RC33 - Easter Sale
Hello again,
here is another update from the "Dogwaffler of the
Moment", our sporadic newsletter about digital
painting and animation as well as visual effects and exploring 3D creativity with
Project Dogwaffle. If you want to catch up on recent or prior issues of our newsletters and announcements, start here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/newsletter
This specific newsletter issue is here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/newsletter/119-RC33
Latest release: RC33
We've had another update. The latest release is RC33.
- fixed a bug in the zoom tool that kept it from working with tablets
- Roto tools Gaussian blur can now go up to 100
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Merge with swap/ mix buffers is now named "mix with swap"
If you ordered from our BMTmicro store, you may still be able to re-download your v10 installer, if it hasn't expired yet.
Let us know if your allowed downloads have been exhausted or have expired. We can re-enable your download to get this latest build if you qualify for the free update.
Dogwaffler of the Moment: Joan Scarbrough
About Joan
Joan has spent a great deal of time in the outdoors until developing Multiple Sclerosis and was no longer able to visit wild places.
Painting is her way of doing so again.
She started doodling on the computer with different art apps when she found Project Dogwaffle and the freeware version of PD Artist.
Her Paintings celebrate her love of the natural world. Fundamental to her painting is the desire to create a work of art that evokes a sense of peacefulness and serenity, drawing the audience into the images she creates.
See http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/JoanScarbrough to find Joan's DOTM page for more details and samples of her art.
Easter Celebration Sale - 27% off regular prices!
Whether you like to draw a bunny, or paint and animate some colorful eggs, we want to help you do this with PD Howler or PD Artist.
Easter is March 27, so... From now through the end of the month, we're offering an automatic discount of 27% off the regular price for PD Howler 10 and PD Artist 10:
PD Artist 10: regular $27, discounted price = $19.71
PD Howler 10: regular $74, discounted price = $54.02
We also apply the same discount to PD Particles 9, PD Artist 9.6 and PD Howler 9.6, which are all lower priced, and perhaps fit even better into your budget. You can always upgrade to v10 or the latest later on.
To compare the actual current prices for your preferred product, start here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/sales
Tutorials & Videos
Here are new videos and tutorials from our YouTube channel:
The Curve tool revisited, with Project Dogwaffle v10
https://youtu.be/isyD3mz0GjkThere have been many changes and improvements over the years with this particular tool, the Curve tool. Especially when version 7.1 was released, where the Curve tool received a major face lift. But even since then, more and more subtle changes and new features have been added. The latest as of this date, with Version 10 and RC33, is that you can store the current curve, in ways similar to storing other assets, such as storing and managing the current image, alpha channel, custom brush and animation. This tutorial re-introduces some of the key features, mostly focusing on the parts that work in both PD Howler and also PD Artist, i.e. without much on the animation side of things. The Curve tool in PD Howler does indeed have many more uses, for animated curves across key frames to track a moving target and blur it or do other things related to matte tracking and roto-scoping, to name a few.
We do have though the ability to create animated brushes even in PD Artist.
As of version 9, PD Particles also has this Curve tool. Some of what you see here can also be done with PD Particles' Curve tool.
How to make caves in PD Howler
https://youtu.be/qKAW9JNk4X0Using the vertical mirror feature, we can have the upper half mirrored down to the bottom half side. With that in mind, we can create renderings of landscapes with spikes, and then flip it upside down and mirror it. The result looks like some fancy cave with stalagmites and stalagtites. Well, sort of. Close enough for many uses. This can be done in PD Artist too. With PD Howler, you can animate it, fly through it, and turn it around.
Landscape with River
https://youtu.be/TE9tgdj74WsThat's it, for now. Thanks for waffling and howling!
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