Press Release#4
For Immediate Release
Dan Ritchie announces release 2.0 of Project Dogwaffle
Santa Clarita, CA – January 15, 2004 – Dan Ritchie,
developer and publisher of the award winning paint software Project
Dogwaffle, announced today the immediate availability of the newest
version 2 of his paint and animation software.
"The time has finally arrived for the next generation of (un)natural
painting on the PC.", said Ritchie. "Version 2 is a major upgrade for
my
popular paint and animation software. It's been in the making for over
6 months, since version 1.6 was completed in July last year."
Here are just a few of the new features:
- Multiple layers.
- Dynamic panning and zooming.
- The new media manager
- The new Paintsmear mode
- Custom brushes can now react to brush dynamics to control
rotation, scale, and color.
- Powerful brush manager
- BrushFX to can generate stars and all sorts of natural phenomenon.
- One click Patterns.
- Crop, rotate and scale an animation.
- Apply a vast number of effects to an animation.
- Animation playback speed and accuracy has been improved.
- Loading and saving of AVI files.
- Improved text tool
- A new image browser lets you see thumbnails of your images before
you load them.
- Drag & Drop of files.
- Tablet support is improved.
Plus many other improvements and features. Over a hundred have been
identified. For more details read http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/whatsnew/2
or http://www.squirreldome.com
Pricing
The full version of Dogwaffle 2 is available for $67 USD.
Upgrades are available from v1.6, v1.5 and v1.15, starting at $19.
"While we have made our tools very professional, we wanted to also keep
it very affordable for hobbyists and people who love
to paint to try this program. To our loyal customers of prior versions
we want to show out appreciation by making the upgrades very
attractive. For those new clients who are not certain if they want to
go with the full new v2 quite yet, we are keeping version 1.6 available
at the original $45 level. We think this will be a great incentive to
give it a try. "
"There are a lot of people out there who enjoy sketching and painting
in their spare time but can't justify the cost of the established and
expensive professional tools. In our "Dogwaffler of the Moment"
gallery,
people from all walks of life and all ages are showing the many faces
of popular art. It is gratifying to know that Dogwaffle has helped them
todiscover and explore an artistic side they all have. But Dogwaffle is
also useful in professional 3D work, where I use it myself daily to
paint over dinosaur skins in uv maps, to make backdrops and other
imagery, animated textures, and to add lens flares, explosion, foliage
effects etc...", said Ritchie.
"If your work or hobby involves a pixel, then Project Dogwaffle should
be one of the tools you use."
About Dan Ritchie
As a professional 3D animator, Dan Ritchie has always had a need to
produce textures, create uv maps, and process sequences of
frames. 2D painting is a rewarding hobby which he loves to do and
explore with Dogwaffle. As if being a 2D artist and 3D animator isn't
enough, in addition to enjoying heavily optimized code programing, Dan
is also a writer. He recently finished and published his novel, Silver
Squirrel. For more details about Dan's work, visit www.squirreldome.com
About TheBest3D.com
TheBest3D.com is owned and operated by Philip Staiger of San
Diego. TheBest3D.com is also acting as a reseller and co-marketing
agent for Dan Ritchie’s Project Dogwaffle.
Media Contacts
Dan Ritchie: email: dan_ritchie@hotmail.com
web: www.squirreldome.com
Philip Staiger: email: dogwaffle@thebest3d.com
web: www.thebest3d.com
© Copyright Dan Ritchie 2004. Project Dogwaffle and Silver Squirrel
are trademarks of Dan Ritchie. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.