Tutorials

Tutorials for Project Dogwaffle, PD Particles & PD Pro and Howler

• How to Save your animation as Media file (mp4) and how to prepare the next animation to continue where the prior one ended. (with PuppyRay) New!

• 10 things you didn't know about Dogwaffle 

• Trees and brushes and mountains (oh my) 

• How to save Swap and Main images (and alpha selection mask too)  in a single file (part of: landscapes)

• Various tips and tricks with Puppy Ray rendering 
  

• Landscapes 
  

• 3D-Designer 
  

   More Tutorial  Collections:

• Taming the Broomhead - PD Pro 8 tutorials New! Includes many new videos on our Youtube channel!

• The Daily Dose: a series with PD Pro 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and beyond! Includes many videos on our Youtube channels!
  

• Discovering Project Dogwaffle - tutorial collection #1
  

• The Art of Project Dogwaffle - projects collection #2  free web edition!

• PD Pro 5 tutorials   awesome v5.1b

• PD Pro 4 tutorials   many(!) tutorials here! - great place to start even if you have a more recent version 5 and up!
  

• PD Particles tutorials
  

• PD Artist tutorials
  
  
• PD Howler tutorials

• PD 1.2 (free version) tutorials
  

• Using the alpha channel for selections, masks, special effects and more. This is a series of tutorial focused on the many Alpha related tools.
  

• use this free plugin to take a collection if images layed out as a spritesheet and convert them into an animation for viewing or exporting as image sequence or AVI file.
  

• Drawing Horizontal or Vertical straight lines with the Drawing Grid (snap) mode and linear tool
  

• Draw a short animation, then save it as image sequence and use VirtualDub to convert it to Animated Gif or AVI and more formats. This tutorial uses the freeware version 1.2 of Dogwaffle!

• more ideas, tricks and tools to paint space art like star clusters and nebulae, even cosmic gravitational lenses
  

• Creating Poser walk sequences? Convert AVI and Save to animated Gif using the free DoggyFX plugin. Also supports importing animated gif and saving to MNG

• A few tips and tricks to grab an image from your
  web browser straight into Dogwaffle without saving to file. Plus some stuff you can do to it.

• Working with images and other applications
  through the Clipboard (for PD Artist and others)
  

• don't get your tubes hosed up! here's a look at creating and using animated brushes made of image sequences.
  

• Exploring and discovering new brushes from Pixarra's Twistedbrush Pro Studio and ways to use them in Project Dogwaffle Professional. Play with clay style brushes, Kaleiscopes and much more, then turn them into animations! Also learn about sharing Lua scripts!
  

• make a set of images from particle brushes, assemble into a spritesheet. Turn it into a custom brush, use it for nature painting.
  

• take an image and add animated snowfall and other effects to turn it into a screensaver with the help of Irfanview. Also use Alpha channel masks to control where the snow apears, and give illusion of depth
  

• Going beyond the initial use of painting foliage, grass, shrubbery and bushes: making other effects with the Optipustics particle brushes
  

• Exploring more fun effects with Color Sobel Edge Detect filter, starting from a grid.
  

• combining particle brushes and the Color Sobel Edge Detect filter and other filters for intriguing effects
  

• The circular gradient used to quickly make some fancy colored backgrounds
  

• some ideas to draw lines which change colors according to the color gradient
  

• Another look at making seamless textures, and adding lens flares with PD Pro 4.1

• Using Custom Backgrounds: personalize your Dogwaffle experience

• create animated textures with bluescreen compositing, then map and render it in a 3D program (e.g. Carrara)
  

• PD Pro 4: start with a simple photo, turn it into a brush, paint some wacky stuff and add some magic with filters. Explore new techniques for use in Planetary textures
  

• PD Pro 3: how to paint realistic 3D shapes with shading and shadows.

• Compositing image sequences with Blue screen technique
  

• using PD Pro to render an animation over another, when the 'foreground' anim is an image sequence with alpha channel for opacity
  

• also usable with PD Pro and Project Dogwaffle 2 in many cases!

• Dan's awesome Video tutorials, and lots of them  <<< awesome!

• Our many FREE  Tutorials                  <<< new!

• more video tutorials with PD Pro 3.5

• Short tutorials - short and sweet

• other tutorials by various wafflers and artists

• ye good ole days - getting started: original Tutorials from Dogwaffle 1.11b/1.5