COMPANY: The Best 3D | URL: (See Buy button below) | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Windows | PRICE: $159
A new, major release (PD Pro version 7) is coming soon! Order PD Pro 6 at full price and get a free upgrade to PD Pro 7 when it is released (early 2012). Plus, those who already have PD Pro 6 can pre-order the upgrade and save an additional 20% over the discounted upgrade price! See Buy button below.
PD ("Project Dogwaffle") Howler is a fast digital painting and animation program for Windows. The developer, Dan Ritchie, has been known throughout the 3D community for making plug-ins for 3D tools, working as a 3D animator at Foundation Imaging and other production studios on projects like Star Trek Voyager, Starship Troopers, and other exciting sci-fi productions involving 3D animations and special effects.

With PD Howler, you can paint with animations over animations, such as video. PD Pro was developed to enable artists to express free-thinking creativity in a different way, inspired by old-school traditional painting and animation techniques. It is loaded with numerous features used in VFX and film industry for post work, matte painting and traditional animation.

The need for speed

In this version of Project Dogwaffle, there are a number of improvements including changes that radically improve memory throughput in a number of cases. Floating point operations now use SSE2 registers. Add to that optimizations for better cache usage whenever possible, plus some new algorithms for a number of functions, and the results are filters that are often fast enough to operate in real-time, not just over a small preview version of your image, but on the whole image.

Key elements that have been added or improved

•GUI Improvements: more modern visually compatible with Windows 7
•Lighting Tool: images are interpreted as elevation maps and come to life in 3D
•Improved Bristle Brushes
•New Symmetry, Mirror and & Kaleidoscope modes
•Color FX
•Improved Stroke Player (re-use your saved brush strokes)
•New Layer Modes
•Load video and Spritesheets directly to animated brushes
•Convert all frames from the undo buffer to an animation
•New media player and updated sound recorder
•For developers, API changes with additions for 3D
•Color gradients: improved sweep editor
•Real-time blur tools
•Mandelbrot fractals

PD Howler is available for online purchase (see Buy button above). Owners of earlier versions of Project Dogwaffle, such as PD Pro, PD Artist and PD Particles are offered additional discounts for upgrading to PD Howler. A save-disabled demo version is available for free download.
OTHER AVAILABLE PRODUCTS:

PD Artist 2
PD Particles
Tutorial Suite #1