Press Release - For Immediate Release


Title:

     TheBest3D.com announces Project Dogwaffle Professional version 4.1 
     and Pricing changes for Upgrades from version 3 and earlier



Date:     San Diego, CA, May 27, 2007



     TheBest3D.com has released PD Pro 4.1, a free update patch for users 
 of PD Pro v4.0, the digital  painting and animation program by Dan Ritchie. 
 A future price hike in the upgrades to v4 from versions 3  and earlier versions 
 was also announced.


 *** What's new in 4.1

     The main focus of this release is animation with video FX. There is a 
 plethora of new tools in the animation Timeline. There are also new filters 
 and enhancements to existing ones, adding animation to such things as the 
 Sky filter.

     Major new features include:

    * animated clouds in the Sky filter, plus fading in or out and changing shapes

    * animated weaving brush images, such as tall grass in the gentle breeze

    * animated lens flares: enhance your 3D CGI rendering of skies with realistic 
       lighting effects. Now with accurate out-of-focus reflections.

    * animated swap buffer can make animated displacement maps or combine 
       with other animations in many ways. Use it to transform one video clip by 
       another, e.g. to add distortions like rising bubbles.

    * a new woodcut filter turns your digital photos into works of art, as if 
       printed from a woodcut.

    * the dark side of Mystic vision: Shadow Vision can simulate effects like 
       volumetric shadows cast under dark, animated clouds. It casts rays of 
       darkness from the dark regions of the image or animation frames.

    * dark diffusion, the counterpart to light diffusion, is a photographic 
       effect filter. It spreads dark pixels into the neighboring brighter regions 
       of the image.

    * Particle brushes: Age-decrementing for more realistic branches to twigs,
      thinning roots, funky hair and fur, etc... by reducing their lifespan 
      and sizes while you paint


 

     This release makes PD Pro a very powerful animation system for video, 
 post work on 3D CGI, special effects for games or traditional animation and 
 animated digital painting especially when used together with the many other 
 tools, brush techniques and filters.


 *** Availability


 For more details, examples, illustrations and animations, visit

    http://www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/help/patches.html


 The 4.1 update is available as a free download to legitimate users of PD 
 Pro 4 from here:
 
       http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/patches



 *** Price Changes on Upgrades to PD Pro 4

 TheBest3D.com also announced that the upgrade from v3 to v4 of PD Pro, 
 previously priced at the introductory $35, will be changing on Monday, June 25, 
 at which point it will be increased to $49.  The full version of PD Pro 4 remains 
 at $119 for single quantities.

 Upgrade pricing for going from PD 2, PD Particles and PD Artist will also 
 slightly change and will be shown at www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/sales
 


 *** Press Contacts

 For Press inquiries, bundle offers, OEM inquiries and NFR copies to arrange 
 a review please contact Philip Staiger:

 Web: www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/presszone
 email: admin-AT-thebest3d-DOT-com
 Skype: staigermanus
 Phone: +1-858-208-7377


 *** Copyright & Trademarks

 Project Dogwaffle and Silver Squirrel are trademarks of Dan Ritchie, the author 
 of Project Dogwaffle. All other trademarks are the property of their respective 
 owners and only used for identification purposes.