PD Howler is the top edition of Project Dogwaffle, which
is software created by an artist, and made for artists. Project
Dogwaffle runs on PCs and tablets with Microsoft Windows, and is made
for
digital painting AND animating. You'll find many predefined brushes, and
many more ways to customize or make your own, from simple brushes with
single image stamps to multi-frame animated brushes, particle brushes,
bristle brushes and exotic foliage brushes, to name a few.
You can
load a video clip or image sequence into the brush, and
paint it across the
frames of another video. PD Howler also supports various
tools for compositing multiple video clips, adding slow-motion with
motion estimation, and applying lots of filters and special effects to still images or animations.
There are also a number
of great 3D capabilities, such as to create realistic
landscape, mountains and valleys, which you might use as a basis to
paint over them as well. It's a great tool to discover your inner
artist. It's useful for content creation in games, videos, illustrations
and other types of graphic works, or just to dibble dabble away and
spend some time with colors and pixels, to marvel at the beautiful side
of technology. It's come a long way. Dogwaffle uses the GPU, GDI+, SSE2,
multi-threading...
But let's not forget: In the end, it's just a tool. How
you use it, that's what ultimately turns it into an artist's
tool. |