PD Howler Community Webinar

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PD Howler is a fast digital painting and animation program, created by artist, Dan Ritchie and is available at the The Best 3D.com. You can gain a free trial version of the painting software here

In this webinar you’ll learn a whole series of high value tips from Philip Staiger who is the co-creator of PD Howler and Tiffanie Gray who is an experienced landscape painter.

Phil will demonstrate 3D landscape creation and animation. Tiffanie Gray will show you how best to utilise PD Howler in creating a stunning landscape!

No previous experience is required of PD Howler for this session.

PD Howler includes GPU-accelerated 3D landscape generation tools, rendering with path tracing, video-on-video painting, motion tracking, image stabilization, rotoscoping, artist guides, photo editing, realistic media painting with dryout, translucency and pigment lifting, tools for post work and special effects filters, time stretching with motion estimated interpolation, particle brushes, foliage brushes, bristle brushes, orbicle brushes, user-defined custom animated brushes, video brushes, an exposure sheet for lip-synched cartooning, animated frame painting, loopable and seamless video creation tools, lens flares and many more amazing tools and gadgets.

Event Details

Part I – PD Howler – Creating a 3D Landscape with Animation by Philip Staiger

• Quick intro: What’s Project Dogwaffle’s PD Howler?
• Going lunar: create a sample heightmap for a landscape with an impact crater and then add erosion plus sediments.
• Colorize it based on height, slope, and of course your vision: paint it!
• Render it with extra bump maps, and water’s natural effects: reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, caustics and ground fog
• Animate it: move camera, the Sun and other elements
• Beyond the animation: make it slower with motion estimation
• Composite something else into it, perhaps an astronaut from Carrara, a monster from DAZ Studio or Poser, or a space vehicle?
• Additional post effects across the image sequences: lens flares and numerous FX filters.
• Some of the NEW Howler 2020 features will be shown.

Part II – PD Howler Painting by Tiffanie Gray

• Concept and Matte Painting – Why?
• Sketching your ideas – Paper or Pixels?
• “Watercolor” and “oil” painting in landscapes – What’s the difference?
• Choosing a palette – The Zen of Color.
• Altering a Brush shape to make a Media Brush or Ani-brush – I can create brushes, too?
• Using a png to make a Media Brush – Even more brushes!
• 3 ways to make clouds – I see a Cumulo-Simba Cloud (Lion)!
• Using paper textures to make mountains and rocks – Stone Origami.
• 3 ways to make trees and bushes – Happy little trees!
• 3 ways to make reflections in water – I got nothing clever.
• Ground cover/textures, grass and flowers – Shadows make all the difference.
• Putting it all together – Can I cheat? You bet!

Expected Webinar Duration : 1.5 hours

About Tiffanie Gray

Tiffanie Gray wears too many hats. She is an author, an editor, a publisher, an artist, a crafter, a web designer, a legal assistant, a slush reader, a volunteer, an actress, a seamstress, a clothing designer, a Master Instructor of Cosmetology, an Army veteran, a musician, a paper RPGer/GM, a life coach and a teacher. She is also a wife and a keeper for her husband, three cats and a Pomeranian who thinks he’s either a cat or a child.

Tiffanie is known as Dakorillon and Immortal Moments Arts to the art world on the web. She has been selling at Renderosity and HiveWire3D since 2016. She has been using PD Howler (known as Project Dogwaffle),  since version 1.1a in 2001. She originally started using PD Howler since it’s a natural fit for artists that have a traditional background – and so began learning it with glee! She now uses Howler for nearly everything to do with digital art and content creation. Since 3D artwork is becoming an indispensable tool in her box of tricks, she is happy that Howler still works so well with these new tools.

All of her art experience is self taught, she read books or took small workshops to learn traditional art. Howler, then Daz Studio, Poser, Hexagon and other art programs she added were by the the same method. She primarily focuses on fantasy and science fiction, but has added still lifes,  landscapes and portraits. She also uses her images for book cover designs and web design.

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