Wilderness Scenes: Advanced Painting Techniques

Premium Registration includes the HD Recording

SATURDAY 7TH APRIL

PD Howler is a fast digital painting and animation program, created by artist, Dan Ritchie and is available at the DAZ Store. You can gain a free trial version of the painting software here. It’s an affordable and powerful alternative to Photoshop.

In this webinar Tiffanie Gray will show you how to use PD Howler for effective and powerful postwork actions showing 20 essential methods.

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 : (Saturday 7th of April at 20:00 BST/15:00 EDT New York/12:00 PDT Los Angeles)

• Preparing a Concept or Mood Board; the best foundation for your project.
• Choosing the orientation of the image and how it affects the end product.
• The top techniques that I use in almost every project.
• Expert advise with brushes; select the best brushes for each job.
• Six composition techniques explained that will make you landscape “pop”

– Rule of thirds and the golden triangle
– Leading with lines
– Framing and cropping
– Symmetry and asymmetry
– Points of interest

• Considering the background layer in detail

– Day or night
– Seasons
– Clouds
– Stars
– When to include water to not

• Upper Horizon Layer

– Mountains
– Tree-lines
– Ruins and more

• Mid Horizon Layer

– Water reflections
– Hills
– Trees

• Low Horizon Layer

– Trees
– Bushes
– Hills
– Focal points

• Foreground Layer

– Flowers
– Grasses
– Rocks
– Branches

• Fine tuning the image : Balancing the weight of elements

Bonus Video

You’ll get a bonus tuition video on fine tuning Puppy Ray for fascinating base images.

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.