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Digital Painting Tools for Creative Artists, Indie Game Developers  and Visual FX Animators, with powerful features for 3D and video.

PD Pro - Artist edition -
                                        just paint!PD Pro, Howler edition -
                                        paint and animate!

tutorials on our youtube channel Tweet woof howl waffle!
let's waffle
                                                      and howl! Digital
                                                      painting and
                                                      animation

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Where to order PD Howler, PD Artist or Tutorials?         
Click here to Order



We now also offer collections of tutorial videos:

New:
tutorial collection:
Working with Stabilized Video





Tutorial collection:
Cloudy, with a chance of Waffles





 
Tutorial collection:
Meteor Shower




   Landscape Rendering and Skies




The Best of Digital painting with PD Howler 2024:

PD Howler 2024 - Build 92







PD Howler 2024 - Build #89





Material Properties editing is coming - new in build #87



New in build #81:
Half-tone mode on custom brushes.


You can also use it to abuse it - here we used it as an elevation map to render a canyon with pilars:





Double-Loading

Learn more in the newsletter


Combining 3D and Digital Painting

Can your Image editing & Paint tool help you to create this in just minutes?

NASA Rover on Mars

(vehicle 3D model from NASA website download in Blender format, converted to OBJ, loaded and rendered in PD Howler then composited and post edited in PD Howler for added background scene also created in PD Howler)


Spooky Space Station - Interior





Spooky October is here - Halloween Specials!

65% off the regular price, for PD Howler 2024

Order here:  thebest3d.com/sales

Select PD Howler 2024 or PD Artist 2024
No discount code needed - This discount is automagic!

Expires shortly after Halloween Oct 31st


Need an even better deal? Also check the author's direct promos at https://pdhowler.com/Cart.htm


PD Artist 2024 build 77 is here!


Order PD Artist 2024 or PD Howler 2024
Learn about PD Howler 2024  Read the latest newsletter


Digital Art Live

Happy Labor Day - Builds 75 / 76 are here!

Save 50% off the regular price - limited time.





Build 70 is out and available now!


Build 69 of Howler 2024 - integrating PBR!
(Physics Based Rendering)





(Birds of a Feather will flock together)

Beyond Digital Painting: Brushes, Special FX, 3D, Landscapes, Video & Animation


PD Howler 2024 - Build 61 is now available!

Order PD Howler 2024:  here (through BMTmicro)
or
here from the Developer (Dan Ritchie) directly



Recently added/improved:  (straight from the Captain's Log)

  • Animated Gifs - We've got preliminary support for loading gif animations in Howler
  • Committed a 270 word spelling library to the API.  It's a start. Can you guess where that's going?
  • Added an API for working with GIF animations and additional support for wide strings.
  • The OBJ loader is now 64 bit - try the free standalone version
  • In the geometry renderer, you can now open a file in its default program(such as 3D Builder, 3D Viewer, 3D Paint,... whatever you've configured it to be on your PC)  or also with Notepad. This helps in quickly checking details and perhaps fixing possible issues in the materials or obj files.
  • Stored animations now show the frame number (!)
  • Analytical upscale now warns if its going to close an animation.
  • faster clipmaps and some general optimization
  • The mip-map seam problem is solved. (yay me!)
Read more about what's new > here
 
Status update June 9 - state of the new pipeline implenting PBR
(Physics Based Rendering)






PD Howler 2024 (v17) is now available > Order here.

Learn more about Howler 2024.

If you have an earlier version, use your discount code for even more savings at 50% off the regular price.
Contact us if you need your discount code to upgrade at reduced pricing






Beware of the Easter Bunny!

(it can hop over water :-)




PD Howler now supports 3D OBJ files

We call it the OBJoy format ;-)
 
Chris-Locke-Mech-with-NASA-OBJ-models

Mech by DzFire, other 3D Models from NASA downloads. Landscape and surrounding by PD Howler





dogwaffle-does-3D

 Learn more 

Newsletter #191 - Mid-January Joy

 
The itsy-bitsy Bugs list
(got a problem with color pickers causing a crash? Unlink them)

 PD Howler 2023 is now also on Steam

steampowered

Learn more here


 


Read details in newsletter #190



++++ Creative Times are Here! ++++



This was painted by Dan Ritchie with PD Howler.
The image features Silver Squirrel and Pillow Rabbit.  Silver added Pillow to his family as a service animal to help him with a disability.  The deer are Margaret Mayflower and Milton Meadows.  Margaret is an itinerant judge and member of the Court of Animals.  Milton agreed to assist her after she was injured at the Battle of the Flee Market in "Sky Full of Rabbits."  Together they are on their way to Deer City, a.k.a The Princedom of the Hill, which is also the name of the book.


Learn more about Silver Squirrel here >>> 
https://www.pdhowler.com/Silver.htm

Now also available as printed artwork in many forms here:

https://www.society6.com/danritchie


New! 
Learn more about the latest version:
PD Howler 2023
(powered by Dogwaffle 16)




New volumetric sky filter ^

Did you know?
Project Dogwaffle started as a paint program...
It also comes with great tools for animation, video and 3D landscapes.
Best of all - great brushes!

it
                                                          started as a
                                                          paint
                                                          program...


Did you know?

PD Howler 2022 may (still) be available here! and it's cheaper :-)

Want the best? Order here



Also Available:

PD Artist 2022 (v15)
Order here
not the latest, still one of the best deals



 

eagle and indian face by Frank Bonacquisti


December:

this is
                                                          your brain -
                                                          er - raven on
                                                          drugs - er on
                                                          dogwaffle

 
 

newsletters



  Paint your dreams and visions, fly through landscapes imagined. 


Newsletter #175



MANY MINI
                                                          HEARTS OF LOVE
                                                          FROM
                                                          DOGWAFFLE'S
                                                          CALLOUTS

What's new in PD Howler 2021:


The Martian Landscapes Chronicles:

2021/GlobalLum04s.jpg


Order here through our online store with BMTmicro :

https://www.thebest3d.com/sales

If you have a prior version, contact Phil for your discount code - save 50% no matter which version you had before. Includes sidegrades from PD Particles, PD Artist, Howler from Steam etc...






Please note: squirreldome.com is down (the hosting company went out of business)
 - please bookmark the new home for PD Howler, the developers new site -

www.pdhowler.com


new: Stored Images are now stored on disk, no longer wasting your precious RAM


Tutorial: How to open an image file new!


If kids can do it - so can you!..... Learn to code!
with the Dogwaffle API, create awesome Graphics!


What's new?



  Le guide d'utilisateur en français!

The User's Guide - now also in French!


Newsletter #169 - June Lake



Read earlier Newsletters


Create Beautiful Book Illustrations:

Dan Ritchie writes code for PD Howler, his digital painting software powered by Project Dogwaffle....,
then he also writes books. This is volume #5 in the Silver Squirrel series:


digital
                                                          painting with
                                                          Howler 2020

 
Learn More here

Learn even more here








 
about us

WOOF - the Slideshow
 

Main Features
 
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PuppyRay - rendering animated landscapes on GPU!

Free Demo
 
Tutorials

More Howler
 
Landscapes

ElevationMaps

CityScapes

Older Slideshows:

Slideshow 9.5
 
Slideshow 9.0
 
Slideshow 8.2
 
Slideshow 6
 
Slideshow 5




Project Dogwaffle:

PD Howler
I am the best of the best! woof!



other projects:


3-D PrintingHot!

Gamedev
Digital Painting
Animating & Video
Royalty-free Music
More 3D Tools

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