TheBest3D.com has announced the release of PD Pro 4, the newest major edition of Project Dogwaffle Professional, a PC paint and animation software developed by Hollywood special fx artist, animator and novelist Dan Ritchie.
PD Pro version 4 is the successor to the acclaimed and award-winning PD Pro Digital Painter 3.x, also known as Project Dogwaffle Professional. Using PD Pro, it is possible to paint with animations over animations, such as digital video, as well as with natural media and particle brushes.
“We developed PD Pro to enable artists to express free-thinking creativity in a different way,”, said Ritchie, “inspired by old-school traditional painting
and animation techniques. This newest release adds a great deal of further speed improvements through code optimizations, extensive use of system cache and a new framework to support new and future hardware configurations through multi-threading.”
PD Pro is designed from the ground up to be a realtime painting experience. Technologies like streaming SIMD instructions and aggressive processor cache usage make PD Pro a real screamer.
PD Pro 4 introduces a new multithreading architecture for a 10-25% speedup or even more on the current generation of dual core processors, and much greater speeds as new multithreaded tools and plugins become available.
What’s new in v4
Top Improvements found in PD Pro 4.0:
- New user-centric interface makes more of PD Pro’s power easier to use, especially for first-time users, more easily accessible.
- More speed and flexibility. PD Pro is optimized with the latest state-of-the art optimizing techniques for realtime feel and operation on single core systems, and using multiple threads for a significant boost on multi-core systems. (HT, Dual Core, X2,…)
- New pigment profiles are much simpler, more flexible, and powerful than traditional color swatches, palette mixers, or other schemes used in the past to represent the color of pigments in traditional painting medias. Pixel profiles are fully integrated, along with newly integrated color tools like the Color Harmony tool.
- New favorites list lets you organize and keep your favorite tools in an easy-to-use thumbnail browser.
- Better integration of existing tools, plus dozens of optimizations, tweaks, fixes and improvements requested by users and beta testers
“We’ve created several new productivity-enhancing tools”, added Ritchie, “such as opening a picture from file directly into the ‘stored’ state, for subsequent easy re-use. This can be a great time-saver, for instance when a dozen of images needs to be sequenced into a rotating banner or a quick animation.”
A detailed list of changes and new features can be found at https://thebest3d.com/pdpro/whatsnew
Availability & Pricing
Introductory pricing for PD Pro 4.0 Upgrades start at $29, with the full version priced at $104 instead of $119.
More sidegrades and pricing details can be found at https://www.thebest3d.com/pdpro
PD Pro is available as a download of about 19 MB
About Dan Ritchie and Squirreldome.com
PD Pro is the culmination of Project Dogwaffle technology, which is the result of 9+ years of development by Dan Ritchie, a Hollywood special fx artist who is also the author of a novel, “Silver Squirrel”.
Concurrently with the release of PD Pro 4, Ritchie also has announced the availability of his newest novel #2, “Silver Squirrel in Uneasy Pieces”. Ritchie’s novels can be found at https://www.thebest3d.com/silversquirrel and at his publisher, Authorhouse.com.
Ritchie can be contacted at https://www.squirreldome.com
About Philip Staiger and TheBest3D.com
Philip Staiger is the owner of TheBest3D.com where he consults with artists on affordable tools for artistic creativity.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on October 16, 2006
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