Press Release - PD Pro Digital Painter 4.1 update, and upgrade price change announced

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Press Release - For Immediate Release


Title:

TheBest3D.com announces Project Dogwaffle Professional version 4.1
and Pricing changes for Upgrades from version 3 and earlier



Date: San Diego, CA, May 27, 2007



TheBest3D.com has released PD Pro 4.1, a free update patch for users
of PD Pro v4.0, the digital painting and animation program by Dan Ritchie.
A future price hike in the upgrades to v4 from versions 3 and earlier versions
was also announced.


*** What's new in 4.1

The main focus of this release is animation with video FX. There is a
plethora of new tools in the animation Timeline. There are also new filters
and enhancements to existing ones, adding animation to such things as the
Sky filter.

Major new features include:

* animated clouds in the Sky filter, plus fading in or out and changing shapes

* animated weaving brush images, such as tall grass in the gentle breeze

* animated lens flares: enhance your 3D CGI rendering of skies with realistic
lighting effects. Now with accurate out-of-focus reflections.

* animated swap buffer can make animated displacement maps or combine
with other animations in many ways. Use it to transform one video clip by
another, e.g. to add distortions like rising bubbles.

* a new woodcut filter turns your digital photos into works of art, as if
printed from a woodcut.

* the dark side of Mystic vision: Shadow Vision can simulate effects like
volumetric shadows cast under dark, animated clouds. It casts rays of
darkness from the dark regions of the image or animation frames.

* dark diffusion, the counterpart to light diffusion, is a photographic
effect filter. It spreads dark pixels into the neighboring brighter regions
of the image.


This release makes PD Pro a very powerful animation system for video,
post work on 3D CGI, special effects for games or traditional animation and
animated digital painting especially when used together with the many other
tools, brush techniques and filters.


*** Availability


For more details, examples, illustrations and animations, visit

http://www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/help/patches.html


The 4.1 update is available as a free download to legitimate users of PD
Pro 4 from here:

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/patches



*** Price Changes on Upgrades to PD Pro 4

TheBest3D.com also announced that the upgrade from v3 to v4 of PD Pro,
previously priced at the introductory $35, will be changing on Monday, June 21st,
at which point it will be increased to $49. The full version of PD Pro 4 remains
at $119 for single quantities.

Upgrade pricing for going from PD 2, PD Particles and PD Artist will also
slightly change and will be shown at www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/sales



*** Press Contacts

For Press inquiries, bundle offers, OEM inquiries and NFR copies to arrange
a review please contact Philip Staiger:

Web: www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/presszone
email: admin-AT-thebest3d-DOT-com
Skype: staigermanus
Phone: +1-858-208-7377


*** Copyright & Trademarks

Project Dogwaffle and Silver Squirrel are trademarks of Dan Ritchie, the author
of Project Dogwaffle. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners and only used for identification purposes.