The brain behind the PD Pro Digital Painter and Project Dogwaffle Paint & Animation software, Dan Ritchie, will be in attendence at this year’s Birds of a Feather. The meeting, hosted by TheBest3D.com, will take place during SIGGRAPH at the LA convention center, on Thursday, August 4th, at 2pm. Please click “More” to read the event’s full press release.

For Immediate Release:

San Diego, California, July 25, 2005 – Dan Ritchie, author of PD Pro Digital Painter and Project Dogwaffle Paint & Animation software, has announced that he plans to attend the Birds of a Feather meeting hosted by TheBest3D.com, during SIGGRAPH at the LA convention center, on Thursday, August 4th, at 2pm.

“Since last month’s 3.2 release, we’ve been busy working on a retail version for our UK publisher, and have added new features and speed optimizations, which will probably also be part of the next free update patch for 3.x users.”, said Ritchie. “I look forward to meeting our artists and heroes who make daily use of Dogwaffle for their creative needs.”

Amongst the things that will be mentioned:
– Speed optimizations, realtiming of filters
– Tutorials on planetary surfaces with new displacement by Swap buffer
– New plugins from 3rd party developers for making custom brushes (CopyShape)
– Editing images from flight and train simulation games with the free plugins
– Newest Dogwafflers of the moment
– The oldest Dogwaffler known: a 93-year old Hemet, CA resident – who’s the youngest?

There will also be raffles of software and possibly hardware.

For more information, visit http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle.

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About Dan Ritchie and PD Pro Digital Painter:
Dan Ritchie lives in Southern California and is the author of a novel, Silver Squirrel. He is also a 3D animator and special FX artist. PD Pro and Project Dogwaffle are the results of eight years of software development and code optimizations. It has grown into a very fast tool for painting on stills and animations, for post-production, and much more.

For more details visit http://www.squirreldome.com.

About TheBest3D.com:
Based in San Diego, California, TheBest3D.com is partnered with Dan Ritchie to market Project Dogwaffle and PD Pro Digital Painter. It is the website host for many resources, including patches, galleries, brushes and reviews, as well as the freeware version, Project Dogwaffle 1.2.

© Copyright Dan Ritchie 1997-2005. Project Dogwaffle, PD Pro Digital Painter and Silver Squirrel are trademarks of Dan Ritchie. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners and only used for identification purposes.