DogWaffle for paint and animation work - Products

Post, Sept, 2003

SANTA CLARITA -- Squirrel Dome (www.squirreldome.com) has released V.1.6 of its Windows-based paint and animation program DogWaffle. V.1.6 features a fully overhauled display system for greater speed, quality and flexibility. Many painting and alpha channel tools have been sped up and improved in the new release.

New animated brushes allow the user to paint with a sequence of images and are created on the fly as opposed to being a canned effect. They can be scaled, rotated, flipped and keyed, and can make use of brush dynamics like regular custom brushes. Its onionskin function lets users see though paper like traditional onionskin used in animation studios. Users can see through the two prior and two following frames as they paint the current frame to create original cel animations. Artists can use animated brushes as an animation tool as well as a painting tool. Buffer tools such as flip, invert, grayscale and dynamic range can now be applied to animations.

The new artist guide feature aids in copying source photographs and artwork. A new shading option in the particle system makes trees and shrubs more realistic. Improved grass/brush/hair effects now uses opacity changes in gradient and there's a shading effect.