PD Howler 2020 [for PC]

PD Howler is a digital painting program (software for Windows PC) with many added features for creative minds, to make animations, working on video clips, do 3D renderings on GPU of landscapes, and visual special effects. It started as a paint program and includes a ton of brushes of many types, including foliage particle brushes, custom-image based and animated brushes, even brushes that respond to sound…. In a way, it is a mix of several tools. It’s not prefect in all ways, it is only 20+ years young. We, the developers, are pushing 3x that. It is a product of passion, made by an artist, for you other artists.

Summary of Main Features:

Digital painting with many types of brushes, including natural media brushes, particle brushes, foliage brushes, custom image and animated brushes + Huge collection of filters, many of them animated(!)

Video frame editing and post work for special FX, traditional frame-by-frame animation and working with video on video, motion prediction, frame processing, tracking, chromakeying, green screen, compositing, rotoscoping, etc…

3D capabilities including elevation map based 3D terrain generation, global illumination and ray tracing on CPU and in the GPU! See an animation of a sunrise here for example: https://youtu.be/ElLYVfsac6U – and watch over a thousand free tutorials at youtube.com/pdhowler – look for the 40+ playlists in various categories