MASKING Tutorial In-Depth Tools & Strategies in Procreate & Procreate Dreams 

Heeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! I'm honored to have lured your footsteps! Hope we get to meet again in person in the future! Pro Dreams is wonderful isn't it!

Thank you for your feedback, sir. I made three very short videos, and in them I cover the masking from a practical and straight to the point approach that should help on demystifying it, I hope. I'll paste the link for them in the description for you; let me know if they help.

You are absolutely right. But all the content I covered as you can see offers strategies that would save the day on certain projects while may not be necessary on other projects so it’s a matter of giving the full experience in one video I plan on making a short video that goes straight to the pointfor people who are only looking to know how masking gets applied. I’m glad you found it helpful.

Absolutely! 100% agreed. The stability features, is that in the Procreate? I didn't see such things in Dreams. I'm still adjusting myself, but pushing myself to use it daily has been helpful. I'm glad you liked the video. Uploading a new one just now :)

Thank you! Happy to help further if needed. And if you have a specific case, give me more info and I could hopefully make a demo just on the case you're looking for.

My pleasure!

You're incredibly kind! Thank you so much!

I’m thinking today ill try using procreate for my animation drawings then move them over to Dreams for color and compositing and effects

Thats is PRECISELY how it goes.

@@ihabiano I’m starting to understand that you have to plan out grouping in advance to make your life easier.

@@Mahaffeytattoo-ux2ro Absolutely! A minute of planning ahead could save you dozens later.

Hopefully Dreams gets the drawing tools from Procreate such as, the straight line by holding the pencil down and shapes, also liquify and the selection tool. That would be great.

@@Mahaffeytattoo-ux2ro Couldn't agree more. But for a mobile app that works even on modest iPads, at a pricetag below$22, I'm afraid we might be asking for too much loll

Totally makes sense. I'll consider either including it on the next tutorial, or if more appropriate I'll make a short video just for it.

In the new video I'm about to upload (will take about an hour or so from now) I covered the distortion effect :)

Good question. Masks function upon brightness of pixels. Therefore it is ideal to use white. Which is why in photoshop or other applications, they only allow viewing the masks in Black and white (or greyscale), and it's nice that Pro Dreams allows any color. Simply put, to be safe, go with white :) Second question: That's where we use grouping. I'll add it to my list of follow up demonstration and make a quick video on that to demonstrate!

@@ihabiano Understood. Thanks

Thank you, very helpful

I think the final process is fairly easy, but as I stated in the title, it is an in-depth tutorial, and as you might have seen in the video, I covered best case scenarios, and worst case scenarios in terms of making the masks. If you’re very familiar with the masking process, you would only need to know how it’s done but if you’re new to it this video aims to cover both the concept and the application from A-Z.

I mostly agree and very early on felt that way and was thinking ugh what to people expect? procreate 2 with animation? That would make Procreate effectively a lesser app and would be a bad business decision and time investment strategy. That said, there are some essentials missing like laso, warp, layer placements, lassoing to copy elements from one frame to another that are more essentials for effective animation that art. The way I like to see it is, Dreams can be art lite as long as it it animation strong. Using it for more than quick animations quickly leads to annoyance because you either have to redraw every single Fram for very minor changes which is very very long, or duplicating the frame and editing it, which works sometimes but can lead to some wonkiness because you're copying the whole image so needing to edit via reading and redrawing. You could also just have say a character copy it for every body part than erase the character except for each body part so you have a layer for each and can move them independently. It works ok but is still much more work than lasooing an element then warping and editing it into its new position

Both of you guys make excellent points!!! Bottom line, for me, is that they're both under $50 to get, as a single time purchase. When Adobe wants their users blood, per month.. figuratively speaking... therefore, that's a steal. Also we tend to forget, that is a mobile app... pretty impressive still.

@@ihabiano I forgot an important point to my comment ahaha: FREAKING LOVE THIS APP ITS REVOLUTIONARY Im obsessed, barely sleeping since I got it just getting into 2d animation for the first time since my youth. So all this is more general feedback on what it can become a full professional tool and frankly what will reverse the very unwarranted downvoting it's getting in the app store. It's all about lasso! And though I mentioned it too I would NEVER make it a cause to tair them down. Even if they never implement it because of exactly what you said: this company is singlehandedly competing with Adobe who, in my view are a money greedy company with the worst cancellation process I've ever seen. They build their whole structure on trying you in for life and then making it hard to leave because of that cancellation policy and because up until now there really wasn't anything else. When Procreate stepped in and got artists doing what they love for a 1 time cost that is just so affordable, I was win over immediately. And I'm blindly putting my faith into any product they put out next, I including Dreams because frankly those Goliaths need an opposition. It is ridiculous that we've all been tethered to all these subscriptions for services that a only a decade ago were a one time cost. There's a time I would have believed the whole "yeah but these apps are so much more advanced and need ongoing support" but then I see Nomad Sculpt creating an amazing iOS based 3d sculpting app for a 1 time fee run by one person and I think that is such a load of crap. Just in the last decade alone we've paid more than what a reasonable cost for a platform would be, and the cost is ongoing, meaning at one point in time, were just blindly giving money to use a tool way past it's actual cost to build and maintain, it's just Insane to me and bound to backfire one day. Rant done ahaha