One MAJOR Question After the 2023 Procreate Dreams Event 

Honestly procreate dreams has me so excited, especially since I'm an animation student! I'm sure the app will do wonders for not only the animation community but the art community as a whole The one question I was left with after the announcement was the fact that in procreate we had the base animation tools but eventually it became its own app in procreate dreams, but procreate also has some 3d features to it even if it's just painting models, but could we maybe see the release of a 3d modelling and animation app for procreate another 5 or so years down the line? Procreate World's maybe even as a name haha

As an animation student I see this as an absolute win. Especially being a one time payment, I hope dreams get updates and love that it’s a one time payment. I’d definitely invest 100$ in procreate apps if they had a whole line up for like 3D modeling. Animation, Something like After effects or even something vector based. Especially with the quality they put in procreate which is actually cheap compared to professional desktop apps.

Based on what James and a couple of other people at Procreate said, these new features are indeed coming to the original procreate

Procreate Dreams is a no brainer buy. I just hope the older ipads like mine from 2020 isn't going to suffer much from feature losses. Like I hope the Animation gestures and tools aren't just limited to never iPads. but either or I'll buy the moment it comes out. I love the ipad and animation on it would be amazing

As a 2d hand drawn animator, you actually use full 24 fps very sparingly, mostly for fast movements, this is animating on ones (one drawing per frame). Most animation can be done animating on twos (1 drawing held for two frames), you could animate just setting the fps to 12 but the ability to switch from one to the other in the same animation is important. Some animators do animate at the full 24 fps, like Richard William used for The Thief and the Cobbler, but most frame by frame isn't done like that since its twice as much work. Who Framed Rodger Rabbit had to be at 24 fps to keep up with the moving camera, or else the characters wouldn't look like they're moving with the camera

You'll still have memory constraints. 1m x1m pixels addressable doesn't mean that there is data stored for every pixel in that matrix. Images will be contained in chunks and those chunks will have their place in the matrix. Too many chunks and you will run out of storage. Apple's Freeform app does more or less the same thing.

Just worried about storage, I will be enthusiast to animate on iPad with insane resolutions, because often my canvas are 6 o 7 thousand x 1080 projection for events. But then layered sequences become very fast huge stuff for storage, So the software will handle fast external drive?

my biggest question is which iPads would be able to run this updates & new app. I'd like to see a list of compatible devices.

Hey Tamer! Long time, my friend. Hope all is well. Just getting into Procreate so I'm pretty excited about Dreams. So much to learn. So little time! :)

The largest canvas on an iPad is not 16384 pixels. It's 268435456 pixels (16384 * 16384). Just saying.

Can’t wait for the release

But can you do a full length feature animation film 1 hour or 2 hour ?

This is exactly what I was thinking about!! I have an iPad Air 4, would I be able to use Dream? Would I get more ayers on Procreate?

Yeah, sounds like they are going to do a huge update with the M3 release. That's when I am upgrading my base M1 IPad Pro to a 1 or 2 TB M3 IPad Pro. It's going to be interesting to see how Procreate changes over this next year to a "next gen" app. It will also be interesting to see how layer limit works with Ram limitations in the current Procreate. Especially if we are getting those insane Canvas sizes.

And just One time $20 WOW!!

My big question is does this new Procreate engine mean _older iPad models_ will enjoy most of the upcoming feature improvements like those mentioned with the .dream extension, or is this going to mean buying an M2-chip iPad Pro 🤔

I was wondering the same thing. He said it so fast and by the way... I know I wasn't the only one at home screaming "Wait! Can we address that sentence right there!"

Do you think it will replace Adobe programs?

I'm so excited about both the new app and the possibility of huge canvases in Procreate OG, I'm mad I have to wait three more weeks!

I watched the dreams announcement video, I don’t remember hearing that they were updated the current app. ❤️🇦🇺

Based on core purpose I’m thinking New painting engine for performance The new file size (there might some restrictions depending on your hardware I’ve seen this occur with the 3D importer) Export as .dream (this in theory would save out the file and undo history so it can be used in dreams) For animation assist performing? Not fully sure Non destructive filters sounds like it could help in some cases

I like those specs. 🙂

another mind boggling thing is that with such an astronomical canvas size, procreate doesn't necessarily need to be vector now. A raster image that's 1M×1M pixels is simply vector.

This is soo cool! Procreate Dreams + Midjourney is going to be fire! What a huge win for Artists everywhere.

So what do I need the drawing app for? What can’t Dreams do?

Still no off canvas work space?

so waht was the question?

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First. 😮

For those who saw this and actually now believe that hand-drawn animation is 24 drawings per second, most animation is not actually 24 drawings per second. Usually it plays at 24fps on 2’s or 3’s, which means it’s more like 12 or 8 drawings per second. Still a lot of work, but as a hand-drawn animator I can tell this guy hasn’t done a lot of that himself

Dreams storage method is what I am wondering about The reason I chose LumaFusion over the iPad version of Final Cut Pro was because LumaFusion seamlessly supports an external SSD drive. Final Cut Pro for the iPad does not support an external SSD drive. With LumaFusion your entire project can reside on the external SSD drive - both your original media and the actual edited video. Unless you want to, nothing is stored on your iPad. With LumaFusion, everything works instantly with the external SSD drive. There are no delays, no waiting. It’s as if the external SSD drive was actually a part of the iPad itself. I use the Magic Keyboard so I power up my iPad by plugging the power cord into the Magic Keyboard - I have plenty of power that never runs out. And I plug my external Samsung 4TB SSD Drive into the usual iPad right side port. I sure hope that Dreams will support an external SSD drive in the exact same way that LumaFusion does. However, in all the promotional materials from Procreate Dreams - and all of the Dreams demos on RU-vid - I see no mention of this capability at all. If it was a feature you would think this would be something to brag about!

I have a question. Will we be able to voice our characters in the animations too? It would be so much fun!

I am always surprised at how functional procreate is on a base iPad. I really hope this works in some modified way on a base iPad. I teach digital art/animation at a middle school and our lab is base iPads, would love to bring this to my program.

Hi, do you know which iPads will work with Procreate Dreams, I have the 2020 2nd Gen iPad Pro. Thank you

As somebody who has no animation experience let alone being a beginner artist… I’m very excited.

i haven't seen any examples of it handling more that one shot in a project file. if it can't handle multiple shots it's very limited in one huge way

They will also bring icloud integration into procreate

I really appreciate your take on everything procreate. As I don’t see a commercial use for me personally, who uses procreate to design for physical products, your thoughts are interesting. I was super disappointed that enhancements to procreate weren’t announced but understandable. As a brush hoarder I really hoped for some organization tools there. I will buy the app if only to support them and it will be fun but am also afraid that instagram and all other social media will become crazy with animations mad with dreams. Thanks for all you do! Yours is one of the few emails I read entirely.

As a Motion Graphic Designer, this app is really exciting for me and something I have been waiting for! So happy an app like this is coming from the Procreate Team as well. Really looking forward to trying it out!

J'aimerais savoir si cette nouvelle application peut être compatible sur un ipad 9e génération...? ou seulement sur des iPad Pro?

I’m just waiting to hear what functions I’ll lose using an iPad Pro 2018.

Procreate itself came out 10 years ago. For 5 of those recently, we have been beta testing those features within Procreate and are being rolled back into Procreate Dreams. 3:54 i think the 1 million is virtual.

im so excited and have many projects i see being easier within dreams, i honestlyn cant wait for november

I too have a major question, if dreams is gonna perform all the tasks including painting then why would someone use procreate anyway now? 😕

Great overview. Very exciting indeed. Will it be able to export in formats widely used by the industry?

Haha!!! This is exactly what I was asking. I assumed he meant that .dream was the guarantee, not the new engine.

I’m thinking you’d need an iPad Pro. But my question is will all iPad Pros work? I have the second generation.

I want to know is it support on iPad 9th generation

If they do this I’m gonna be so mad I literally just switched to windows because of the layer limit.