Procreate Dreams Frame by Frame Animation and Masks 

i just found out! Thanks for your reply Adam!

@@StayfDraws Thank you

I tried and it doesn’t work lol

@@bibulesplit your screen so you have Procreate in one side and Dreams on the other. In Procreate tap and hold a brush or brush pack for a second and drag it over into Dreams and drop it anywhere on the screen. It should import correctly

@@bibule ru-vid.com7nDExPqYEbk?si=yIOCS90KMwfpVhh-

Thanks John!

You can transfer your brushes to dreams from procreate, it’s not that hard. Yes it was made to be used with procreate as to not over complicate the latter, it’s not that hard to understand

Thanks for your reply!

You are very welcome

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad to hear that!

Don’t be afraid, just start animating, make a lot of mistakes and learn and enjoy the art of animation.

“Too much respect for it” just means lazy to learn and scared to try..

@@Angel-Otk nope, definitely not too lazy, since I have done a few animations in Photoshop already, but definitely scared to try.

@@StayfDraws Yup, I made a dance animation in Dreams, but I noticed that you can't really adjust the length of a frame, if you have an adjacent frame next to it? Maybe I just missed an option.

I explain it in my new video.

I found that out a week ago! Pretty amazing!

You can not swap layers, but you can turn them on and off. I have made a video about doing lip sync in Dreams. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqnh0LoHCYg.htmlsi=lWE1T_axcOaeph06

I hope so too!

The solution would be to have a track with your texture and create a masked track on top of it.

If you hold the right edge of your frame in the timeline with your pen, put a finger somewhere left of that on the timeline and it should let you exptend the length of that frame while pushing other frames to the right. I can't explain it that well but there is a video with quick tips for procreate dreams by Alex Grigg where he mentions it!

Not at the moment.

Thanks!@@StayfDraws

Hello George, unfortunately there is not such a feature in Procreate Dreams.

Thank you @@StayfDraws

ToonSquid.

Just hold the frame and then a window appears. When you press Duplicate you can duplicate it. It is better to go to the timeline and drag the frame by the right side to make the frame hold longer.

​@@StayfDrawsI really wish they add the Hold duration to the filpbook. Having to go back and forth from the flipbook to the timeline to make adjustments is quite unintuitive

@@alpha8here I'm sure they will eventually, it's only been out a day and they're probably working on a lot of things already. Having said that, it is a bit of a surprising oversight -- you'd think that would have come up during testing lol

@@Nightmartlet Right??? Fingers crossed it comes before the year ends

Just drag and drop it from the color menu into the closed shape.

You can move them around easily and duplicate and copy paste them.

No, there is not.

It's in the brush settings? Stabilization menu and there is the streamline and stabilization settings with amount and pressure

In procreate... tho im fairly sure the brush editor is only in procreate, but the brushes can be exported between the two

Thanks for the reply Sebastian. You can indeed only adjust the brushes and stabilization in Procreate and then drag and drop it into Procreate Dreams.

No

If you import brushes with the settings you’d like from procreate to procreate dreams, then you’ll have the stability you’d want I believe

Yes you can, like @Lindraws04 says.

Just be sure to edit the brush just how you’d like it before importing it into the app though since you can’t edit it in the app after words, until procreate makes that an option in a later update

@@Lindraws04 thank you

@@sainttorii9487 anytime! 😊

Hello I explain your question in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqnh0LoHCYg.htmlsi=IdtUP9hZEyl4rbER&t=67

You can make shapes of all of the body parts of the character and animate them. Then you only need to color them once.

@@StayfDraws I’ll try that thank you !

I don’t think think there’s much you can do about your frustrations about frame by frame animation unless you want to do 2d or 3d rigged animation but if you feel like you can’t draw I think the best solution is to just watch tutorials and learn new skills and draw at least once a week 👍 it’ll take a lot of dedication but it’s worth it in the end

In the timeline you can drag the frame you just drew and extend it for the frames you want to hold. Or you can Duplicate the drawing in FlipBook. Just tap and hold the frame and then you can choose duplicate from the menu.

​@@StayfDrawsThat works, thank you.

Initially they had select, when you look at the first video preview of Procreate Dreams. I am now going over the Procreate Dreams Handbook to find out more details. help.procreate.com/dreams/handbook/introduction I also tried importing a png sequence with alpha, but I got the same problems. There is still a lot of things to improve. The best way to give feedback is to go to the forum of Procreate and tell them: folio.procreate.com/discussions/4

@@StayfDraws Hello! Nice video! Thanks for sharing! Regarding importing png files with transparency, I have tried exporting the layers of a previous animation from Procreate saving the images as files in a folder. After sorting them by name, when I drag them to the timeline in an empty Procreate Dreams project, they are ordered correctly and there are no errors with transparency. In my case, each image occupies 20 frames. But by selecting all of them and shortening them while touching the screen with one finger, the maneuver is not very complicated. Then I grouped the layers and everything works fine. Although I agree that it should be a simpler process. We will have to wait for future updates, and without a doubt, for the lasso tool to be implemented, which the entire community will surely appreciate. All the best!

A select tool would be really nice

I feel you 1000%. I really hope all these get addressed soon

i am sorry to hear that. If you have any problems with the app send an email to the makers of the app. help.procreate.com/

What ipad do you use?

I agree! I hope in a new version they will add QuickShape and the selection tool, that would make animating much easier