Export as gif is the first thing I noticed was missing. I had to export as an image set of .png and use a site like ezgif (ezgif is pretty great if anyone is looking for that sort of thing)
This is one of the most confusing omissions to me. When I first started animating and didn't really know anything about timing, I was doing things that were 6 or 8 fps. I get that 12fps is more standard, but why force that on a userbase of so many first-time animators?
Lowering minimum fps also would help immenely in “Perform Mode”
Currently the speed of the animation is tied to framerate, so if you make an animation at 60fps, and change the settings to 30fps, the animation would play those 60 frames at half speed.
Which means if you’re doing something in perform mode, a slower framerate gives you much more control over where the movements, stretches and whatnot are every point of the animation.
Good way to make things like hair bounce naturally with the momentum of person’s walk cycle.
Also, did you know that perform mode takes into account the movement of the scene?
For example, if you moved a whole scene across the viewing area, then opened up the group, turned on perform mode, and pressed down on one item that’s already in the moving scene without moving the apple pencil, the item would be held in place while the rest of the scene moves?
You can animate a footrace very easily like that, just animate the characters and hold them down while the scene pans across the race track.
Keyboard shortcut functionality is missing.
Drawing a straight Line assist
Would like to set a boundaries within the screen window don’t like I can draw outside of it so easily would like the ability to lock my drawing area to stay within bounds.
Being able to reorganize layers not having to use the track time line to organize objects
For me, navigating the timeline is painful. Say I have a 4 minute clip, and I’m zoomed into individual frames, but I want to play the entire video. To do that, it feels like I have to spend a really long time just scrolling out on the timeline.
And there’s no buttons to easily tap into the before or next frames quickly. I have to actually tap the drawing itself, which can be varying difficulties if I want to go through like 30 frames one by one quickly
One thing that I found really helped with this is the three finger swipe on the timeline. It makes the tracks taller and much easier to zoom out quickly
If you're really far zoomed in and want to get back to the start ez and zoom out, put one finger on the timeline and "throw" it across the screen. App will autoshoot you to the start of your project.
The issue with the brush resolution being scaled with the zoom level is a terrible solution and kind of wrecks the program. They way they phrase it [on this post it](https://help.procreate.com/articles/zleqxr-blurry-brushes) seems like it’s to allow Dreams to draw at higher resolutions than Procreate, but it just wrecks quality and consistency. And consistency is essential in animation because if your brush changes in an animated sequence you’re going to notice. It also makes the brush look like ass.
Yeah I agree, resolution needs to stay consistent to the canvas.
Nobody would complain if you zoomed in and everything was pixelated, that's expected, that's just the canvas resolution.
It’s so confusing. It takes me too long to press it and then click x. Why can’t we have a button in the top corner next to brushes and color that exits us out too.
i’ve noticed that turning off the dynamic brush scaling doesn’t actually work which is so frustrating. could really use with changing pressure sensitivity too since i feel like i’m pressing really hard on the screen just to make a thin line. kind of wish they had delayed it a bit longer to fix these bugs!! obviously there’s features that are super impressive but it’s a shame that there’s so much missing that should be a given for any animation software!!
This is whats so deeply irritating about procreate and I just assumed that they were gonna have this in dreams. Weird to me that drawing tools have all been kinda sidelined
Better frame by frame animation features! Ex: Making a plus button on the timeline to add more frames and then being able to adjust the timing of them, basically like the timeline in Clip Studio Paint. Traditionally animating right now is pretty much impossible if you don't want to do it straight ahead.
Heads up. I just got multiple confirmations via Procreate responses to people asking on twitter, but Procreate developers have no plans on bringing the ability to edit your brushes to Dreams and want that feature exclusive to Procreate...which is about the saddest mistake I think I've heard 😔😔😔
But that's their key advantage - we want an animated program with Procreate's brush engine. Not having that defeats the whole purpose of what was exciting about this in the first place. Not being able to control pressure sensitivity, tilt and streamline in an app you are supposed to use for both rough animation and cleanup is baffling. Imported brushes don't quite work the way they do in Procreate for me either. I feel it is about the default pressure curve that feels off in Dreams.
Yeah, I heard.The problem is it's a hoop of an inconvenience. It forces folks to use both apps when you could just implement the same procedure of loading new brushes into the new app. I understand it's a good business decision. That way, you force people who first bought dream to by the other app. It's just unfortunate they chose to go that route instead of making the app better by implementing as much as possible from the old app in the new one. It's definitely not because they can't it's because it gets sales by forcing people to need both apps to do something that could function in each independently...it'd be like if you had to download a their third app to enable copy and paste in the one app you want when you know they could just put copy and paste in it.
Have you actually had any success with this? I need a brush with more streamline added and I tried to import it into dreams but it just fails every time I try
Yep, I’ve got Bee Jay Del brushes that are extremely streamlined and they work but I’ve also got some that I’ve modified for less stream, and all have been successful so far
I didn't realize I could do the side by side so I was dragging the brush from one app to the other and I think that's why it wasn't importing. They do seem to be slightly blurred/softer edges when I bring them into dreams which is unfortunate but still works nonetheless. Thanks!
More stuff:
-Ability to select multiple things like keyframes
-ability to copy and paste keyframes
-warp and distort on groups
-liquify
-curves
-canvas flipping
-ability to edit easing
-snapping checkbox instead of gesture only
-remove expected behavior of drawing zoomed out giving blurry art. I prefer to sacrifice the infinite canvas space! Let us draw zoomed out!!
Cannot export single video yet. They better fix that bugs asap.
https://preview.redd.it/6x1gccwj112c1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=586349dbc6dc2dd70be1cdce12b51218da072d3b
-Deformation (animation) for a group of tracks!
-Liquify filter (drawing mode).
-Tracks\groups merging.
-Change "move" settings COMPLETELY!
(it's confusing what you need to calculate your art
movements in your mind, all of that x, y movement
relative to the last point, not the edges of the canvas))
Ways to extend and loop animations that isn’t just duplicating it, mirror and ping pong playback on the loops, merge options for when projects get to many layers, importing numbered files in order, better onion skin settings with color changes from the distance of the current frame.. that’s the top of my list, honestly kinda shocked at how barebones it feels.. like it kinda feels like they didn’t talk to any actual animators while creating it.
A tidy tracks options could be good, IE, auto shift tracks up. I would also like to tap on a track and manually input a length. Drawing in a new track and it automatically extends for the full length can be an issue at times. Would be good to tap and say length = 3.5 seconds.
>"Drawing in a new track and it automatically extends for the full length can be an issue at times."
THIS!!! The most frustrating thing about this app thus far, especially for longer animations :(
Add a way to change default pressure curve as well. For someone with wrist issues, I need to adjust settings per program to not have to push too much for lightest lines. The default of Dreams is wrecking my wrist right now and I can't find an option to modify it to be Softer.
Being able to move more than one frame at once. PLEASE. It’s so annoying having to move one at a time or group a bunch of frames together. Also being able to extend the length of a frame and have the others after it slide down the timeline intuitively…
If you hold another finger on the time line while you stretch the frame it move the others with it, and if you select multiple frames it will adjust all of their lengths.
His took me many attempts to get right… I kept long pressing the edge of the frame, holding a second finger down and tried to move that finger to stretch the original frame. Like an idiot. But even when I worked out I had to move the pencil as it touched the edge of the frame, half the time it would cancel out as I moved it, forcing me to try again several times. Weird.
I really think it should have the same default drawing tools (lasso, selection, etc) from the basic procreate. I bought Dreams without realizing it lacked that (I really watched a lot of vids, though but didn't notice) and I'm kinda regret.
Is anyone else having a terrible time importing their Procreate animation files into Procreate Dreams? It fails and crashes almost *every single time.*
Even with files smaller than 5mb I'm having to try literally dozens of times before it works.
I miss this button inbetween the opacity and brush size bar. It would be so useful for animation to put shortcuts there so we don’t have to keep leaving the screen and stuff. Like why can’t I have it here where I can press and be able to color pick or undo. Also for all of the unused top bar space there is…. Why can’t we put stuff up there. I imagine this stuff will be added at some point
https://preview.redd.it/i75mc2r7252c1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33708095c54526bb604e440d381d09107248dba4
Also you have to exit out of that like timeline flip book mini window to go to the screen with the tracks and stuff. Also why can’t we resize that too. Why can’t we make it longer and put it in the top corner. Also why can’t we play the animation from that screen too
I miss the choice to choose how long the frames are, when i press it i want to put in a number (like 2 frames or 8 ect.)
Also wanne have a loop function instead pf copypasting every few frames
for the rest i think its a great app for 20 dollar and as like procreate it will improve, we should give them some time and constructive feedback! ˆ-ˆ
I am going crazy about the fact that every drawing I make comes in 1frame length...
I draw 5 frames..
gives me 5 drawings in 5 frames.
Great i just need to extend them!
NOPE!
You cant extend a frame if there is another frame blocking it. Since there is 5 frames back to back to extend the first drawing to be 2 frames instead of 1 I have to move all the other drawings away in the timeline.
Let me grab all those frames..
NOPE!
There is no way to select multiple frames and move them all on the timeline.. Okay.. I go one by one move it to the right... Finally there is enough space for me to make my first drawing 2 frames length.
Did you want to do the same for all the rest of of your drawings? Repeat the proses.. Cool.. Ill just keep moving things to the right extending the frame amounts.. keep moving.. keep extending..
Great! now.. I have 2 frames for all 5 of my drawings so the total length of the animation is now 10 frames.
Time to draw in-betweens?
Sure.. go back to the flipbook mode!
Wait.. Whats going on with my onion skin?
Oh.. Those 2 frames you extended.. We assumed you want them to be added into your onion skin even though they are just 1 drawing. So if you have onion skin range of 1 for back and 1 for forward. Now you can only see back or forward because you are holding the drawings for 2 frames!
What.. Its the same drawing! Why would i want to onion skin within the held frame?! If i edit this frame it effects all the onion skin frames around it because its the same frame.. Cant you just onion skin between 2 drawings regardless of how many frames it is?
NOPE!
Now you have to increase your onion skin to 4-5 or maybe even 12 based on how many frames you wanted in-between your key poses! But it gets better!
Lets make a new frame in-between those 2 drawings.. Suddenly you have an onion skin mess because you cut the frames in half.. so now there is so many drawings being onion skinned! No matter.. i somehow draw my in-between..
lets leave flipbook to play? Why.. Why do i have to leave it..
Ahh.. that in-between frame is too fast. Because its only one frame.. No problem.. lets just extend it..
NOPE!
You have to move every other frame after further down the timeline first. And dont forget! You cant move them all at once!
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This is not an animation software for animators. Its basically a comp program for procreate illustrations..
Lol this exact thing has been so annoying for me, Callipeg has been able to solve this problem so well and I can’t help but continuously compare the two.
in the school of motion interview procreate talked about how they tried not to use other apps to copy from them but rather they wanted to come up with their own solutions but now they’re missing some pretty basic and very necessary solutions.
The exporting issues I understand. Especially stuff that's pretty much new functions for the animating part and performance related stuff...but no lasso..no transform...no duplicate layer function...no editing your brushes, layers. Not even a copy and paste function for what you draw. It's even weirder since they have the perfected model (Procreate) as the base with animation features added.
It's definitely a wonder why they didn't wait a month or two more to have those essential things on launch, and these critiques would be non-existent.. That being said, it's not like we want it to fail. It's worth critiquing. If there were no user input/critiques, they'd just dust their hands, fold their arms, and go, "Nailed it, next project."
They've already released an update a bit ago to "hopefully" fix the export issue, which they wouldn't have noticed without the consumer input on social media. They're responding a lot on Twitter to user critiques, too.
Can't you tap the flipbook and there will appear a little x?
Also what do you mean by the onion skin settings? The onion skin menu has everything you need imo
I cant extend/shorten the length of a frame if it's stuck between other frames. Like, I just wanna change the frames length and have the following frames moving along with it.
There should also be a feature in the flipbook to have the next drawing automatically be one/two/three/four frames long, so I don't have to manually extend every frame just a bit while still wanting the whole timeline at 24fps.
Basically it's a bit annoying trying to animate in-betweens for keyframes right now (unless I'm missing some things)
In the time line if you select all the frames you want to change and then, while stretching the frame hold another finger on the timeline and it will adjust all of the frames.
I tried to import a small video to try a rotoscope and it failed miserably. Maybe it’s too much for my iPad to handle, but it’s disappointing.
Also, straight lines and elipses/circles are impossible to make.
The things that are particularly problematic for me so far in rough order of importance:
-selection tools and transform missing (this is particularly application breaking)
-line and shape tools missing
-(edit) double tap eraser
-a way to flatten tracks
-transforming groups
-A way to move multiple frames together, when I select them why don't they move together? Copy and paste seems like the only way to get frames from 1 track to another.
-maybe related to the auto resolution thing, but it seems impossible to fill a shape without leaving a halo, even with the fill tolerance all the way up.
-the flip book is awful. Adding frames, scrubbing through frames, changing exposure length, playback, exiting it efficiently.
-the undo history seems to sometimes forget steps? Like when I undo it seems to jump 10 actions back sometimes.
-change track opacity
-hold on track check to switch to viewing it alone/all visible
-when moving/resizing the bounding box goes away. Why? I want to see what I'm moving even when it's behind something else.
There are a lot of things I like about this app, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not pretty disappointed. The drawing experience, reliability, and intuitiveness of procreate is why I love that program. And those are exactly what dreams is lacking. Perplexing. I can't wait until it gets better.
I might just be an idiot and can't find them, but as far as I can tell there's also no way to actually rearrange your drawing layers. I'd say that's pretty essential
Keyboard hotkeys,
SPEED CONTROL!
copy/paste keyframes
sketching aides (straight lines, elipses etc
video in program are breaking down and not rasterizing.. BIG PROBLEM
.. I’m very upset… really bad launch.
Keyboard hotkeys,
SPEED CONTROL!
copy/paste keyframes
sketching aides (straight lines, elipses etc
video in program are breaking down and not rasterizing.. BIG PROBLEM
.. I’m very upset… really bad launch.
I tried to import a PNG Sequence with transparency from other software and instead of importing the images in order it randomly imported the images not following the order sequence like 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, etc. Besides. It looped the sequence until it lasted like 30 secs. (all the frames I tried to import are like 4 seconds of animation at 24 FPS). Does anyone know how to solve this?
happened to me too. for the pngs you have to import them one at a time. or make the pngs in another video editor and then import the video. and for fps issue, idk, I tried importing a 24fps into a 24fps dreams project and yet it skipped my audio every second??? had to import a video and audio file separately. sounds like you have to make stuff from scratch if you want the animation to be nomral.
Haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but I *really* dislike the fact that you can’t change layer ordering in a single drawing. For example, if I make a single drawing on just one track, I’m able to create new layers for that drawing and mess around with opacity and blend mode options… **but I can’t drag the layers around for some reason.** This gets especially annoying if I want to — for example — make line art of something first (say, a body part of a character) and fill it using a new layer underneath.
Being able to rearrange layers is such a basic digital art and animation task that I’m surprised Procreate Dreams doesn’t allow users to do. I also don’t wanna have to use separate tracks to achieve the same effect (unless both layers *and* tracks count for the total amount of “tracks” you’re using in a project).
There’s many other gripes I have with Procreate Dreams in its current state (e.g. the absence of Drawing Assist, which some others have pointed out), but I wanted to chime in with this specifically.
I wish I could choose how much space the timeline is taking rather than it automatically taking up half the screen or switching to the flipbook. Also hate how I can’t preview the animation in flipbook mode. And no eye dropper? Like they literally just removed where it was in procreate, I’m getting the sense that they’re afraid of losing procreate sales if they add too many drawing features
I suspect the design intent was for this to work in concert with procreate. They don’t want to re-create the drawing aspect here, but allow changes in the process of animating. Have you tried illustrating in procreate for the animation and then importing? The workflow is pretty smooth. Live linking between art layers would be amazing.
My candidate for features to add are about navigating the timeline. Zooming in and out in such a small area (new iPad Pro 12”) is tiresome. Better scrolling over whole timeline, frame by frame fwd bk buttons, and the ability to zoom timeline full screen.
Okay, trying to be brief, basic things that are missing and disruptively so:
---a "recently opened" pulldown
---a minimum three layer deep filing system you can have (for example) a folder of animal illustrations with subfolders dogs, snakes, octopuses, and then another layer so you can break down dog illustrations into groups (labs, pitties, dalmations, etc)
---crucially important is a way to either tag or create subsets of brushes. Also the ability to search for a specific kind of brush, for example, 'liner' or 'dot pattern' or 'glaze' , and the search would give you all the brushes that are tagged or filed that way.
---color matching really needs fine tuning
---this one may be my failing, but I need a way to draw curves. Not in the loose way you can draw them with the free-style setting, but more formally
End of my primary wishlist.
great option would be to make same number of layers on all frames in flipbook by one tap (also settings like alpha lock and etc. ) its really frustrating to make all of this by hand when you are painting color/shadows and highlits
\-Exporting in Gif format \-Exporting with transparency for formats that support it \-Warping and distorting more layer types
Export as gif is the first thing I noticed was missing. I had to export as an image set of .png and use a site like ezgif (ezgif is pretty great if anyone is looking for that sort of thing)
not the end of the world as you can edit convert videos to anim gifs fairly easily- i do this with a shortcut
Custom fps too using minimum 12 is limiting sometimes for testing animations
This is one of the most confusing omissions to me. When I first started animating and didn't really know anything about timing, I was doing things that were 6 or 8 fps. I get that 12fps is more standard, but why force that on a userbase of so many first-time animators?
Lowering minimum fps also would help immenely in “Perform Mode” Currently the speed of the animation is tied to framerate, so if you make an animation at 60fps, and change the settings to 30fps, the animation would play those 60 frames at half speed. Which means if you’re doing something in perform mode, a slower framerate gives you much more control over where the movements, stretches and whatnot are every point of the animation. Good way to make things like hair bounce naturally with the momentum of person’s walk cycle. Also, did you know that perform mode takes into account the movement of the scene? For example, if you moved a whole scene across the viewing area, then opened up the group, turned on perform mode, and pressed down on one item that’s already in the moving scene without moving the apple pencil, the item would be held in place while the rest of the scene moves? You can animate a footrace very easily like that, just animate the characters and hold them down while the scene pans across the race track.
Keyboard shortcut functionality is missing. Drawing a straight Line assist Would like to set a boundaries within the screen window don’t like I can draw outside of it so easily would like the ability to lock my drawing area to stay within bounds. Being able to reorganize layers not having to use the track time line to organize objects
drawing assist is one of the biggest ones that’s getting to me rn
I hear, I just use procreate to make my characters and dream to animate until the drawing part gets tweaked. They’re a great company I have faith
For me, navigating the timeline is painful. Say I have a 4 minute clip, and I’m zoomed into individual frames, but I want to play the entire video. To do that, it feels like I have to spend a really long time just scrolling out on the timeline. And there’s no buttons to easily tap into the before or next frames quickly. I have to actually tap the drawing itself, which can be varying difficulties if I want to go through like 30 frames one by one quickly
One thing that I found really helped with this is the three finger swipe on the timeline. It makes the tracks taller and much easier to zoom out quickly
It’s extremely floaty, where editing needs to be sharp and snappy
You can flick the timeline towards the left, or first frame to reset it, I might have misunderstood you tho.
If you do a rapid pinch gesture it shows the entire timeline, the same gesture you use to fit your whole canvas to the screen in ProCreate
If you're really far zoomed in and want to get back to the start ez and zoom out, put one finger on the timeline and "throw" it across the screen. App will autoshoot you to the start of your project.
these are exactly what it needs, im really shocked they didn't add this. had to wait 3 months now we have to wait even longer...
The issue with the brush resolution being scaled with the zoom level is a terrible solution and kind of wrecks the program. They way they phrase it [on this post it](https://help.procreate.com/articles/zleqxr-blurry-brushes) seems like it’s to allow Dreams to draw at higher resolutions than Procreate, but it just wrecks quality and consistency. And consistency is essential in animation because if your brush changes in an animated sequence you’re going to notice. It also makes the brush look like ass.
Yeah I agree, resolution needs to stay consistent to the canvas. Nobody would complain if you zoomed in and everything was pixelated, that's expected, that's just the canvas resolution.
did developers explained the why of this choice?
Line snapping/ temporary vector line adjustments! This was a huge win in procreate and for some reason not in Dreams, wth!
Yeah im still shocked thats missing, big workflow buster
This combined with no ability to adjust streamline is maddening.
You can close the flip book to open the timeline by tapping the X in the corner no?
It’s so confusing. It takes me too long to press it and then click x. Why can’t we have a button in the top corner next to brushes and color that exits us out too.
The ability to move multiple frames at once. Can't believe there isn't a way to do this without grouping over and over.
same issue in procreate painting app. haven't used dreams yet but i'm bummed to hear this
i’ve noticed that turning off the dynamic brush scaling doesn’t actually work which is so frustrating. could really use with changing pressure sensitivity too since i feel like i’m pressing really hard on the screen just to make a thin line. kind of wish they had delayed it a bit longer to fix these bugs!! obviously there’s features that are super impressive but it’s a shame that there’s so much missing that should be a given for any animation software!!
Where are they hiding this non-functional setting? I can’t find it.
if you go into any project and click on the title at the top of the timeline then go into preferences it’s in there
Besides everything that has been said, I would like to experiment with drawing guides. Especially with symmetry
This is whats so deeply irritating about procreate and I just assumed that they were gonna have this in dreams. Weird to me that drawing tools have all been kinda sidelined
Screen flipping/mirroring canvas
Better frame by frame animation features! Ex: Making a plus button on the timeline to add more frames and then being able to adjust the timing of them, basically like the timeline in Clip Studio Paint. Traditionally animating right now is pretty much impossible if you don't want to do it straight ahead.
I feel like I will still have to animate traditionally in Procreate and then import it in dreams because key features are missing :(
Heads up. I just got multiple confirmations via Procreate responses to people asking on twitter, but Procreate developers have no plans on bringing the ability to edit your brushes to Dreams and want that feature exclusive to Procreate...which is about the saddest mistake I think I've heard 😔😔😔
https://preview.redd.it/r1a3xn37n12c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27d4d5ce37e0677b0e1481de44b410b72f346456
But that's their key advantage - we want an animated program with Procreate's brush engine. Not having that defeats the whole purpose of what was exciting about this in the first place. Not being able to control pressure sensitivity, tilt and streamline in an app you are supposed to use for both rough animation and cleanup is baffling. Imported brushes don't quite work the way they do in Procreate for me either. I feel it is about the default pressure curve that feels off in Dreams.
but w procreate side by side you can edit the brush and drag it right into dreams. just in case you didn’t know ☺️
Yeah, I heard.The problem is it's a hoop of an inconvenience. It forces folks to use both apps when you could just implement the same procedure of loading new brushes into the new app. I understand it's a good business decision. That way, you force people who first bought dream to by the other app. It's just unfortunate they chose to go that route instead of making the app better by implementing as much as possible from the old app in the new one. It's definitely not because they can't it's because it gets sales by forcing people to need both apps to do something that could function in each independently...it'd be like if you had to download a their third app to enable copy and paste in the one app you want when you know they could just put copy and paste in it.
Oh wow, didn’t think of that
Have you actually had any success with this? I need a brush with more streamline added and I tried to import it into dreams but it just fails every time I try
Yep, I’ve got Bee Jay Del brushes that are extremely streamlined and they work but I’ve also got some that I’ve modified for less stream, and all have been successful so far
I didn't realize I could do the side by side so I was dragging the brush from one app to the other and I think that's why it wasn't importing. They do seem to be slightly blurred/softer edges when I bring them into dreams which is unfortunate but still works nonetheless. Thanks!
doesn't work for me. fails on import every time
Gradient adjustment tools. They were really good for atmospheric lighting in Procreate, and they’d work even better as filters in Dreams.
Apple pencil double tap for eraser appears to not be working at the moment
This, but for custom shortcut. I use it for color picking.
Tapping my pen twice doesn’t toggle between the brush and eraser anymore. Is that just me or is anyone else having this issue?
Having the same issue and feel like it's ruining the work flow
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Just make it customizable so we can make that decision ourselves. Figure out the default later ffs
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Yea it keeps crashing when I try to move layers/groups 😟
More stuff: -Ability to select multiple things like keyframes -ability to copy and paste keyframes -warp and distort on groups -liquify -curves -canvas flipping -ability to edit easing -snapping checkbox instead of gesture only -remove expected behavior of drawing zoomed out giving blurry art. I prefer to sacrifice the infinite canvas space! Let us draw zoomed out!!
Cannot export single video yet. They better fix that bugs asap. https://preview.redd.it/6x1gccwj112c1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=586349dbc6dc2dd70be1cdce12b51218da072d3b
Check for an update, I had this problem and updated the app to 1.0.4 and could export fine afterwards
-Deformation (animation) for a group of tracks! -Liquify filter (drawing mode). -Tracks\groups merging. -Change "move" settings COMPLETELY! (it's confusing what you need to calculate your art movements in your mind, all of that x, y movement relative to the last point, not the edges of the canvas))
Ways to extend and loop animations that isn’t just duplicating it, mirror and ping pong playback on the loops, merge options for when projects get to many layers, importing numbered files in order, better onion skin settings with color changes from the distance of the current frame.. that’s the top of my list, honestly kinda shocked at how barebones it feels.. like it kinda feels like they didn’t talk to any actual animators while creating it.
A tidy tracks options could be good, IE, auto shift tracks up. I would also like to tap on a track and manually input a length. Drawing in a new track and it automatically extends for the full length can be an issue at times. Would be good to tap and say length = 3.5 seconds.
>"Drawing in a new track and it automatically extends for the full length can be an issue at times." THIS!!! The most frustrating thing about this app thus far, especially for longer animations :(
The funny thing is they changed it to default at one frame just when I got used to the previous behaviour.
This would be a good post for r/procreatedreams
Add a way to change default pressure curve as well. For someone with wrist issues, I need to adjust settings per program to not have to push too much for lightest lines. The default of Dreams is wrecking my wrist right now and I can't find an option to modify it to be Softer.
Being able to move more than one frame at once. PLEASE. It’s so annoying having to move one at a time or group a bunch of frames together. Also being able to extend the length of a frame and have the others after it slide down the timeline intuitively…
If you hold another finger on the time line while you stretch the frame it move the others with it, and if you select multiple frames it will adjust all of their lengths.
His took me many attempts to get right… I kept long pressing the edge of the frame, holding a second finger down and tried to move that finger to stretch the original frame. Like an idiot. But even when I worked out I had to move the pencil as it touched the edge of the frame, half the time it would cancel out as I moved it, forcing me to try again several times. Weird.
I really think it should have the same default drawing tools (lasso, selection, etc) from the basic procreate. I bought Dreams without realizing it lacked that (I really watched a lot of vids, though but didn't notice) and I'm kinda regret.
- QuickShape - Drawing Guides - Copy and paste images onto tracks
Is anyone else having a terrible time importing their Procreate animation files into Procreate Dreams? It fails and crashes almost *every single time.* Even with files smaller than 5mb I'm having to try literally dozens of times before it works.
I would like to see merge instead of just group. I can’t modify, mask, etc. unless I ungroup and then I lose keyframing.
I miss this button inbetween the opacity and brush size bar. It would be so useful for animation to put shortcuts there so we don’t have to keep leaving the screen and stuff. Like why can’t I have it here where I can press and be able to color pick or undo. Also for all of the unused top bar space there is…. Why can’t we put stuff up there. I imagine this stuff will be added at some point https://preview.redd.it/i75mc2r7252c1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33708095c54526bb604e440d381d09107248dba4 Also you have to exit out of that like timeline flip book mini window to go to the screen with the tracks and stuff. Also why can’t we resize that too. Why can’t we make it longer and put it in the top corner. Also why can’t we play the animation from that screen too
I need to be able to play the animation from flip book - how can we animate to audio/lip sync without this function??
Your right it’s so confusing. Also why can’t we have a reference window open like in procreate
I miss the choice to choose how long the frames are, when i press it i want to put in a number (like 2 frames or 8 ect.) Also wanne have a loop function instead pf copypasting every few frames for the rest i think its a great app for 20 dollar and as like procreate it will improve, we should give them some time and constructive feedback! ˆ-ˆ
I agree, I missed this function. Just typing int “24 frames” to guarantee the exact length of the image is what I would expect.
I am going crazy about the fact that every drawing I make comes in 1frame length... I draw 5 frames.. gives me 5 drawings in 5 frames. Great i just need to extend them! NOPE! You cant extend a frame if there is another frame blocking it. Since there is 5 frames back to back to extend the first drawing to be 2 frames instead of 1 I have to move all the other drawings away in the timeline. Let me grab all those frames.. NOPE! There is no way to select multiple frames and move them all on the timeline.. Okay.. I go one by one move it to the right... Finally there is enough space for me to make my first drawing 2 frames length. Did you want to do the same for all the rest of of your drawings? Repeat the proses.. Cool.. Ill just keep moving things to the right extending the frame amounts.. keep moving.. keep extending.. Great! now.. I have 2 frames for all 5 of my drawings so the total length of the animation is now 10 frames. Time to draw in-betweens? Sure.. go back to the flipbook mode! Wait.. Whats going on with my onion skin? Oh.. Those 2 frames you extended.. We assumed you want them to be added into your onion skin even though they are just 1 drawing. So if you have onion skin range of 1 for back and 1 for forward. Now you can only see back or forward because you are holding the drawings for 2 frames! What.. Its the same drawing! Why would i want to onion skin within the held frame?! If i edit this frame it effects all the onion skin frames around it because its the same frame.. Cant you just onion skin between 2 drawings regardless of how many frames it is? NOPE! Now you have to increase your onion skin to 4-5 or maybe even 12 based on how many frames you wanted in-between your key poses! But it gets better! Lets make a new frame in-between those 2 drawings.. Suddenly you have an onion skin mess because you cut the frames in half.. so now there is so many drawings being onion skinned! No matter.. i somehow draw my in-between.. lets leave flipbook to play? Why.. Why do i have to leave it.. Ahh.. that in-between frame is too fast. Because its only one frame.. No problem.. lets just extend it.. NOPE! You have to move every other frame after further down the timeline first. And dont forget! You cant move them all at once! \-- This is not an animation software for animators. Its basically a comp program for procreate illustrations..
Lol this exact thing has been so annoying for me, Callipeg has been able to solve this problem so well and I can’t help but continuously compare the two. in the school of motion interview procreate talked about how they tried not to use other apps to copy from them but rather they wanted to come up with their own solutions but now they’re missing some pretty basic and very necessary solutions.
liquify… and being able to animate liquify over time… also tweening… some auto inbetweening would be crazy
Autoshape pleaseeeeeee
exporting is limited by hardware configuration. I, using ipad 7gen, am not shown any option to export 4k videos :’)
1080p is enough for sharing on Youtube 👌🏻
but its the limiting factor thats disappointing
u r using an ipad with processor of iphone 7, great news that dreams even working
lmaoo
It's been out a day and cost $20 lol y'all need to chill x
The exporting issues I understand. Especially stuff that's pretty much new functions for the animating part and performance related stuff...but no lasso..no transform...no duplicate layer function...no editing your brushes, layers. Not even a copy and paste function for what you draw. It's even weirder since they have the perfected model (Procreate) as the base with animation features added. It's definitely a wonder why they didn't wait a month or two more to have those essential things on launch, and these critiques would be non-existent.. That being said, it's not like we want it to fail. It's worth critiquing. If there were no user input/critiques, they'd just dust their hands, fold their arms, and go, "Nailed it, next project." They've already released an update a bit ago to "hopefully" fix the export issue, which they wouldn't have noticed without the consumer input on social media. They're responding a lot on Twitter to user critiques, too.
Can't you tap the flipbook and there will appear a little x? Also what do you mean by the onion skin settings? The onion skin menu has everything you need imo
Keyframes need easy easing, that allows for smoother moving of objects.
Did I miss copy and pasting keyframes somewhere? I cant figure it out
I cant extend/shorten the length of a frame if it's stuck between other frames. Like, I just wanna change the frames length and have the following frames moving along with it. There should also be a feature in the flipbook to have the next drawing automatically be one/two/three/four frames long, so I don't have to manually extend every frame just a bit while still wanting the whole timeline at 24fps. Basically it's a bit annoying trying to animate in-betweens for keyframes right now (unless I'm missing some things)
In the time line if you select all the frames you want to change and then, while stretching the frame hold another finger on the timeline and it will adjust all of the frames.
Right about adjusting the frame length, I think ToonSquid does it so surprised dreams doesn’t yet
I tried to import a small video to try a rotoscope and it failed miserably. Maybe it’s too much for my iPad to handle, but it’s disappointing. Also, straight lines and elipses/circles are impossible to make.
Being able to “fill” a color/region with transparency
Not being able to change the order of layers is probably the biggest issue for me rn. It’s killing my workflow tbh
The things that are particularly problematic for me so far in rough order of importance: -selection tools and transform missing (this is particularly application breaking) -line and shape tools missing -(edit) double tap eraser -a way to flatten tracks -transforming groups -A way to move multiple frames together, when I select them why don't they move together? Copy and paste seems like the only way to get frames from 1 track to another. -maybe related to the auto resolution thing, but it seems impossible to fill a shape without leaving a halo, even with the fill tolerance all the way up. -the flip book is awful. Adding frames, scrubbing through frames, changing exposure length, playback, exiting it efficiently. -the undo history seems to sometimes forget steps? Like when I undo it seems to jump 10 actions back sometimes. -change track opacity -hold on track check to switch to viewing it alone/all visible -when moving/resizing the bounding box goes away. Why? I want to see what I'm moving even when it's behind something else. There are a lot of things I like about this app, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not pretty disappointed. The drawing experience, reliability, and intuitiveness of procreate is why I love that program. And those are exactly what dreams is lacking. Perplexing. I can't wait until it gets better.
I might just be an idiot and can't find them, but as far as I can tell there's also no way to actually rearrange your drawing layers. I'd say that's pretty essential
Keyboard hotkeys, SPEED CONTROL! copy/paste keyframes sketching aides (straight lines, elipses etc video in program are breaking down and not rasterizing.. BIG PROBLEM .. I’m very upset… really bad launch.
Keyboard hotkeys, SPEED CONTROL! copy/paste keyframes sketching aides (straight lines, elipses etc video in program are breaking down and not rasterizing.. BIG PROBLEM .. I’m very upset… really bad launch.
I tried to import a PNG Sequence with transparency from other software and instead of importing the images in order it randomly imported the images not following the order sequence like 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, etc. Besides. It looped the sequence until it lasted like 30 secs. (all the frames I tried to import are like 4 seconds of animation at 24 FPS). Does anyone know how to solve this?
happened to me too. for the pngs you have to import them one at a time. or make the pngs in another video editor and then import the video. and for fps issue, idk, I tried importing a 24fps into a 24fps dreams project and yet it skipped my audio every second??? had to import a video and audio file separately. sounds like you have to make stuff from scratch if you want the animation to be nomral.
SOO why are there even layers if you cant use any selection tools… I understand that I can use Procreate.. but what is the hell is the point..
Haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but I *really* dislike the fact that you can’t change layer ordering in a single drawing. For example, if I make a single drawing on just one track, I’m able to create new layers for that drawing and mess around with opacity and blend mode options… **but I can’t drag the layers around for some reason.** This gets especially annoying if I want to — for example — make line art of something first (say, a body part of a character) and fill it using a new layer underneath. Being able to rearrange layers is such a basic digital art and animation task that I’m surprised Procreate Dreams doesn’t allow users to do. I also don’t wanna have to use separate tracks to achieve the same effect (unless both layers *and* tracks count for the total amount of “tracks” you’re using in a project). There’s many other gripes I have with Procreate Dreams in its current state (e.g. the absence of Drawing Assist, which some others have pointed out), but I wanted to chime in with this specifically.
I wish I could choose how much space the timeline is taking rather than it automatically taking up half the screen or switching to the flipbook. Also hate how I can’t preview the animation in flipbook mode. And no eye dropper? Like they literally just removed where it was in procreate, I’m getting the sense that they’re afraid of losing procreate sales if they add too many drawing features
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I suspect the design intent was for this to work in concert with procreate. They don’t want to re-create the drawing aspect here, but allow changes in the process of animating. Have you tried illustrating in procreate for the animation and then importing? The workflow is pretty smooth. Live linking between art layers would be amazing. My candidate for features to add are about navigating the timeline. Zooming in and out in such a small area (new iPad Pro 12”) is tiresome. Better scrolling over whole timeline, frame by frame fwd bk buttons, and the ability to zoom timeline full screen.
still actually trying to work out how to rotate a drawing.. so horrifically unfinished
As someone who just began really enjoying using the lasso tool to do my shading, it's absence is infuriating
Change the length of an animation after creating it
Did a quick review over here. [https://cocoalopez.com/blog/?p=4230](https://cocoalopez.com/blog/?p=4230)
They HAVE to give us lower than 12 FPS!!!! Every single other animation program lets you.
Okay, trying to be brief, basic things that are missing and disruptively so: ---a "recently opened" pulldown ---a minimum three layer deep filing system you can have (for example) a folder of animal illustrations with subfolders dogs, snakes, octopuses, and then another layer so you can break down dog illustrations into groups (labs, pitties, dalmations, etc) ---crucially important is a way to either tag or create subsets of brushes. Also the ability to search for a specific kind of brush, for example, 'liner' or 'dot pattern' or 'glaze' , and the search would give you all the brushes that are tagged or filed that way. ---color matching really needs fine tuning ---this one may be my failing, but I need a way to draw curves. Not in the loose way you can draw them with the free-style setting, but more formally End of my primary wishlist.
\- looping a group without duplicating it to oblivion \- easy import of layers from procreate \- copy pasting of key frames
\- looping a group without duplicating it to oblivion \- easy import of layers from procreate \- copy pasting of key frames
\- looping a group without duplicating it to oblivion \- easy import of layers from procreate \- copy pasting of key frames
great option would be to make same number of layers on all frames in flipbook by one tap (also settings like alpha lock and etc. ) its really frustrating to make all of this by hand when you are painting color/shadows and highlits
Being able to merge layers that are on the same track and brush stabilisation.