Procreate Dreams: Simple ways to Enhance your Art Reels on Social Media

1. Procreate Dreams: Enhance your Art: You're an artist and you know that procreate dreams is changing the face of animation. But it's so daunting and complicated to learn a brand new app and all its features, like all great apps, when they come out, you're struggling because it's a little overwhelming. You don't know what to do, how to navigate it. So I'm here to help you with that. Hi, I'm sank. And I've been a digital artist for about three years. I'm a children's book author and an illustrator. And I love procreate. And of course I love procreate dreams as well. So join me in this journey. I'd love to have you in my class. In this course, I simplify how you can use Procreate Dreams and enhance your art for reels on social media. Using three of my artworks done on procreate, I use both apps, Procreate and Procreate Dreams together to look at the possibilities you can use to enhance your art reels on social media. So join me in this adventure as we work on the basics, simplifying Procreate Dreams. Let's get started. 2. Procreate Dreams: Project: For your project, I'd like you to take a transparent PNG of your art and import it on to Procreate Dreams. Then you have to create something in the stage of your artwork coming in and coming out of it. And then export it and share it in skill share. I'd love to see what you've done with your artwork. 3. Procreate Dreams: What you need for this class: In this class, I'm going to simplify Procreate Dreams in the context of an artist posting reels on social media. It's not easy to always come up with great and creative solutions. But Procreate Dreams has made it so easy to think out of the box a lot more than we ever imagined. For this class, you need an ipad and an Apple pencil. You need the Procreate Dreams app and you need the procreate app. This course is primarily for beginners, and you don't need any experience in animation to do this course. 4. Procreate Dreams: Animation Deer : The first thing that I look at is creating the art on a separate layer. This isn't just for annovation, it is also if you want to make a pattern out of whatever object you're creating. Like right now you can see a background and the deer, but it's done in two separate layers. Later on, you can separate the leg. Separate the tail if you want to have the walking. But for this class, I simplified it and I had the tail and the legs and the antlers in one layer and the background in another layer. The PNG is transparent. I opened procreate dreams and on the time line itself dragged and dropped in the two window into the time line. Now it was a very huge file, so you have to re it. Then again, I dragged and dropped the layer below which was the background. Now you can make your own layer within procreate dreams as well. But just for fun, I was just trying to see what dragged and dropped around. The main color point is all not going to be seen, but it's also your canvas which you can work on. As you will see what I did to have the animation come into the main frame. I took the deer and I selected it and I took it out. And then I pressed the record button and I made the deer walk into the frame and out of the frame. That's it. Again, making the deer walk into the frame and out of it reveal in and out of the deer, which I then went and exported the file. And this is the final file of the deer coming in and going out. 5. Procreate Dream: Animation Elephant: So with this elephant, I tried something different. I made a transparent PNG. So when you open procreate dreams, you have options of creating a new movie. And I chose a square mode. I dragged this PNG straight onto the time line and it gave me a white screen. However, it was transparent. I created a new track, and I put that track underneath the elephant, and I dragged and dropped the color into the timeline. Now that didn't work, then I dragged it onto the stage. This area is called the stage. That is where you need to drag and drop whatever colors you want to drag and drop. It doesn't happen on the timeline, so I wanted to change the color, so I dragged a different color again like I'm showing you on the timeline. But that didn't happen. It happens on the stage. Then the elephant was a little too large for the stage, so as you can see, the ears are coming out, the tail is coming out. Whatever's out of this square will not be in your final video. You need to adjust the size to make sure it fits within the stage. In the surrounding points you can see what it is. It's literally like a stage where the audience sees this window and what's apart is at the wings of the stage. Then similarly, I made the elephant walk into the stage and then offstage. And that was the result. 6. Procreate Dreams: Animation Fish: For this version, I created three layers, the fish, a little texture representing the ocean, and a background. This time it's three layers, not two, or not just one. On Procreate Dreams, I chose a square mode. I created a two window, and I dragged the background first, then I dragged the waves pattern. I changed the blending mode to soft light. I moved the fish out of the frame offstage pressed the record, brought the fish back. However, because I went too fast, it only recorded it up to halfway. Just as an experiment, I went half, and then I went back, and then again I swam. This is just for teaching and for experimenting and playing. Then what I did was I created a duplicate of the fish and I made it smaller to have other fish in the sea. Something to be careful about is when you're resizing, sometimes it warps. So remember the double tap is always that for undoing. Now I wanted the small fish to also swim with the big fish. What I did was I went to the front of the timeline and I created a path for all the fish to join the big fish. Again, as you see the fish are offstage. I'm creating tracking for one fish, then clicking the timeline above. Then again creating another tracking for another fish separately. And then finally, the third fish joins the gang of fish. As you see the fish are offstage. They come on the stage and then they come back. This is a little bit more complicated than the other ones, but this is also to show you that there's so much more you can do than just appear and disappear in the timeline. You can also move your layers to be in front and behind. I moved the big fish to be on the top layer because I wanted the small fish to be behind the big fish. So after creating a path for the fish, when you want to export it, you go to Share, And you click on Video, and it automatically exports it. And that's my final video. 7. Procreate Dreams: Things to Consider: So one of the things that I realized was that when the files are too big, sometimes there's a line that comes across your animation. The simple solution to that was replace the background, but there are possibilities of those lines coming. 10. Bonus : Procreate Dreams with Video Leap: So the nice thing about procreate dreams is that it works very well with other apps. So I decided to use it with Video Leap, and I was pretty happy with the result. 12. Procreate Dreams: Thank you : I really wish you all the best in your journey as an artist. Even though this course is a very simple look at procreate dreams, do check out the other classes on skill share, They are fantastic. Procreate Dreams is going to change the face of animation. And it's really cool that you've stuck with me in this class to learn the basics of it. I hope this helps you enhance your journey as an artist in animation using Procreate dreams. Thanks for joining me. I will catch you in the next class. Bye.