Procreate Dreams, Is It Good?

WE NEED LASSO TOOL RIGHT NOW

I NEVER NEW REFERENCE AND ALPHA LOCK WORKED LIKE THAT AND IVE BEEN USEING PROCREATE FOR YEARS OMG

Dam this app is janky haha, I did not know there were so many issues

i feel like theres afew things you forgot to mention, so ima list em off here.

also these are problems i had when using them, so i dont know if anyone has problems with them, so yeah-

anyways-

first it that zooming in and out of your drawing, also undos, because, they both use two fingers to move, and undo.

no brush cursor (i got very used to it, when using just procreate, and i would like to beable to enable it on procreate dreams.

also that a lot of the buttons are in different spots, like the way to get out of your animation, isn't at the top corner, but instead beside the name of the animation. and also there being no lasso tool, because i keep on tapping where it is on procreate, just for nothing to happen, making me annoyed, that i cant use the lasso tool.

and the fact that if you want to turn your drawing layer around (or well, track.), you have to like- go to move and scale, and you have to tap on one of the corners, just to turn the thing around. like- i had to look up a damn tutorial up, just to know how to turn something. like yeah- its pretty annoying, not actually just being able to automatically see the way to turn something, but instead having to tap something, just to see it.


one more thing, is that, when you add a video to an animation, you dont have the option to just- add the sound, and not the video.


other than all that, i still think it's decent, and the way to easily animate some stuff, is like cutecut and capcut, and the fact that you only have to buy it once just to use it is nice, so thats nice.

So odd that whilst OG Procreate was championed for how intuitive it’s interface was, Dreams requires you to read its handbook to make sense it’s bizarre workflow.

I’m pretty sure Procreate built it to be their premier pro, so you would start in Procreate create your original scene and then import that scene into procreate dreams. so procreate is more composing tool than an actual nitpicky development for your animation tool. pretty much like building a booklet in Adobe you make your ad and images in Photoshop and illustrator, then composite them into the booklet in indesign. Not a one app for everything app

I heard Toon Squid is not only cheaper, it has better animation tools in there as well compared to Procreate Dreams. Just wanted to put this comment if anyone wants a different animation app.

THERE IS NO DARN LASSO TOOL???? THATS LIKE THE BARE BASICS OF DIGITAL ART

procreate dreams: all the features you don’t need, none of the features you do.

I just wish it had every tool procreate does, the lack of a lasso sucks SO hard. It’s not super intuitive to use either, everything being a random gesture that is not shown to you kinda sucks. I have huge lag issues with the color fill and it bothers me so bad. I really hope they improve the app since I can’t afford to get anything else currently.

I don’t know why they didn’t just expand on the normal animation feature on procreate 😭
I thought the point of this was to have the same features.
Being able to liquefy and warp would make the animating so much easier?
I also thought that the innovation of this app was that you could draw and then animate individual things like “rigging” easily and have multiple things animated on different layers/tracks, but atm it’s all so confusing and fiddly

This is the first review ive seen that isnt glazing it like its the best app in existence. the same is with procreate in general. it heavily lacks so many features. but its talked about like its the best app in existence

Goofy ahh IOS software

i have 0 faith in this app

Still impossible flip horizontally

the lack of a lasso tool and the inability to copy and paste keyframes makes me so disappointed. toonsquid is so much better for half the price lmfao

as someone who has BAREY used opentoonz and pivot animator

this still sounds better than what i am currently using
i guess ime will tell if its better or not :)

I've been addicted to this channel for a while now

My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t feel that natural to draw?
Idk how to explain it but most digital art software just feels off and kinda robotic to draw with, I love procreate so much cause it’s the only art program I’ve tried that feels so natural to draw with to me
But that robotic clunkyness is felt HARD in dreams

NO ALPHA LOCK ?? not buying this. i hate clipping masks

F u you say flipaclip app is crap😡

Can you please update if it changed or not? I’m new to animation and i want to buy it but is it worth it?

Does anyone else have issues figuring out the app in general? Like everything time i use it i end up crying (no joke) 😭

Callipeg is wayyyyy better. Just use that instead

we still dont have the lasso tool yet tho

It was a useful lecture for me. Have a nice weekend 💟💟🐬

I personally use macromedia flash 8 but I am very glad that procreate dreams is out because I do not want Adobe to have a stranglehold on the market. So I hope it gets good.

I feel so stupid that Im watching this video right now...

So thankful i watched this video first wowww

I really appreciate your review on this. I just got dreams after using regular procreate for a few months and wanted to see how the animation tool was. Your review hit every nail on the head from my experience these past few weeks. Thanks for doing your due diligence!! 💜

Ty

For the select tool, you can just export the drawing to procreate and edit then export it back
That’s like a 1min of inconvenience but at least you can edit your drawing well

the resolution variation being an intended feature is so fucking stupid like that just completely turned me off from buying. if they fix it and add in all the standard procreate features in a future update i wouldn’t mind the $20 price tag but its kind of a POS atm

Is there any way to create a perfect circle or line like in procreate? I tried but couldnt figure it out. Maybe I´m just stupid but I miss it so much :(

I feel soooo seen!😭I kinda wish I would have seen this vid before buying. I recently tried out the app for my latest video and felt like I was going crazy it made the process not as fun and to take longer than need be. The lack of the lasso tool shocked me to my core lol and the lagging became too much. I wanted to talk about it but I was thinking that maybe the app wasn't compatible with my older Ipad or as a newbie in the animation realm I was committing a lot of user error. All the points you made I completely agree with and experienced first hand - I hope they take them into consideration for future updates. Thank you for making this video - It was very thoughtful and thorough!! 💗

The lack of lasso encourages me not to copy paste . There’s ways around it really.
I know I’ve created a strategy that’s worked for me 😊 I hope that they update these problems. It feels like having to figure out a math equation.

I hate it so much

saying flipaclip is kinda wild. its actually a good animating app as if toon squid was, because its easier to fuction but if you actually want a long and detailed animation, toon is better.

This is 7 months ago... AND WE DONT HAVE A LASSO TOOL YET

me chillen with toonsquid 😎😎🦑

Could you review ibisPaint x animation feature

7 months later and I used dreams for the first time yesterday. They still haven’t fixed any of these problems-

one year later.. i never done anything with it :( dont know when to draw and when to animate, due to switch between Dreams and normal Procreate app. i just stayed at just drawing even tho my dream is it to animate and tell stories.

Bro this makes SFM look more of a professional program, and even that has a lasso tool smh

Wow. this program is rushed garbage

Also, I find it super hard to move several frames at once. Like if you want to extend a frame, but it’s smooshed inbetween 2 other frames, you have to add frames via the flipbook section and then delete those frames to extend the frame you wanted to extend! It’s super tedious and annoying! Really wish I bought Toon Sqiud instead of jumping on the hype train 😭