And here it is! My first fully completed Procreate Dreams animation. I used audio from one of Technoblade’s more famous rants during his Potato War series. I love Technoblade and miss him every day, so I hope that I was able to capture the magic of his energy in my animation.
I animated the roughs and drew the backgrounds in Procreate, but then I imported that into Dreams to do all the cleanup. It runs at 24 fps, but there’s a lot of variations to spice it up in there.
I wanted to really challenge myself so there’s a LOT going on in this short 9 second clip. There’s a camera move with multiple layers to achieve a subtle parallax scroll, there’s two lighting changes with one being a completely animated shadow layer, and there’s a warp effect on the curtains for when it opens and closes.
There’s still a lot that could be cleaned up. Some of the linework is a little more jittery than I would prefer, and the coloring process was awful. Every color was its own separate layer, which was exhausting to do. I really hope i can figure out a faster and easier way to do the coloring process because that took me over a week to complete! Yikes!
Overall I’m extremely proud of my work here. I’ve been working on this 9 second clip since Dreams released and I really wanted to showcase to everyone just how powerful Dreams is. I know a lot of people were complaining about it when it released and I wanted to do something to help reorient people’s expectations. I genuinely cannot believe that I did all of this on my iPad!
If anyone has any questions or would like to see a breakdown of this animation, please feel free to contact me!
Here is the animation James made for a workshop he did for the Nemo Academy in Florence. We had a great time there with Genndy Tartakovsky and his lovely wife. Genndy did a great workshop on story. Everyone at the Nemoland event was so welcoming, what a wonderful experience.💕
(He is basically saying: ‘Check it out, movable cartilage! Bendable! Find two ears more beautiful than these and I’ll leave.’)
This is a beautiful pencil test by my friend Tina Nawrocki, you might know her from her work on the ‘Cuphead’ game. She is making a hand drawn animated short about a Polish mermaid called ‘Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid’. Hand drawn animation is very important to me - nothing else seems as magical as drawings that come to life! If you love hand drawn animation as much as I do, please consider supporting her crowdfunding campaign. Time is running out!
This is my fourth completed animation cycle and I thought it would be fun to have a go at a different angle and a different type of horse. I used pencil and black calligraphy ink like last time. I know it is still choppy and hasn't got much "bounce" in the stride, but I'm trying to get better!
so apparently I missed the 10-year anniversary of Welcome to Hell on June 5th???
Thinking about doing a "Happy Late Anniversary" stream with the voice actors, would you guys be into that?
In the meantime, uhhh... here's a gif of a shot from the upcoming W2H2!
I forgot to upload this pass here! Worked on this for a whirlwind 2 weeks, then it was the holidays, and I haven't touched it since😅
I'd like to continue to polish this - tighten up gideon, and take a brand new run at harrowharks focal length change, at rhe start, finesse the cam MUCH more. But Im busy working nearly 3 jobs! So maybe later
Here is the official trailer for a short that James and I worked on earlier this year. It was a genuine pleasure to work on this project. There are a couple of the scenes we did in the trailer, can you guess which ones? :)