#runes rambles
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something about comfort, blue and orange, and new perspectives
#runes rambles#etho#ethoslab#hermitcraft#can you tell i care about ethos builds a lot#maybe making a post like this more than twice ruins the Vibe but. i just love walking around hc and the lp#i should really go to more locations but my laptop yells#anyway. heres this post with hc ones now#idk what it is about the monstrosity that Gets me#maybe its bc s7 was when i started watching etho regularly.#its just. it holds such a place in my heart#it feels so small walking though it but. god. i love it so so much#it was my laptop lockscreen for the longest time. the hallways of it#(its the youve been ethod lake now)#i really like the windmill through the trees screenshot. its where the 'perspective' thoughts came from#the guts of the monstrosity inspired that too#anyway. etho <3
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still haven't watched ahsoka but ive seen all the gifs and im obsessed with this one and the way anakin stalks with his lightsaber. the angle and the menacing vibe is awesome
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-Full Procreate Dreams review-
firstly, i am by no means an animator, i’ve done a few short animations but nothing big or frequent, so if you don’t think i have the authority to judge an animation based app, then that’s totally fine
(also i’m sorry it’s super long, i added a TLDR as compensation)
outline:
🔺Overview of Procreate Dreams
i will judge it on:
🔺Bare minimum (does it do the bare minimum as an animation app)
🔺Features (are the features it has good, are there enough, does it need any more, etc.)
🔺User-friendliness (can it be easily understood without using tutorials)
🔺Functionality (do the features function, in its current state are there any frequent glitches or errors)
🔺Money worth (is it worth the $20 USD spent on it)
🔺Final conclusion
🔺TLDR
review under cut:
-Overview of Procreate Dreams-
The UI is similar to Procreate but not exactly the same
once you click + to make a canvas you get this screen showing various presets of canvas sizes (if you press the … you can choose frame rate, a note to add is that you can’t choose the exact number, only from presets, and the lowest is 12 fps)
this is the main workspace UI with the animation timeline down at bottom and drawing on top
the drawing part works roughly the same as procreate (if you haven’t used procreate, well uh L i don’t have time to do an overview of that too) but some notable absences are no brush editing, no transform tool, no select tool, no flip canvas tool, and no liquify tool
the app is based primarily in gesture controls, so much so that there isn’t even an undo or redo button, to undo you have to click with 2 fingers and redo is click with 3 fingers
it also has 2 main forms of animation, one in which it favors
frame by frame, or as procreate dreams calls it “flipbook” and animation mainly by editing parts of existing art (such as tweening, blurring, warping, etc.)
this is what the flipbook looks like, you cannot x out of the flipbook without it going back to the split timeline/drawing screen (previous screenshot) you can move the flipbook around the screen but cannot enlarge or shrink it
in the alternative animation style you can set key frames and click and hold to open easing options, the default is ease in & out
along with key frames for move and scale, there’s also distort, warp, opacity, gaussian blur, noise, sharpen, and HSB (adjustment of hue, value, and saturation)
general notes:
procreate dreams has a “perform” button, which basically means that if you click it and press play, you can move a part of a drawing (or multiple parts if you select multiple or put them in a group on the timeline) and it will record how you move it and automatically add the keyframes which you can adjust afterward
you can adjust the canvas size by typing the exact pixel size, but unlike procreate it does not allow for as large of a size (it couldn’t reach 2000x2000)
-Bare minimum-
can you actually use it to animate??
i would say absolute bare minimum for frame by frame is have onion skins, able to choose fps, have it flip through the frames so it’s you know like an actual animation, have functioning, and preferably have layers
and bare minimum for the other style is have basic scaling options, have functioning export, and tweening with optional easing
procreate dreams passes bare minimum ✅ (wow what an accomplishment /s)
-Features-
it has the basic features such as onion skins, keyframes, etc.
it does allow for import of video, audio, photo, and text
the “perform” feature (explained in overview) is unique to procreate dreams from what i know
oddly enough the foreground and background feature that was in procreate animation was not added to procreate dreams
clipping mask, layer mask, and blending modes are there
BUT there is an extreme lacking of certain vital features
in frame by frame animation you can use many layers, but cannot re order them, and re ordering the actual frames is possible but rather difficult and i’m not actually sure how to do it intentionally and deleting frames is also a nuisance in the same way
you can also not re arrange the gallery images, i’m guessing this is because unlike procreate which stores art in the app, procreate dreams stores it in the files
there is no select tool and transform can only be done in the timeline which is just inconvenient, but to do any rotation you have to manually type a number of degrees it should rotate, you CANNOT rotate it normally
there is no physical undo/redo button, only the gesture for it, there is no brush editing, there is no physical import button for brushes (you can still import brushes but it is less convenient)
original procreate had a feature to hold down the pen after drawing a shape, and it would automatically make the shape but perfect and you could adjust points of it, procreate dreams does not have this
(there are of course more features but these are the major things i thought should be mentioned)
in features, procreate dreams is lacking, it has many good features but really important ones are missing ❌
-User-Friendliness-
i am a bit biased in this category because the UI and way it functions is many times very similar to procreate which i have been using for 4 years so take what i say here with a grain of salt
most everything in the app i figured out on my own without tutorials, and i did it rather quickly
i find it to be very easy to understand even for someone who has never seen the app ✅
-Functionality-
most of the features do function, but there are a few issues i should mention
occasionally on the gallery screen it just froze, but closing and opening the app again fixed it, and that didnt happen much
the brushes also look a bit more pixelated and not as smooth as procreate’s(??)
the import video and audio feature issues however, did happen much
i don’t know if this would be an issue for a newer ipad but any time i tried importing a video (even as short as 2 seconds) it said “this video exceeds your device’s capabilities” or if i tried importing too long a video it just crashed
purely audio files are a similar issue, except it COULD import a 2 second audio, but crashed at a 30 second one
in its current state, functionality is mostly passing, but audio is oftentimes such an important part of animation that i cannot truthfully give this a pass, but i won’t give it a fail either ❓
-Money worth-
in terms of money,
No.
$20 is an outrageous amount for an app that fails to import longer than a 2 second audio, having no select tool, an annoying transform tool, and many other missing features that even FLIPACLIP can do without even paying ❌
-Final conclusion-
i have full faith in the procreate team, i truly believe they can make this an absolutely amazing app, but right now, i would highly advise against buying it
i was really excited for it because i’ve been a loyal procreate fan for 4 years and go on about how amazing procreate is, but this is just disappointing
i will update you all on if it receives any major updates that fixes or adds features, until then, my conclusion is that procreate dreams is not currently worth your money ❌
-TLDR-
Procreate Dreams is missing a lot of really important features like a select tool, rotation, and the transform tool which it has but is inconvenient to use, and the audio import barely even works
i have full hope that the procreate dreams devs can and will fix it and make it a great app, but as it is now, you’d have better luck using flipaclip for free
it is actually painful for me to say that you shouldn’t get procreate dreams cause i love procreate so much, but i know that this is just BAD
go buy procreate instead, i have literally no complaints about that one it’s the best and i love it
also i’ve got art going up tomorrow!! so you get that at least
-updates-
-clipping mask added
-custom frame rates added
-drag and drop layer organization added
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Been working on this the past few days
@akanemnon Twin Runes Frisk!
Been a fun challenge trying to model them (worst part was the cape).
They'll soon be turned into publicly available VRChat avatars! (I'll make a post when they're available)
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I haven’t stopped thinking about Azzy in the background of this Twin Runes art by @akanemnon
#smolldust#smolldust rambles#rambling#Maybe I’m just crazy and obsessed with Asriel who knows#utdr#Undertale#deltarune#twin runes#Is this Deltarune azzy’s dark world form or Undertale flowey/azzy’s dark world form?#Idk I’ll will just patiently wait and see
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A fast food job sure is Job
#runes rambles#runes job#<block that tag to avoif my work post#wow wild i have a job i can talk about
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Sharing my short Twitter rant for all my fellow Rune Factory fan besties on here. Sick of people acting like Stardew is the only real farming sim out there considering how clearly it's built on the farming sims that came before it.
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OH MY GOD I MIGHT BE ONTO SOMETHING WITH THE BLUE LIGHTS IN THAT ONE CONCEPT ART IMAGE THAT NOBODY RLLY TALKS ABOUT
WE CAN CLEARLY SEE HERE THAT THE LIGHT IS IN FACT BLUE.
WHAT OTHER LIGHTS ARE BLUE?
THE ONES HERE. They look like they're the same shade of blue too. The claw that we can see in this image and in the thumbnail of episode 6 also look vaguely similar to the claw seen to the left of uzi in this concept art - its Also scratching into a wall like the claw in the image, and both only having three claws.
for reference, the clawed hand we see in episode two has four fingers, its just hard to see the fourth as its always grabbing something, so it isn't that. What if this concept art IS actually of the beast we're gonna see in this episode? I honestly wouldn't be surprised.
By then it was already established that Disassembly Drones would have white metal, so why make a creature/eldritch J concept art that would be darker grey/black in color? With BLUE lights?
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Twin Runes Undyne sprites!!
I couldn't decide between Papyrus and Undyne so I asked my dad (who doesn't know Undertale very well) "Skeleton or fish lady" without context and the conversation basically went like this
"Skeleton or fish lady."
"...What????"
"You heard me. Skeleton or fish lady??"
"Uhh fish lady?? I'm curious is this a mermaid?"
"Nah it's a water nymph with a spear. Think the Triton race from dnd."
"Ohhh, okay."
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Just got Rune Factory 3 Special and man, I forgot just how pretty the old RF games are. I love Rune Factory 5, but sometimes the overworld/buildings/dungeons are just… bland. Devoid of character. So much stuff is just copy-pasted assets to fill in space, whereas RF1-4 all have this vibrancy and detail I really missed. If the clock wasn’t ticking so fast, I could just wander and stare at the flowers all day.
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reading the republic commando books is sooo. its such a breath of fresh air. idk why. but just reading about the clones and having them have culture and worries like the commandos do is so Good. i love when authors care about the characters they're writing and give them love
#runes rambles#i mean like LOTS of sw authors DO care about what they write and how they write the characters#but theres something about rc specifically. idk what it is#i just love it#republic commando#star wars
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shoutout to that time i genuinely thought the gay MLM flag was the “Shinsexual” flag
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I haven't even started playing the full version of Silent Hope and I'm already finding some tasty bits of lore
So big thing I noticed when they uploaded the opening animation for Silent Hope a couple of months ago was the seven colored lights that fly out of the Abyss. Within the lore of the game, these lights are what guide the seven protagonists to the Princess and the mouth of Abyss: however, what I noticed is that each of those seven lights correspond to the seven magic elements within the world of Rune Factory. Fast forward to today, when I got my copy of the Day One Edition that comes with the artbook and a physical copy of the soundtrack, and I was delighted to discover that the lights do have significant meaning based on their color, though not in terms of elemental affinity.
Copies of Silent Hope come with a little booklet that is more or less a slightly expanded version of the game's prologue, and it features the seven colored lights from the Abyss actively seeking out the seven heroes based on particular qualities that they have as people. When the lights find their "avatar," the light disappears into their heart and guides them to the Abyss. The lights and their associations are as follows:
The yellow light, associated with Wanderer, represents hope.
The orange light, associated with Warrior, represents determination.
The purple light, associated with Rogue, represents justice.
The blue light, associated with Archer, represents kindness.
The pink light, associated with Farmer, represents love.
The red light, associated with Fighter, represents passion.
The green light, associated with Caster, represents knowledge.
Again though, I find it interesting that the colors of the lights correspond to the seven magic elements and when you combine the elements with the above meanings based on their associated light's color, magic within the world of Rune Factory suddenly becomes a lot deeper in terms of characterization. The chart basically looks like this
Orange = Earth = Determination
Red = Fire = Passion
Green = Wind = Knowledge
Blue = Water = Kindness
Yellow = Light = Hope
Purple = Dark = Justice
Pink = Love = Love
So, you know, next time you're playing any Rune Factory game that allows you to take villagers out into combat and the ones you bring with you happen to know some elemental spells, definitely take a moment to consider why they might be using those spells based on the above meanings. It might make even more sense now than it did before.
#rune factory#silent hope#rune factory 3#rf3#rune factory 4#rf4#rune factory 5#rf5#Those are all the games that let you bring villagers with you right?#All right enough rambling#TIME TO PUNCH SOME MONSTERS
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“amber is childish” “amber acts like shes 10” yall have clearly never watched her proposal event bc that 10 year old has clinical depression and suicidal tendencies and might unironically be one of the most emotionally mature out of all the marriage candidates in the entire game
#WHAT is wrong with her oh my god#i just rewatched thsi event today bc i forgot what happened in it i just knew it was Fucked#AND IM SO???!??! WHAT????!????#rf4#rune factory 4#rf4 amber#pansy rambling again#bokumono#bokujou monogatari#rune factory#rune factory 4 special#rf4 special
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Therapy is NOT enough. I need princess tutu to ask me to dance with her.
#rune rambles#princess tutu#anime#princess tutu anime#PLEASE cure me with ballet#ive cried multiple times#its really feel good#idk healthy emotional processing#but like#star crossed lovers#bah#i cry 4 her#i cry 4 me#this is art idkdik#1k
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