How cool is this! I love the Procreate Dreams course you offered and what a great deal. If anyone else reads this, I highly recommend the course. Thank you Green Room Media for making learning fun and affordable. 💕💕💕
Always bring something new to learn! I search for Procreate Dreams tutorials every day but none are as good as this channel. I hope you won't stop giving great tutorials!
Very helpful, thank you. I like learning an effect that seems more advanced, like this one, that I can then apply to my animations. I'm tired of "here's how to create a file ... the onion skin is behind the timeline," etc. The skill you are teaching is better than the basics over and over by everyone else.
Thanks so much! Yeah, totally agree - it’s a fine line between covering the same ground over and over, or taking at least some of the basics as read and moving onto more practical / complex techniques! I’ll be putting up a mix of short and long format content on Dreams over the next while and will 100% be listening out for feedback from you guys for topics / levels of difficulty / length of tutorials etc!
Great tutorial. I’m not an artist but I want to focus on kinetic typography using procreate dreams. I’ve been looking for an in depth tutorial for kinetic typography using procreate dreams. I don’t know if you covered that in your course material.
Tony! Great tutorial. I’m telling you, we’re in the same wave length. I was trying to imagine a similar process to reveal text and this gives me a great start! Thanks. I’m also wondering how to warp an item and return it to the original shape. Any ideas? Thanks for the content.
Very good - yeah the idea was to just give a quick taste of what you can do with layer masks - honestly, you can go very deep into this and create some fantastic animation, especially when both the mask and masked layers are animating simultaneously. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually reset warp points to their original position (without losing all keyframes) - one of my top wishes from Procreate is the ability to copy/paste keyframes (multiple at once!!). However, you can manually enter the distort values at any point - if you tap on a distort keyframe to select and then again to open it, you can enter values (which you can check from any other keyframe) - a bit tedious but the only way for now. One tip (which will either sound blindingly obvious or be a eureka moment!) - whenever I am working on any keyframing in any software and I know I will likely want to return to an initial value at some point, the first thing I do is add a second keyframe way further down the timeline before I change a single value. That way I know if I ever need it, I can just drag this "backup" keyframe back to where I need it (and create another backup if I need it again)
@@GreenRoomIreland Thanks so much. I'll give the distort a try. I've been using warp and, as far as I can tell, there's no way to enter values for those keyframes. I think I learned the backup keyframe trick from your course, if I'm not mistaken. I use it but thanks for the reminder. I appreciate reminders and potentially duplicate info sharing when I'm learning new software. Thanks for your time. I, too, look forward to Dreams upping their game.
No problem! Oh and the duplicate info is a must for permanently etching this stuff into our brains - it should all becomes as natural as breathing really quickly :)
I was actually debating putting up a tutorial on this! Wasn’t sure as it’s not the most flashy trick in the book 😂 But there are a few ways to approach it - the best results would definitely come from using some form of frame by frame animation … you could either have the word pre written and then use another track as a layer mask, where you reveal the pencil strokes frame by frame … alternatively you could create a reference layer with the final word, and then just use frame by frame to trace over it one tiny piece at a time until it’s complete (and then remove your reference layer). Let me know if that makes sense - I might do a tutorial on the three methods that spring to mind :)
Ah I get you - you want to also animate the pencil on top of the reveal of the writing too. The pencil would be on a separate track as one object - this I would 100% animate using move keyfames - set the anchor point to the tip of the pencil, perhaps start with it off screen to start, create the first keyframe then move ahead in the timeline to where the text starts to appear and move the pencil tip to match. From there, you just move ahead a few frames at a time each time matching the pencil position to the revealed text progress. You might need to change the easing so the movements don’t look too erratic. You could also try this the other way around - have a reference image of the finished writing, and animate the keyframes of the pencil moving over each stroke you’d make - it will be much easier to get the timings correct than using frame by frame too. When you have the motion finished for the pencil, then you can go back and draw in the frame by frame of the actual writing on the page, this time matching the movement of the pencil instead. Let me see if I can find time to make a tutorial on this for next week for you - it will probably make a lot more sense seeing it
Waaaaaaaaatttttt! You make it look so easy!
that's cool. thanks for tutorial and idea
How cool is this! I love the Procreate Dreams course you offered and what a great deal. If anyone else reads this, I highly recommend the course. Thank you Green Room Media for making learning fun and affordable. 💕💕💕
Thank you kindly!
Now THIS is frickin great tutorial !!!! 👌
Many thanks Inky ;) We’ll keep posting as long as you keep making those amazing urban watercolours :)
Always bring something new to learn! I search for Procreate Dreams tutorials every day but none are as good as this channel. I hope you won't stop giving great tutorials!
Aww thanks so much!! And don’t worry - plenty more to come :)
Very helpful, thank you. I like learning an effect that seems more advanced, like this one, that I can then apply to my animations. I'm tired of "here's how to create a file ... the onion skin is behind the timeline," etc. The skill you are teaching is better than the basics over and over by everyone else.
Thanks so much! Yeah, totally agree - it’s a fine line between covering the same ground over and over, or taking at least some of the basics as read and moving onto more practical / complex techniques! I’ll be putting up a mix of short and long format content on Dreams over the next while and will 100% be listening out for feedback from you guys for topics / levels of difficulty / length of tutorials etc!
Great tutorial. I’m not an artist but I want to focus on kinetic typography using procreate dreams. I’ve been looking for an in depth tutorial for kinetic typography using procreate dreams. I don’t know if you covered that in your course material.
Tony! Great tutorial. I’m telling you, we’re in the same wave length. I was trying to imagine a similar process to reveal text and this gives me a great start! Thanks.
I’m also wondering how to warp an item and return it to the original shape. Any ideas?
Thanks for the content.
Very good - yeah the idea was to just give a quick taste of what you can do with layer masks - honestly, you can go very deep into this and create some fantastic animation, especially when both the mask and masked layers are animating simultaneously.
At the moment, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually reset warp points to their original position (without losing all keyframes) - one of my top wishes from Procreate is the ability to copy/paste keyframes (multiple at once!!). However, you can manually enter the distort values at any point - if you tap on a distort keyframe to select and then again to open it, you can enter values (which you can check from any other keyframe) - a bit tedious but the only way for now.
One tip (which will either sound blindingly obvious or be a eureka moment!) - whenever I am working on any keyframing in any software and I know I will likely want to return to an initial value at some point, the first thing I do is add a second keyframe way further down the timeline before I change a single value. That way I know if I ever need it, I can just drag this "backup" keyframe back to where I need it (and create another backup if I need it again)
@@GreenRoomIreland Thanks so much. I'll give the distort a try. I've been using warp and, as far as I can tell, there's no way to enter values for those keyframes. I think I learned the backup keyframe trick from your course, if I'm not mistaken. I use it but thanks for the reminder. I appreciate reminders and potentially duplicate info sharing when I'm learning new software.
Thanks for your time. I, too, look forward to Dreams upping their game.
No problem! Oh and the duplicate info is a must for permanently etching this stuff into our brains - it should all becomes as natural as breathing really quickly :)
@@GreenRoomIreland So glad I found your course and your tutorials!
So kind, thank you :)
How could you animated a pencil writing a message to reveal the message it is writing. Hope that makes sense
I was actually debating putting up a tutorial on this! Wasn’t sure as it’s not the most flashy trick in the book 😂 But there are a few ways to approach it - the best results would definitely come from using some form of frame by frame animation … you could either have the word pre written and then use another track as a layer mask, where you reveal the pencil strokes frame by frame … alternatively you could create a reference layer with the final word, and then just use frame by frame to trace over it one tiny piece at a time until it’s complete (and then remove your reference layer). Let me know if that makes sense - I might do a tutorial on the three methods that spring to mind :)
@@GreenRoomIreland
I hear what you are saying but how do you sync the movement of the pencil to make the un viewing of the text using the frame by frame reveal
Ah I get you - you want to also animate the pencil on top of the reveal of the writing too. The pencil would be on a separate track as one object - this I would 100% animate using move keyfames - set the anchor point to the tip of the pencil, perhaps start with it off screen to start, create the first keyframe then move ahead in the timeline to where the text starts to appear and move the pencil tip to match. From there, you just move ahead a few frames at a time each time matching the pencil position to the revealed text progress. You might need to change the easing so the movements don’t look too erratic. You could also try this the other way around - have a reference image of the finished writing, and animate the keyframes of the pencil moving over each stroke you’d make - it will be much easier to get the timings correct than using frame by frame too. When you have the motion finished for the pencil, then you can go back and draw in the frame by frame of the actual writing on the page, this time matching the movement of the pencil instead. Let me see if I can find time to make a tutorial on this for next week for you - it will probably make a lot more sense seeing it
Hey Doug - we just published a new tutorial that (hopefully!) covers what you are asking about here:
ua-cam.com/video/CVpRR86zOhE/v-deo.html