Designed for touch, the new app takes full advantage of Apple silicon, unlocking accessible, robust, and powerful tools and workflow.
Procreate has announced the launch of Procreate Dreams, a new animation app for iPad designed for the next generation of storytellers. Procreate Dreams will be released globally November 22, joining Procreate, the best-selling paid iPad app for over 6 years.
The new app promises to unlock the world of 2D animation through accessible, robust, and powerful features. Designed for touch, Procreate Dreams introduces speedy workflows and intuitive tools even novices can easily use. Artists and animators can simply and spontaneously direct how the animation should feel with new tools such as ‘Performing,’ which uses gestures to automatically add keyframes as the tool records the actions. ‘Performing’ brings work to life before the creator's eyes in real time, with no animation experience needed.
The Multi-touch ‘Timeline’ is at the core of Procreate Dreams, making it easy to navigate, organize, and edit projects. For the first time creatives can seamlessly mix drawing, cel animation, keyframing, video editing, and compositing, all with fluid gestures that keep artists focused on creating faster than with a mouse and keyboard. Draw on the timeline with Apple Pencil to quickly select content, tracks, or keyframes, then edit them all at once. Group drawings, move tracks, retime content, adjust keyframes and much more.
From the creators of the two-time Apple Design Award-winning Procreate, Procreate Dreams takes full advantage of Apple silicon. Procreate's next-generation painting and compositing engine supercharges the painting experience, and now creatives can work on projects with resolutions up to 1 million by 1 million pixels, and more layers than they'll ever need. The app supports all Procreate's brushes, which are optimized for the precision and low latency of Apple Pencil.
‘Flipbook,’ an homage to traditional animation, transforms the user interface into a focused format while providing familiarity with Animation Assist in Procreate's first app, enabling creation of short looping GIFs, complex character animation, and more. With GPU acceleration built on Metal and powered by Apple silicon, creatives can now instantly play their project as they make edits. Procreate Dreams also introduces a new audio engine to enable voice overs, atmospheric music, and sound effects.
Procreate CEO James Cuda comments, "Today is a major milestone for Procreate, and for the animation industry. Our team has worked for over 5 years to produce an animation product that is extraordinarily approachable and exceptionally powerful. Later this year, we're helping to unlock the creative potential within all of us and giving a voice to storytellers everywhere."
Procreate Dreams will be released on November 22, 2023 and will be available on the App Store for a single-time purchase of $19.99 USD. No subscriptions.
Source: Procreate
Journalist, antique shop owner, aspiring gemologist—L'Wren brings a diverse perspective to animation, where every frame reflects her varied passions.
