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!
So, remember part one of the Potato War? Well this is part two. This is part two of the Potato War, featuring Technoblade and Squidkid.
Now, victorious from the Potato War, the Great Potato War, Technoblade sits upon his throne and laughs at Squidkid. He even got Squidkid to change the little #1 on his island to #2, 'cuz he was the second-best now, Techno was #1.
But the war was not over, for you see, currently there was no limit to how many potatoes you could farm, so he had to keep the lead, he had to stay ahead, and he would do it by any means necessary...
This is for a project but I wanted to post him since I probably won’t post the project.
I really like drawing Techno, I like adding little details and I love drawing his hair but I never do, I’m not sure why. Makes me really appreciate it when I do though :)