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!
A cropped screenshot of a tweet by im a squid kid @/im_a_squid_kid with a reply by Technoblade @/Technothepig.
Squid’s tweet reads “Three years ago today, my life changed. Thank you Technoblade for the memories and opportunities this made for me, I wish you were here.” Attached is a cropped screenshot of Techno’s “Skyblock: The Great Potato War” video, showing that it has turned 3 years old.
Techno’s reply reads “"While we were enemies, I still respect Squid Kid. I understand now that it is only with a worthy rival that one can reach their fullest potential."”
im making a lego technoblade build and need some advice
so i have a wilbur minifig in thw build but i think i should replace it with someone else but i dont know who
the people i have rn are techno, the official techno minifig, ranboo, tommy, phil, technodad, irl techno, squid kid, dream (also considering replacing/removing him), and skeppy
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They’ve both grown up so much since they last saw each other.
Leaving the WASP’s wasn’t easy; watching him go was harder. They are both so loyal, unable to pull away from the families and soil that raised them. Gordon to his brothers; Marina to the people who saved her.
But one yellow squid and one blue fish always find a way back to one another, colliding in a perfect dance like two currents of the same sea. They’re just friends; close friends even after so many years. Sometimes…just sometimes, when the situation is perfectly ripe…they are more.
But, it never really mattered what they were or were not in the end. They didn’t care much either way.
Marina and Gordon are two kindred spirits singing the same ocean song; twin ships passing calmly in the night. One exists to balance the other, despite their standing on opposite shores.
Marina and Gordon are friends. Just friends. But both can’t help but wonder what it would’ve been like if they had just stayed fearless…instead of letting the other sail away.