Master 2D Animation in Procreate Dreams: Basics for Digital Art

Overview

“In this unit, I’ll teach you how to create engaging environments for your animations. We’ll look at how to design backgrounds and set up layers for depth and movement. By the end, you’ll have a solid background ready for use in your animation, with elements that complement your characters.”

In this video lesson Brookes Eggleston addresses the topic: Environmental Art and Backgrounds, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Planning Our Animation. Storyboarding and character design for animation..

Partial transcription of the video

“So now what we can do is start to bring our storyboard into Procreate Dreams and block out the timing of our animation. Plus it's going to give us a guide to planning certain elements of the animation. So let's pop up Procreate Dreams next to Procreate again. And what we'll do is open our Layers tab and tap the layer for our first frame of the storyboard and bring it in there. So what you'll see happen is this is now the entire length of our animation. And I actually think that what we'll do is come into Properties, hit the Duration here, and maybe we'll make it more like 20 seconds long, g...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: Planning Our Animation

• Level: Beginner
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• 9 students
• 4 units
• 4 lessons (35m)