Procreate Announces the Launch of Groundbreaking New iPad App “Procreate Dreams”

Procreate announces the launch of Procreate Dreams, a groundbreaking new iPad app that provides groundbreaking animation tools to everyone.

The creators of Procreate, the best-selling paid iPad app for over six years, announce the launch of Procreate Dreams, a new iPad animation app

Procreate Dreams will feature a range of intuitive animation tools that both professionals and beginners will benefit from.

Procreate Dreams will be released on November 22, 2023.

Procreate Dreams is available on the App Store for $19.99 per purchase. No subscription required.

Hobart, Australia - Media OutReach - September 8, 2023 - Procreate announces the launch of Procreate Dreams, a new iPad animation app designed for the next generation of storytellers. Procreate Dreams will be released globally later this year and will join Procreate as the best-selling paid iPad app for over six years.

Procreate Dreams is an industry-changing software that promises to open up the world of animation in a way that was once thought impossible through easy-to-use, powerful and robust features . Designed for touch, Procreate Dreams introduces an incredibly fast workflow and tools so intuitive that now, anyone can animate with it. Artists and animators can easily and naturally interpret what animation should feel like with new tools like Show Recording, which uses gestures to automatically add keyframes as action is recorded. No animation production experience is required, the performance recording can present lifelike works in real time before the creator's eyes.

The multi-touch timeline is at the heart of Procreate Dreams, making it easy to navigate, organize and edit projects. For the first time, creators can seamlessly mix painting, illustration animation, keyframing, video editing, and compositing, all with fluid gesture operation—faster than a mouse and keyboard, allowing artists to focus on creating.

From the creators of Procreate, a two-time Apple Design Award winner, Procreate Dreams delivers unparalleled performance through superior innovation, taking full advantage of Apple silicon. Procreate's next-generation painting and compositing engine enhances the painting experience, now allowing creators to work on raster projects at resolutions up to 1 million x 1 million pixels and with more layers than they need. The app adapts to the most accurate and responsive Apple Pencil and supports all Procreate brushes that are loved by creators around the world.

"Today is a major milestone for Procreate and the animation industry," said James Cuda, CEO of Procreate. "Our team has worked hard for more than five years to develop an animation product that is extremely approachable and incredibly powerful. When it launches later this year , we will help unleash the creative potential within everyone and give storytellers around the world a voice."

Procreate Dreams will be released on November 22, 2023, with a single purchase price of $19.99 on the App Store. No subscription required.

Procreate Dreams Core Features Preview

Procreate Dreams has everything you need to create rich 2D animations, expressive videos, and stunning stories—and that's just the beginning.

Now, anyone can animate

Designed for novices and seasoned professionals alike, Live Recordings will forever change the way creatives animate. Creatives can animate with touch and instantly respond as the movie plays without having to set up complex keyframes and paths. Show Notes uses gestures to automatically add keyframes, while the tool records the animators' movements in real time.

A new Procreate painting experience

Procreate's next-generation painting and compositing engine gives creators a powerful painting experience. People can enjoy hundreds of stunning Procreate brushes in the newly upgraded painting engine, with a larger canvas, more layers to use, and full support for the popular digital illustration application Procreate files created in .

Redesigned timeline

The Procreate Dreams timeline is designed for animation. For the first time, creators can seamlessly mix painting, illustration animation, keyframing, video editing and compositing, all with fluid gestures, allowing artists to focus on creating. The playback pointer of the timeline is more than just a needle, it also brings an epoch-making animation experience to Procreate Dreams. Creators can dance freely across the timeline, add movements with precision, and flick their finger backwards to instantly play the video from the beginning. Use Apple Pencil to draw on the timeline to quickly select content, tracks, or keyframes and edit them all in one go. Group draws, move tracks, retime content, adjust keyframes, and more. This is much faster than editing with mouse and keyboard.

real-time rendering

No more waiting to play. From the first time you drag the preview on the timeline, users will feel the difference. Most industry professionals wait too long to generate a RAM preview every time they make a change. With the power of Apple silicon and GPU acceleration on Metal, creatives can now play back their projects instantly while editing, giving them more time for creativity.

frame-by-frame animation

Flipbook is a beautiful homage to traditional animation, transforming the user interface into a focused format while bringing the familiarity of the beloved Animation Assist feature found in Procreate's first app. It's perfect for creating looping GIF clips and complex character animations. Easily activate onion skinning at any time while drawing and animating, with options to customize color, opacity, and more for preceding and following frames. Celuloid animators can create multiple frame-by-frame animations in a single project and apply real-time dynamic effects and filters through live recording or using keyframes.

Keyframe

Quickly set the start and end points of an action. Declutter your timeline with beautiful, simplified keyframes, or tap keyframes to unleash their full power and edit every property with precision. Choose the right easing to optimize transitions every time. Real-time dynamic effects and filters provide a non-destructive workflow; once keyframes have been added, they are still fully editable. Creatives have full creative control over color changes, blur adjustments, motion adjustments, and filter effects without permanently changing their content.

Text and layout

Leverage the power of keyframes to add titles, intros, and animation annotations. Import custom fonts and adjust fonts to get the ideal look for your project.

audio and video

Import gorgeous ProRes video footage, up to 8K. Easily crop, cut, pan and zoom high-resolution video in post-production. Creatives can use the full library of Procreate brushes to easily paint on video and create annotated or rotoscoped projects. Procreate Dreams also introduces a new audio engine. Creatives can now bring characters to life with voiceovers, add ambient music, and complete projects with perfect sound.

Higher resolution and more layers than ever before

For the first time on iPad, Procreate Dreams effortlessly handles hundreds of audio tracks, millions of pixels, full creative time, and more layers than ever before. Draw, import, and create all your assets in a single project because layer limitations are a thing of the past.

futuristic file format

The new Procreate file format is ready to use. Open 1TB files instantly with no load, save or export time. Designed for iCloud sync, easy file management and backup. Permanent undo history is now saved in files, giving creators the ability to experiment and play without the risk of losing their work. This file type will be first available in Procreate Dreams and will form the basis for the next generation of Procreate products.