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Found this video of Alex Kunchevsky animating a butterfly in Dreams. If this is how the process actually works, then I could see Dreams being very popular. Simple and intuitive.

https://twitter.com/kunchevsky/status/1697439424311853252

Of course, I could also see edge cases where the simple & intuitive get in the way of what the artist actually wants to do. Will be interesting to see how it pans out in practice.

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Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is it determining how to color the inverse side of the wings of the butterfly in the animation? Did he keyframe that in and exclude it from the animation?

Or is the app using vision models to infer that he is trying to animate wings specifically and just assume the perspective needed and do the coloring on the opposite side for him?

From a technical standpoint the ladder would be very cool, but I could see how it could be troublesome for artists trying to do "real animation".

1) That's not Dreams, that's original Procreate's animation tools

2) The video is cutting out the drawing of other frames after the first of each layer.

This is done in procreate- not dreams. I think there are just a big number of steps skipped in that video.

I don't think that's Dreams..

That's just the basic animation flow in Procreate (frame by frame).

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