Procreate Dreams 4+

Cool app lacking features

I’ve been using procreate for a long time and when I heard about this app I was excited.
I’ve been wanting to be an animator so I was really happy. I’m still learning and honestly don’t know a lot so maybe some stuff wasn’t added for a reason.

The first major issue I have is for what I know I can’t change the pen pressure sensitivity. I went into preferences and in procreate you can change stuff like motion stabilising, Pen sensitivity but that stuff wasn’t there apart from one thing I wanted to change which was “Draw with finger”.
Another thing that I realised is you can’t hold the pen down to make a shape, or select things. Everything that used to be in the top left is gone, unless they’re in different places and Im blind, i mean i’m wearing glasses totally possible 😂

Ofc the app is new so I expect a lot is probably gonna change and Im sure a lot more features will be added in the future.
Im excited to see what else will be added.
(Also sorry if this is a second review my last one randomly disappeared and I have no idea where it went)

App has a lot of potentials but still in a buggy state

I managed to animate with the app but in a hacky way. I would say that it is decent but might need to wait for few updates for it to show its full potentials..

First of, keyframing was a bit messy, there are times I couldn’t add a keyframe. Sometimes i will delete but it will revert back by itself. There are times there will be 2 layers of keyframing in a track which confused me a lot and it was messing around with my workflow.

Second, some parts are not very user friendly. Adding the onion skin setting on the timeframe doesnt even make sense. Also for some reason it is not working either.

Third, undo and redo button is missing, glad i know what is the shortcut for undo from procreate but it is a pain not having the redo button

Fourth, you guys added the drawing function, at least add the picker? But i am guessing it may be not part of mvp and thinking that users will still use procreate to draw

Fifth, i hate how the timeline zoom in and out. It would be great if there is a way to lock it because you can easily get lost when it zooms in.

Sixth, you cannot export to a gif file which is weird not to have for an animation app

I know there are lots of negative on first release but if there will be updates regarding on addressing these then that would be great. Thanks for making this app

Blurry brush

No lasso or liquify tool, also in a previous review I said when you paint while zoomed out the brush strokes are blurry, you guys said it’s expected but in procreate this doesn’t happen, let me elaborate, when you zoom out in procreate and your canvas gets smaller, brush strokes you do also are smaller relative to how far you’ve zoomed out making it so that if you make a brush stroke when zoomed in or zoomed out they are both the same size because the brush stroke changes size relative to the canvas changing size, now in dreams, it doesn’t get bigger or smaller depending on how zoomed in or out your canvas is, as a result the brush strokes get bigger and blurrier relative to the size they are supposed to be the more you zoom out, they also get smaller the more zoomed in you are, this shouldn’t be expected since this doesn’t happen in procreate, the only thing that should affect the size is changing the brush stroke size

Developer Response ,

Edited 11/01/2024 - Hey there - Thank you for providing more information. Selections for Draw & Paint is being worked on at the moment and we are trying to get it to our users as soon as we can. As for the liquify tool, it has been listed as a requested feature and we have added your support load to it. In terms of the issue with brush resolution, we have had a further look into this issue and noticed that there are indeed some consistency issues when using Dynamic Brush Scaling, in comparison to how it behaves in Procreate. We are and will continue to work hard on investigating and bringing a fix for it. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and hope to bring you a better experience in the future. 🙏

27/12/2023 - Hi there - This is expected behaviour due to how the brush strokes are rendered at different zoom levels. You can learn more about this at our Help Centre: help.procreate.com/articles/zleqxr