This was super interesting and useful! You have a really good way of explaining things, and showing what you mean! I’ve watched tons of art videos but somehow still felt that perspective and composition was elusive, but this helped! Thanks so much! 🌸

Im still waiting on that fix for the pixelation issue because wow... the 1 Million x 1 Million was more important than fixing such a crucial thing. I don't wanna give up hope just yet since they're a solid team who worked on the original, but it sucks that its taking this long to fix such a critical issue

I’m so glad you’re having a blast with ToonSquid! I hope you make more videos about the app

Dreams feels more like a video editor than an animation software, which is a shame. The most I can do is rough animation before getting impatient with the lack of features that 90% of other animation/art softwares have.

Oh that pixel zooming may be a dealbreaker for me. I do t really draw and am looking for something just to play around with but don’t want to worry about things like resolution.

Great, thanks for the awesome tutorial!

Commenting to push the algorithm!

I love this!

Great work!

Toonsquid.....💪😎

Have you tried Callipeg, its my current favorite way to animate. Though I don't like how ot organizes my files but great for frame by frame.

Also, what did you think of Ella Archangel?

OMG YAAAAAAYYYY!!! How was your experience in the app? Did you have fun? I hope you made a video dive talking of your experience. I’d love to know your thoughts ❤

Wowwwww

Honestly I don’t get why people are complaining this much, yes there are missing features but it’s still very usable. There are simple workarounds for most of the issues people bring up- for the resolution issue, just do your roughs in a lower res and then zoom into your canvas during cleanup. And the lack of a lasso tool is really not the end of the world… you can just redraw things. Ideal? Not at all. Temporary solution? Absolutely I guess I’m willing to turn a blind eye because of the many areas the app has innovated in. The stored/unlimited undos feature is CRIMINALLY underrated and has been an absolute game changer for me. Like i literally cannot go back to a program that doesn’t have this now. And of course the performing feature is incredible, works exactly as advertised and slashes animation time in half for me. I love being able to use all the gorgeous procreate brushes, canvases and palettes with no hiccups. I LOVE the grouping system and how easy it is to keyframe/mask a group in a non-destructive way. The timeline took a bit of getting used to but I’m in love with that too now. It’s so well thought out and feels really natural and easy to navigate. Plus it’s gorgeous But most of all, I’m sticking with it because of the threat it poses to the industry. Money hungry companies like ToonBoom and Adobe now have a competitor that comes at an unbelievably affordable price. While there is definitely room for improvement, I have absolutely no doubt that in a few years it will be to the animation industry what Procreate has been for illustration, and everyone will come flocking back.

Very relatable information we are making some scenes in procreate dreams as well and are wondering if you can go more in depth about what problems were arising when you were exporting and were they done in 4k background the pixelation you mentioned is something that has worried us and has made us rethink if we should just do everything in a dedicated animation software like toon boom.

I also wanted to recommend checking out “Ella Archangel” an animation by Mervin Malonzo here on KZbin. It was mainly animated in RoughAnimator, which is so cool, and the backgrounds painted in Procreate. I hope you enjoy it and feel inspired again

Yeah, I’d recommend to wait it out until they have actual features needed for frame-by-frame animation. Such features like the Zoom draw/Million pixels was so bad, and I’ve not opened nor used the app in forever. I’ll just wait till the app gets updated to a workable version. In the meantime, I’m working with Clip Studio Paint on the iPad, and it’s such a blast to animate with, tbh 😊 As for ToonSquid, it’s personally missing something that is quite important to me; I wish I could move the timeline to the top, so I can focus on animating without touching any other frames on the timeline while I work. Roughanimator has this and it’s such a lovely feature, and although RoughAnimator is missing some helpful features, it’s been nice animating in it. But I’m animating professionally with CSP in the meantime

Have you seen what can be accomplished with Dreams? It's on V1. Give it time. This is already very capable, but will become way better in the future, like Procreate.

I'm in a process of creating my first short animation as well. I'm using Procreate myself for now. Sending you love and luck as I know how hectic and time consuming it can be. <33333

Your art is so moving! I really appreciate the storytelling behind your abstract process in this video. And Fresco looks really satisfying.

What do you mean when you say your “brain broke?” In 2022. Not to get into details. If there are no words to describe it, then the visual? Do you feel sensations, emotions when you paint? Are you doing this because it’s satisfying or as an outlet? Asking for a friend..

This was made on procreate or procreate dreams? either way very dope fr

That looks cool! thanks

That is so clever, seem so obvious too. But I wouldn’t be able to come up with it lol. Nice tricks!

Great brush!

Thanks for mentioning the amount of time it takes just to plan out and compose….i too animate and can totally relate😢

That was really cool to watch! You're so thoughtful in how you create the environment to reflect the storyline.

my youngest had dyscalculia and dysgraphia!

Thanks for this. New subscriber. :)

Thanks for telling your story! When I discovered dyscalculia was a thing, it immediately clicked for me. Because of life circumstances I've ended up working in IT. I hate it but it allows me to live comfortably. I remeber my boss trying to teach me excel formulas and between the effects of anxiety/adhd/dyscalculia, all I could do is stare at the screen with its meaningless numbers and letters and desperately try to figure it out based on memory and patterns. It was so embarrassing and defeating. I'm not dumb but that kind of thing makes me feel so dumb

Wait you mean most people don't just memorize the times tables patterns... bro no wonder I was the worst in class and never got to go to the ice cream party for completing all the times tables in 3rd grade

Looks fun! Complicated but fun, fine tuning, rearranging. Seeing your attention to details coming together👌

Your story feels very reminiscent of my own. The way you describe how you view numbers feels very similar to how I do as well. I never remembered my multiplication tables and my dad always thought my teachers just "didn't drill it into my head enough," but I was one of the only kids in my class who had issues with it. I did well in every other class I had except for math. I also failed my freshman algebra class in high school and had to go to summer school. I had never had to do that before for any other class. My parents would get upset and ground me and it's like they thought I just wasn't trying hard enough, despite me making A's in almost every other class. I'm still upset that they appeared to just assume that I was lazier when it came to math and just readily accepted that I wasn't trying hard enough instead of realizing that there was a reason why I was only struggling in this one subject (and science, when it involved math) and I needed help. I'm pretty sure the only reason I graduated high school was because my math teacher my senior year liked me and didn't want to be the reason I didn't walk, so she curved my grade to the minimum passing grade (a 70). When I was in college, the algebra course I took was a self-paced program where we had to take a test at the beginning of the semester so it could place us at the level we were at and build us up to the appropriate college level algebra. I placed at a 6th grade level and there were so many basic things that I had no clue how to do. The professor told us we could always ask for help when we needed to but for me it was like... I need help with literally everything. I ended up dropping out of college, and that class was one of the main reasons. I'm currently going through a full psychological evaluation as well because I realized recently that I'm also most likely autistic and ADHD, so I will learn about the dyscalculia when I get all of those results. I guess getting a diagnosis at 29 years old is better than never! lol but it definitely is disheartening to think about how differently my life could have turned out if I had gotten the help I needed before it was too late, so I definitely relate to that.

How are schools today in detecting dyscalculia & dyslexia? I mean both the US & Canada as I'm American and I can hear her Canadian accent.

This made me emotional. Thank you so much for sharing. One of my past students very clearly has a learning disability. I hope she has the help she deserves now. Thank you for reminding me about her! I'll reach out to her parents now.

Hey thanks so much for sharing. I'm sorry to hear that many people throughout your life did not assess you or try to give you accomodations. However, I'm curious how the accommodations/help should work - suppose you are a student. Are accommodations mostly about giving students more time to complete tasks? If numbers are difficult then it might be that even having more time could be frustrating (e.g. in your measuring example, you might have difficulty holding the numbers in your head and even if you did it 10 times over, you might still make a mistake). Are there ways to "treat" discalculia, such as with certain exercises? I am basically curious what the Gr 10 math teacher did that enabled you to learn better, and how society can better support people like you.

well i might have dyscalculia too i guess. im so so terrible at math, always has been, i had to cheat so much just to pass, i probably wouldn't have graduated middle school if not for that. math and science classes were so traumatic, especially when i was put before a whole class to solve problems on a board and then ridiculed when i couldn't do it. any more advanced math problems are so abstract to me that if there is no clear formula to memorize and apply, i just wont get it. i can never remember numbers and also have the same problem you described, when i count something very often a random number pops up in my head and then im not sure which one was the correct one, so i have to do calculations all over again. i count on fingers or very often imagine or draw lines or dots with each number while counting to not get lost. i work in retail and cash is always the worst. i have to check 5 times if its the right amount and ofc its very slow, but whatever, its better to be slow then incorrect when it comes to money. but that job is minimum wage trash anyway so i try not overly worry, bc when i do and try to do things properly they say im too slow... i was never diagnosed bc i performed well in arts and languages and was perceived as an overall "unproblematic" child and also, to my knowledge, in my country during mandatory schooling, there are no benefits for ppl other than dyslectic and autistic in regular schools and even those are just minor accommodations that aren't what those kids really need. at uni its probably similar but idk for sure, never got to that. my whole education in general was just a nightmare. had to retake a year in high school but at some point i couldn't keep up and dropped out. i don't regret the decision, it felt necessary. i just regret not being given a chance by the system. anyway im applying to hs for adults this year so wish me luck bc i have no idea how im going to survive that again.... im, in a way, so glad that its not just me being "stupid" and\or "lazy" like they tried to tell me, like i tried to tell myself and that im not the only one experiencing such difficulties. this video was very soothing in that regard and for that, i thank you. we were children and the system failed us, but we have the same right to exist like every other person, so we do and the fight goes on.

Geez, the words you're using and _how_ you use them is glorious!

I don't know if I have dyscalculia or not, I just happened to be very very bad at anything math related and even today, my boyfriend has to make the calculations for our home cause it's basically impossible for me. I know until multiplication and that's it. I did a genetic testing and one of the results: "probably lower than average in maths" unfortunately it's true 😅 i'm trying to learn how to code now and even the beginning doesn't make sense, as I also struggle with logic. I had a very sensible math teacher who understood I couldn't pass (and in my country if you don't pass in a subject, you might be required to redo every single subject again) he just straight up told me: "look i know you've been studying a lot so i'm going to help you with this final test grade, you are a good student overall" he just gave me the necessary grade to pass.

I can relate to a lot of what you said but for dyslexia, thanks for sharing.

Man, it’s the worst when ppl become indignant and condescending about it as if it’s something done on purpose. Most dehumanizing feeling I’ve encountered. The interesting thing about this is that the western public education system is built almost to ensure ppl slip through the cracks. None of this changed for me until I realized flash cards and mnemonic techniques are game changers.

OMG Zoe! I have no idea how you ended up on my KZbin algorithm but boy howdy is this relatable! For me it's financial stability (the sacrifice is doing something I hate but being poor sucks way more) and I def have wanted to get tested. Even in work I hate in struggle with noise, distractions, trying to keep up. Numbers I struggled with so hard as a teen and had the opportunity to grow in one area but walked away because I had no interest in embarassing myself in trying to math on the spot. Not even sure where to start with testing but wild this came up!

Beautiful piece.

We sound basically the same but the opposite problem, which is hilarious in so many ways

I love what your grade 10 math teacher did. It sounds like they took you as an individual, unique student. We all have unique brains and needs. As a Neurodivergent person, I see firsthand how the lack of universal design in schools hurts students. Our education system does not encourage teachers to do this. We need to embrace human diversity! :)

It's heartbreaking to hear such a similar story, knowing that we've had to go through with this. I'm EXCELLENT at science- I've been obsessed with Paleontology since birth but had to give up on that because you can't touch sciences without math, and I had accepted that I was just too stupid to be good at math. My grade 2 English teacher asked if I was the R slur because I didn't understand how division worked no matter how many times she tried to explain it and it's something that's lived with me forever. I'm really good at everything else I do, but every career path I could take needs me to be good at running, and I feel like a fish in a bowl. It's had being too disabled to be given the chance to flourish/succeed, but not disabled enough for any kind of real support. It sucks to hear how many people go through this, but I hope things will be better for kids of future generations. I sincerely hope the best for you and that you're able to find something in life that's fulfilling for both you and your bank account.

Crazy how my experience is so similar! I haven't been diagnosed, but I was infamously good at language and horrible at math 😂

I was diagnosed in 6th grade, but this is so real. I couldn’t even make it through college. ADHD + dyscalculia is a nightmare in some aspects.

I had a full ADHD diagnosis where they tested me and wrote, in the report, that I struggled with math but attributed it to "memory issues" but did not notice the fact that I had no such memory issues where language was concerned, where I outperformed. I figured out I had dyscalculia on my own when I was 20 something because I typed in "number blindness" into google out of desperation.