#Dream Mode

[pisscreant]

had a vivid dream where there was a "play as Kim" mod and I was super excited

after like 2 mins gameplay Harry just turned around looking scandalised and was like "Ohgod... It's me, Kim. *I'm* Grandpa Piss!"

he refused to elaborate even after I savescummed and exhausted all dialogue options

then a notification flashed like "THOUGHT GAINED: GRANDPA PISS" and I went to the thought cabinet screen. all it said was "What the fuck does he mean by that."

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Tetris story mode. It was about a breakup.

[utahlive]

Wilbur Soot has left the store early today

[capsyst]

Here’s a breakdown of my animation.

Once I created the cave set in 3D, I retextured all of the blocks to be a wireframe so I could more easily keep the proportions correct as the camera moved through the scene. I began with a simple box person body. Not only did this help me make sure the proportions were correct but the different angles and sides of the character helped me eventually keep the characters features in the right places later. It’s very rough, but it was a good indication that I was on the right track.

Then began the tedious process of refining the animation. I did a new pass over the original animation with all the features of the character. It’s more detailed, but it’s just as rough in a lot of ways. I wasn’t trying to ensure elements were consistent frame to frame, so you can see a lot of the linework is very wobbly and inconsistent.

Once that was done I went back and did a cleanup phase. This helped smooth out all those inconsistencies and I worked on making sure the animation was smooth and flowed nicely. This became the basis for the final inks and color.

When I’d gotten far enough into working on the scene I went back to the 3D model and rendered it out in multiple passes. I did a flat lighting pass which you see here, and then a shadow pass. I combined the two in Premiere, added some color adjustments and then rendered it out to be used as the background for the final product.

I imported the finished rendered background into Procreate Dreams and began the final coloring. I’d already previously decided on the desaturated colors that would make them fit in this cave environment, so coloring was actually a breeze.

The final two elements that really brought it all together was a shadow layer and a glow layer for the torch. The shadow layer was tricky, but it definitely helps make it seem like the character is interacting with the environment.

As previously mentioned I thought I was going to import this into Procreate and animate it there since I like the Animation Assist tool in Procreate more than I do with how Dreams works. But ultimately because so much of this animation was tied to the movement of the camera I ended up animating ALL of this in Procreate Dream.

I’m really proud of my work here. If there’s anything you wanna learn more about how I worked or anything please feel free to ask, I’d be more than happy to talk about the process more!

[delicehm]

I just realized one thing

Tallulah saw Binary Monster in her dream long before it's introduction

Tallulah had a prophetic dream

You know, who also had prophetic dreams?

Fundy.

Wilbur had some serious beef with Apollo, I see

[yourangle-yuordevil]

I dreamt of Good Omens again. Aziraphale and Crowley were humans and they met after Crowley caused a mess in the bookshop. The plot was complicated but I woke up laughing because in the dream Crowley kept a diary of his day to overcome some of his issues, and this was one of the entries:

[indietapes]

Dream Mode - Tried To Say (Indie Rock)

🕑 1 min / Text: Franklin B. Release Date: Sept. 02, 2022 I like it when artists make their songs easy to listen to and yet not mainstream. Yes, we already featured multi-instrumentalist JJ Giurano alias Dream Mode's music here on our blog, and now I'm stoked to share another beautiful indie rock release by him, titled 'Tried To Say'. I dig the jangly, laid-back guitar riffs together with the warm and mellow vocals, while the slow beat makes it really easy to get into the groove. I think the song is perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon, so I just added it to my personal playlist too. Give it a listen, what do you think? Melody: ★★★★☆ | Production: ★★★★★ | Arrangement: ★★★☆☆ | Energy: ★★★★☆ |  Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/3qKK3kp3FpMdjLjHTPSqgr Follow: https://www.instagram.com/dream_mde ✔️ Available on our Indie Playlist on Spotify.

[hermit-frog]

Daniel opens his mouth:

Armand:

[enden-agolor]

i dont know when i hit 2k followers, but apparently i did. here's some petra's to celebrate

[suntails]

dance of dreams

[calista-222]

ok brb gonna play Splatoon 1's story mode for the first time <- has the game but barely played it

[hyuckieblr]

ISTJ Jacket Behind the Scene — Haechan

[enbyfrogz]

I've come to make an announcement; Jesse Minecraft Story Mode is a bitch ass motherfucker, they pissed on my fucking wife. Thats right, they took their cube ass pixel dick out and they pissed on my fucking wife, and they said their dick was "This big" and I said that's disgusting, so I'm making a callout post on my minecraft server mod chat, Jesse Minecraft Story Mode, you've got a small dick, it's the size of this mushroom except WAY smaller, and guess what? Here's what my dong looks like: PFFFT, THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. ALL 4080 HD, NO SQUARES, NO PIXELS. Look at that, it looks like two balls and a lever. They fucked my wife so guess what? I'm gonna fuck the World. THAT'S RIGHT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, MY SUPER LASER PISS! Except I'm not gonna piss on the world. I'm gonna go higher. I'M PISSING ON THE MOON! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, OBAMA? I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT! YOU HAVE 23 HOURS BEFORE THE PISS DROPLETS HIT THE FUCKING WORLD NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO.

[spiritoast]

pov you are watching hyness flip his shit and throw himself into the heart of a dead eldritch god after throwing dead lesbians at you at the sublime hour of 12:30 AM on a sunday but the star allies sparkler is there so dw about it

[capsyst]

Here’s my second big Procreate Dreams animation! Really challenged myself hard with this one!

Remember that storyboard I did for a Minecraft character meeting the Warden? The beginning of the storyboard involved several shots showing the character running away from mobs until they reached an area the mobs wouldn’t step foot into. I decided to make that chase scene into one continuous shot.

I modeled up a cave in a 3D animation program and moved the camera around to what I hoped would be an appropriate path. Once rendered I imported this into Procreate Dreams and began animating on top of it, using a grid to be my guidelines to help me keep the character proportional.

After a rough animation was done, I went back and refined it. Then I inked and colored it. Finally I added a shadow layer on top and a glow layer for the torch. Took me about half a month (15 days) to complete.

I’m really proud of this one. I thought I would animate it in Procreate like I did the last one, but because of the nature of needing to match the art with the background I found it was much easier to just animate it entirely in Dreams.

I’ll post a breakdown later when I have a chance.

Hope you fellow Minecraft Story Mode fans enjoy this!

(Fun little fact, all of the sound effects are from Minecraft.)