Are you interested in making your own digital animations, cartoons, or short clips but you're unsure where or how to begin? Made for first time learners, and taught in a slow yet measured pace, learn the foundations that will help you in using Procreate Dreams.

📱Procreate Dreams is a new and revolutionary app that allows artists of all skills levels to tell their own stories. It can be found exclusively on the Apple App Store for a one-time fee of 19.99 (USD), and it is necessary to use in this course.

🎨 Together we will create an animation each week building on the different tools and software found in Procreate Dreams. The animations will be easy to draw, made with simple shapes and forms reminiscent of the mid century style like that of artist Mary Blair and the UPA school. Students are also encouraged to create their own animation, too.

Below is an EXAMPLE breakdown of what to roughly expect week to week:

🏛 Week #1 | Week of January 1 - January 7
🎬 Principle of Animation | Squash and Stretch 
✓ Learn how to animate a ball bouncing in place.

🏛 Week #2 | Week of January 8 - January 15
🎬 Principle of Animation | Anticipation 
✓ Learn how to animate an object being drawn from a pocket.

🏛 Week #3 | Week of January 16 - January 22
🎬 Principle of Animation | Staging 
✓ Learn how to animate a character blinking.

🏛 Week #4 | Week of January 23 - January 29
🎬 Principle of Animation | Straight-ahead action and pose-to-pose 
✓ Learn how to animate fire, smoke, and water.

🏛 Week #5 | Week of January 30 - February 4
🎬 Principle of Animation | Follow through and overlapping action
✓ Learn how to animate a leaf blowing in the wind.

🏛 Week #6 | Week of February 5 - February 11
🎬 Principle of Animation | Slow in and Slow out 
✓ Learn how to animate a head turning from side to side.

🏛 Week #7 | Week of February 12 - February 18
🎬 Principle of Animation | Arc 
✓ Learn how to animate a ball bouncing from side to side.

🏛 Week #8 | Week of February 19 - February 25
🎬 Principle of Animation | Secondary Action 
✓ Learn how to animate a character eating a food.

🏛 Week #9 | Week of February 26 - March 3
🎬 Principle of Animation | Timing 
✓ Learn how to animate an arrow hitting a target.

🏛 Week #10 | Week of March 4 - March 10
🎬 Principle of Animation | Exaggeration
✓ Learn how to animate a phone vibrating.

🏛 Week #11 | Week of March 11 - March 17
🎬 Principle of Animation | Solid Drawing 
✓ Learn how to animate a figure or form with depth and shape.

🏛 Week #12 | Week of March 18 - March 24
🎬 Principle of Animation | Appeal 
✓ Learn how to animate with a variety of shapes, proportions, and simplicity.

🚨 Important 🚨 To reduce eye strain and encourage movement, students will have a short  break at the middle of class. Animation can be taxing on the body especially our eyes, and spine / posture, so it’s important students get a break between their creative work to stand up and stretch.

After the 12th week of instruction, the class will start again from week 1 with ✨NEW✨ animation challenges! These 12 weeks are loosely structured around the 12 principles of animation that can be found at the root of all motion-based media. Animation students learn firsthand about these principles and how to use them in their work, and each week your child will learn how to apply them in practice to the animations they create in and outside of class.