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Since the new year I’ve Been experimenting with the new animation software procreate dreams, and using the a.i. capabilities of photoshop to assist me

Like many of us, i have mixed feelings about artificial Intelligence and so when it comes to using photoshop’s a.i.-powered generative fill, i do wonder if i am assisting in the rapid destruction of civilisation. It is however a very useful tool and so i have been using it to create backgrounds - generating areas of colour on top of which to animate

I remember creating my first animation at secondary school with a class mate - it was shot with a super-8 camera that had a stop-motion frame-by-frame button. We made some Plasticine snail-like figures and moved them happily around their cardboard set.

Fast-forward 30 years and here i am experimenting with procreate dreams - an animation app on the ipad from the makers of procreate, the drawing app i’ve been using (loving using!) for the past couple of years.

It’s incredible fun bringing drawings to life with animation and i’m finding the features of the app pretty accessible - it’s amazing what can be achieved in very little time - long gone are the days of drawing each frame (or moving plasticine snails about). it’s by no means better but is certainly much faster!