Turn Art Into 3D AR Magic in Procreate YouTube

Hello everyone and welcome to Art and Design. My name is Thorgir and today I've got a special video for you because we're going to turn this picture right here into 3D like this. Let's check it out. All right so in principle this is a very simple method to use. You don't really need to use Procreate in order to do this. You can use Photoshop or any software that allows you to draw using layers. Basically what we're going to do is we're going to export all of the But before we do that we need to make sure that we don't have any layers that rely heavily on blending modes. So we don't want layers that like this that go all the way to the edges and have a blending mode. Now this layer right here is just used to sort of give contrast for the shadows and the highlights. I'm gonna actually merge this one down so that it merges with the background layer. Just gonna squeeze them together like this and there we go. Now I have a single layer that works as the background. Now this program doesn't handle opacity and blending modes very well. I'm actually gonna merge these layers together as well because they are a single object and I don't want any spacing between them. So just gonna squeeze them together and now they are a single object. So okay the next thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna export all of these layers and to do that in Procreate we simply tap on the wrench icon right over here and then we tap on export PNG files. I'm just gonna tap on that and that will export each layer as a separate PNG file and I'm gonna save that in folders and in this folder right over here. So now that we have all of the layers exported into the iClouds folder we're gonna go ahead and download the SlideAR app and that's this one right here SlideAR and I already bought this. I think it costs a few dollars but since I already bought it just gonna tap on open and tap on the plus button. You need to tap on it again in order to import the layers and we're gonna select from the files. Then just navigate to the folder, select all of the files, select, select all and now just want to tap on open. Now it's gonna download all of the layers into the phone and put them in the app. This might take a few minutes depending on the internet connection all that but let's just fast forward through this process and we're done. So now let's compare where the layers are supposed to be. So one of the things that the app doesn't do correctly is position the layers in the right order so just need to go ahead and rearrange the layers just tap and drag on them and move them into the right place. Okay so I think I got the order right so I'm just gonna press done on this and now we need to specify the target. Now the target is basically any unique shape that has a high contrast ratio so basically let's just go ahead and create a new layer and I'm gonna fill it with white and let's draw something on it to give it just some bit of contrast. Alright so I think this should be enough contrast for the camera to pick up so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna simply export this into a jpeg image and we're just gonna save that onto the device and the device will then synchronize to the cloud and we can open it on the phone. Let's just make sure that it's on the phone. Okay need to wait just a few seconds. Now we have the file on the phone and we can target it so let's pick from the camera roll and there we go we've got the target image on the phone. Okay so now we have the image right over here and we have the target image on the phone and we're going to use the target image as the placement of the 3d object so let me just show you what I mean. As soon as we point the phone towards the target image look at that. That's so awesome. Now we can see there's a little bit of weirdness going on with the light source over there. There's a layer that seems to be causing problems. That's one of the problems with blending modes. This is supposed to be a blending mode layer. I'm just gonna move it out of the way and here we can see what this is supposed to look like. Now I'm gonna try putting this in the other direction so that it goes into the device. It looks like a window into the device. That's so cool. Let's try going in the exact opposite direction and go to the extreme. So that ladies and gentlemen that is Procreate in 3d. Absolutely amazing. Now I think the tracking could be a little bit better. It's a little bit jittery. Maybe it could use some stabilization. Might be something that I could incorporate into the app at some point. Another thing that I would like to see is the ability to simply import a Procreate file and not have to export all of the layers separately. That way we could maybe take advantage of using blending modes and all that sort of stuff but I think this is pretty pretty cool tech demo. Other than that I want to thank you all very much for watching. Like this video if you liked it. Hit that subscribe button and click the bell icon if you want to get notified when a new video comes on the channel. We do a lot more art and design related videos on this channel. Other than that I want to thank you all very much for watching. Take care and have a wonderful day. See you in the next one. Bye bye.