Yes. Drawing layers are a type of content track in Procreate Dreams. Each layer contributes to your content track render limit . This applies if they exist as layers within a track or have been converted into separate tracks on your Timeline.

You can find content track render limits by device in the iPad Compatibility article .

How do layers work in Procreate Dreams and where do I find them?

You can access layers in your track by tapping Draw & Paint and then opening the Drawing Layers panel.

Layers are added to Procreate Dreams in Draw & Paint mode or by importing a Procreate artwork that contains layers.

Layers combined on a single track have the advantage that any keyframes or duration changes will affect the layers inside the track uniformly. For instance, if you shorten the duration of the track, all the drawing layers will change duration too.

If you’d like your layers to be tracks instead, touch and hold on the track and select Convert layers to track . This will create a group on the timeline. Expanding the group will reveal a track for each layer you’ve converted. You can apply keyframes and change the duration of each of these elements independently. For instance, applying Gaussian blur to one of the tracks, will not affect the blur level of another track in the same group.

Preparing a Procreate artwork for importing into Procreate Dreams

As mentioned above, each layer in Procreate will count towards your content track render limit in Procreate Dreams. To avoid hitting your track render limit, reduce the number of layers in Procreate before importing into Procreate Dreams. This is regardless of whether the layers are contained in a single track or converted into multiple tracks.

Before importing a Procreate artwork into Procreate Dreams:

1. Delete any layers no longer required for the final artwork or the animation — for instance, early sketching or under-drawing work.

2. Merge any layers that you don't plan to animate independently from each other. This might include a character’s item of clothing with texture, shading, and color painted over multiple layers. You wouldn’t want those elements to move independently of each other, so they should be merged.

If you’d like to preserve the layers in Procreate, you should duplicate the artwork first and use the copy to prepare for importing into Procreate Dreams.

Read more about merging and deleting layers in the Procreate Handbook.