Hi guys, I am trying to make a “breakthrough” into the animation world, but I simply cannot figure out this animation software- I will try to make my explanation easy to understand, lol.
Imagine I have my timeline up and the blank canvas in front, I add in a blank keyframe and then draw on said frame, I then add in more blank frames but when I do the drawing stays on across all of the frames, so I erase it- I then add a blank frame, say, on frame “3”, but when I draw on it, only the first frame lights up to indicate its been drawn on, and then drawing that I have put on frame three goes across all of the other frames, and when I select “play” it doesn’t do anything.
I feel like there is a really simple solution that I’m not seeing, or maybe this is just a sign from a higher being that I should just give up on animation LOL. I hope I explained clearly, I feel like a video would have explained better.
A full screen screenshot with the Layers docker and the Animation Timeline docker fully visible would be also be useful and easier to make than a video.
You can upload your screenshot here. As a new user, there may be limits on how many uploads you can make but those limits will be raised as time passes and you use the forum more.
There are many good YouTube videos for animation tutorials in krita and there is also the manual:
Yes, that’s called a Hold Frame and it literally holds the contents of the previous keyframe.
It’s very useful if you want a character to be static for a few frames.
If you want to stop a frame being held like that, just add a blank frame after it, then the frame contents will disappear after that frame.
You have the Storyboard docker visible but don’t seem to be using it. I can’t give any advice about that because I don’t use it.
When asking for help and advice, it’s a good idea to have the Layers docker fully visible, as I said earlier.
On the image, you say “I drew on the 3rd layer”.
You were drawing on frame-3 of Paint Layer 1. All the frames are stored in the same layer as you create them one after the other.
You can have more than one layer as an animated layer, each with its own animation all overlaid on each other.
Your screenshots do not shown Hold Frames which would be indicated by a horizontal line through the frames on the Animation Timeline.
I suspect this is because you are adding Blank Frames everywhere instead of letting Hold Frames do that work for you. Hold Frames are automatic and very useful.
