Not gonna lie, it’s the main reason I gave it a try . I needed to know if it was a boast or the real deal.
Opentoonz was my go-to software for animation. It’s very similar to Toon Boom Harmony but free.
Must be noted that I said “was” because Krita totally bought me here.
Howard Wimshurst (can find him on youtube) is the animator that inspires me the most, love his style kind of painterly.
You can clearly see that he is using a specific brush for his work.
Opentoonz, of course, gives us many brushes to use but due to its instability, I don’t dare use a brush too special. Also having to keep the lineart and coloring on the same layer (if not impossible to use the fill tool) always distressed me
But playing around with Krita just felt good. Took just 10 min to learn how to use the surface level of the animation features.
If I say Opentoonz is a free brother of Toon Boon Harmony, then I feel like Krita is the free brother of TVPaint ( this is impressive knowing Krita is not even focused on the animation only ). Now I’m really wondering if I still need to buy TVPaint like I wanted Krita my bank account can’t thank you enough
As for the comparison to CSP, the timeline and layer management feel a lot easier to understand and learn.
I’ll also thank CSP for their new business plan. Without it, I’d not have checked Krita’s news and see not the boast but the truth about Krita’s animation feature.
Can’t wait to work more with it
Ps: If Krita can have an Effect Nodes & fx schematic feature, I’d cry tears of joy
Hi @Warrenayiss You’ve Renderd the animation to animated .gif with a transparent background. You can do that but it doesn’t look good on the forum webpage background
I hope you continue animating with krita and explore more of its capabilities.
Effects are a broad concept, it is difficult to guess what special effects we are talking about. If we are talking about typical for video editors, such as “transitions between scenes” - then Krita will not provide ready-made solutions. But this does not make them impossible, tools such as “transformation mask” and “animation curves” allow you to simulate some camera movements, moving of objects in the scene. Transparency control using “curves” makes it possible to smoothly manifest layers (groups) But this will require some effort in mastering and assembling - it is likely easier to import the material created in Krita into a video editor to impose some “ready-made effect” than to recreate it manually in Krita. The “transformation mask” and the updated “cropping” tool in the “canvas only” mode will allow you to export ready-made frames from a wide scene to simulate a “camera slide” or a “parallax effect”.
I’m more talking about effects like Bloom, Glow, etc
I’m sure there are ways to make these effects, I’m talking about something like a property that you add to the layer and have the effect ready, you would just have to change some parameters.
For example, I can have a glow effect by duplicating the layer and using a gaussian blur effect on the copy beneath it. I’m talking about a feature that would instead make a glow effect based only on the layer I choose and that would permit me to change things like the glow color, strength, radius, opacity, etc
If you are curious you can watch this: Glow in Harmony Premium - YouTube
It’s a feature already in Opentoonz and Toon Boom Harmony (Premium)
It is difficult to give an unambiguous answer here, Krita does not offer “nodes”, but there are “Layer Styles” (as far as I know, they are largely compatible with PS) that allow you to create a glow effect, (internal, external, flat shadow, embossing) And they work on animated layers and groups, but I’m not sure that it’s possible to control their parameters dynamically. It is also not yet possible to dynamically control the internal parameters of the effect, such as the blur radius.
And I’m probably ahead of events, changes to the opacity of the mask are still unavailable, so I’ll have to work with copies or clones of the layer to manifest effects using masks.
It turns out that the situation is close to the one you described earlier, you can use a copy of the layer with a ready-made effect and make a smooth transition to it through the animation curves, but it will look like a change in transparency, not a change in the radius of light or blur.
For a complex multilayer animation, you can Render it out to an image sequence then File → Import Animation Frames to bring it in as a single layer animation and put Layer Styles and Filter Masks on it as a sort of in-house post processing.
There are all sorts of workflow possibilities.
. I needed to know if it was a boast or the real deal.
Krita my bank account can’t thank you enough
