Can somebody once and for all clarify how to make animated (multi-frame) brushes?

[Michelist]

Hello @Matthew_Carson, and welcome to the forum!

Drop that AI garbage, AI hasn’t done anything good for creating art so far …

Then, this post has the descriptions you need:

Blood brush krita! looking for alternative to krita

A GIMP Image Hose Brush or GIH Brush, or Animated Brush, is a brush tip that contains more than one brush tip and can apply the brush tips it contains in different, previously definable variations. Here you can find a lot of information about Gimp Image Hose Brushes (GIH) : The first two links lead you to Krita’s well written manual (that can always be reached out of Krita using F1) The next links lead you to the even more informative GIMP-Manual, at least in regard to GIH-Brushes: htt…

And sorry, also Krita’s manual belongs to them, but the GIMP manual describes it better, and for creating GIH brush tips GIMP is better suited than Krita, but Krita does too.

You need to create your single brush tips layer by layer, so each layer will get a brush tip of your GIH-Brush Tip you create, but not any export to whatever your AI-Script made.
After you have the layers with your brush tips, you have to save “this picture” as a GIH file, that will open the dialog in which you define the characteristics of your GIMP Image Hose-Brush Tip. You need to sort your layers beforehand saving them into your GIH-Brush Tip!

Just searched a bit deeper:
Also, this topic (with a lot of similarities) on will help you:

How can I make a brush similar to the Stamp Heart?

You need to create a GIH brush tip, a so-called GIMP Image Hose. Therefore, you need a few leopard patches, but the more you have, the more variations are possible. In Krita, you have to create a picture where each layer holds a single patch, let’s say you got 24 patches, then, after placing them into their layers, you can save them via “File” >> “Save as …” as “Gimp Image Hose Brush (*.GIH)” → [Save as GIH] to get the following dialog: [GIH-Dialog] where you can play with the settings wh…

And very helpful will be Krita’s series on creating brushes, the most comprehensive tutorial on making brushes:

So, for now, I have to stop and sleep. If you have further questions after the lecture and watching the videos I gave you, I’ll try to answer them, but I’m a human and don’t know everything.

Michelist