As an animator, I wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be a more nuanced and complex coloring system for animations (or just in general).
And if the colorize mask is the solution, please, please, add functionality to it for things like color changes without a defining line between them. Something like the ZRemesher Guide brush in ZBrush. My current workflow for color is:
- Colorize the art as best as possible
- Rasterize the colorize layer because it’s way too restrictive to color anything more complex
- Fix the inevitable bugs in the coloring
- Paint the actual color patterns over the object
Basically I just use it in place of the paint bucket and rasterize it immediately after. If you want to make it useful for animation, it needs to be flexible enough to not warrant immediately rasterizing.
Either way this has sparked my imagination of what could be possible in Krita, having seen what’s possible in the programs I use for animating professionally, so I’ll likely make a new thread with my suggestions for the colorize mask.