I would like to use Krita to make Animated Titles for videos. The titles would include animated text and knot-work borders. If you Google “knot work borders” you can get an idea of the style I am interested in animating.
I have seen something similar to what I want to achieve on a website called “Envato”
I would be interested to know if it is possible in Krita or if I need another type of software to achieve this.
I am a complete beginner to Krita, I’m using Windows 10 and a Huion 1060Plus tablet.
For animated titles, many video editors have title effects that may be easier and more useful that making a sliding/fading/whatever title effect using krita.
If you’re using Windows then you can get the free version of DaVinci Resolve which is supposed to be very good.
For the knot border, or any artwork, you can probably also use a video editor with the surround artwork as an imported external .png file used with fade in/out effects.
In krita, you can do this with an artwork border that has its opacity controlled over time with opacity keyframes on the timeline. Then render it out as an image sequence for import into a video editor.
You can also do text/artwork sliding effects. Whatever you can imagine, you can do it given enough time and effort.
As a complete beginner to krita, you’ll have a lot of learning to do for animation.
If you’re working with existing video files then it may be better to explore the capabilities of a video editor application.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I use Davinci Resolve and Hitfilm express. for video editing and compositing respectively. Hitfilm has very good compositing, although I don’t think it’s going to give me the level of quality that something like Krita could produce.
I have done titles in Hitfilm previously, using various effects and masking to reveal graphics and text. This is a lengthy process though.
But I imagined the knot-work actually being drawn by an ‘invisible hand’ ? Do you think Krita could animate this effect?
The ‘invisible hand’ painting effect is done with hand painted animated transparency masks. It’s a technically simple process but it takes a lot of time and manual effort.
For ‘wipe’ types of reveal/fade effects, you can construct animated transparency masks that can be reused in different projects.
This is something I’ve been playing with but haven’t got around to finalising or posting yet. (There are some interesting problems that need to be invesigated.):
I’d be happy to give you that collection of animated wipe transparency masks if they’ll be of any use to you but you’d then have to learn how to use them.
None of what you want to do is technically difficult but it does need learning and the ‘hand painted’ effects can take a long time.
You don’t need animated transparency masks to make simple entire frame fade in/out effects because you can use opacity keyframes on an animated paint layer.
That’s very useful advice and thanks for the kind offer of the Wipes, but Hitfilm ( and Davinci ) have similar wipes built in, so I don’t think I’ll need those just yet.
Thank you for the links too, I will be looking at those in due course, although I’m going to get to grips with drawing in Krita first.
Thanks hugely for your help on this ‘knotty’ little problem
Similar to ahab, I made frame by frame animated fluidiquid transition effect. I made black and white animated mask and used that in kdenlive while editing
