Smooth tilt and pan?

[AhabGreybeard]

Hello @SGVideoCollection and welcome to the forum

@SGVideoCollection

I’m about to tackle a project I’m not qualified to do with absolutely no knowledge of animating digitally. I’m going right in, making a fully animated music video with no experience whatsoever, other than being able to draw and understanding keyframes.

This is going to be ‘an interesting learning experience’ for you and I really do wish you well (with lots of luck included).

@SGVideoCollection

Sort of like the movement in this thread My first animation test That sweeping motion of the background wasn’t frame by frame, was it?

That sweeping movement was probably done in Blender (or Spine?) which has 3D model animation with a moving camera facility that will follow a defined path. That is an order of magnitude more complicated than krita.

@SGVideoCollection

I just had it in my head that I could increase the size of the background and have it move from one side of the screen to the other. This has to be possible, right?

Yes it is, by the use of animated transform masks controlled by the content of the Animation Curves docker:
Animation Curves Docker — Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation
This is the most complicated docker there is and it still has UI problems because it’s a fairly new development.

@SGVideoCollection

I want it to look like the camera is tilting down, so the moon will rise to the top of the screen, the trees at a slightly slower pace to give it depth.

You’d need to use two separate animated transform masks, one for the moon and one for the trees to get that effect.
You can get a variable tilt effect by using a rotation (transform) about the X or Y axis.

Depth is all about how you manipulate the layers. Krita has no 3D awareness (unlike Blender which is all about 3D).

@SGVideoCollection

then Krita would magically fill in the gaps and do a nice slow transition from one position to the next.

There is no content ‘tweening’. Only opacity tweening and transform tweening, for smooth movement/rotation/scale-zooming.
For most of this, you’d have to create off-canvas content that gets brought into view as the transform sequence progresses.

Here is an example that uses fixed intitial images:
Paint in haste, erase at leisure
The techniques are fairly simple but the entire thing needs planning and can be tedious.

You’ll be able to get lots of help and advice on this forum but please create a separate new topic for each ‘subject’, e.g. off-canvas content, animated transform masks, etc.
Also, please upload a full screen screenshot with the relevant dockers visible to illustrate and problems you may be having.

To be honest, I think you’re being too ambitious too soon but I hope you enjoy trying and learning and even get to do what you want to do.