Spark of Creativity

[Asta_Muratti]

Short hand-drawn animation created with Krita, little spark of creativity to light a way (hope it will lead to Waterfall of Inspiration)
HD version is available here on Vimeo
[Spark of Creativity animation ]

[AhabGreybeard]

You seem to have Exported a .gif and uploaded it instead of Rendered an animated .gif.

Vimeo says it can’t find the page you linked to.

It’s ok, we can wait so good luck in resolving the situation

[Asta_Muratti]

Thank you for notifying me, i just checked Vimeo link and it works for me, should i use embeded link insted of ordinary one?
as for gifs - i suppose i should use just a picture, this one is a .mov file rendered as gif (as a part of longer video)
Maybe the best way is to render Krita file as a gif?

[AhabGreybeard]

All is good now, thank you.
Your link used to contain your account name and that gave a not found page.

It’s a lively and long lived spark that’s having a good time

You can Render it as .gif (animated .gif) in the rendering options and the forum will accept an animated .gif for upload. I think it’s a 4MB size limit but I’m not sure about that.

I’ve just downloaded it and re-rendered it as a 610 x 430 animated .gif (3.4 MB file size) and that uploads here ok with not too obvious palettisation.

[Asta_Muratti]

thank you for your help! telling the truth, i never used gifs in all my life) it wasn’t something i needed, so i suppose i just overlooked it completely, gifs from Krita are too big even if it is 600x400 (File-Render Animation, it is about 40Mb), and if it is File - Export it doesn’t work (i get static image only), i can render it as video file to gif in Photoshop, but it was my previous option and it does not display correctly, so i would be grateful for any tips (creating a 4K render is easier than a small gif… laughable? )))

[AhabGreybeard]

I’m puzzled as to why you can’t produce a 600 x 400 animated .gif of small size.
A .gif has the problem of a 256 colour palette limit so there’s the gradient banding and ‘speckle’ problems with using it but animated .gifs can be quite small in size and display well in a browser.

I ‘ripped’ your video from Vimeo to get a 1920 x 1080 .mp4 file then brought it into krita with the Animator Video Reference plugin:

Importing Video for Animation?

I have checked around a little, but I may have missed it either in the forums or Krita itself. I know that users can import animation frames into a project, but what about video? I use iPad Procreate’s animation for portability to start projects, and I’d like to be able to bring those over to Krita, since it has more tools for finishing something. Procreate can export a couple types of files for any animation rendered, but I want to know if Krita supports anything video-wise, apart from just fr…

That gave me a 1920 x 1080 animated layer at 24 fps with 144 frames using 1.1 GB of RAM and it saved to a 92.5 MB .kra file.

I did Image → Scale Image To New Size to reduce it to 610 x 430 and that Rendered out as a 3.4 MB animated .gif.

Looking at this in more detail, there’s a problem with rendering an animated .gif if you try to resize it with the Width: and Height: values.
Those setting have no effect but they do work for .mp4 output.

So, you’d have to scale it down (which takes a bit of time) before rendering as animated .gif and then Undo the scaling operation, or Quit and not Save.

I’ll raise a formal bug report for this.

[nicholas_brownley]

Looks really cool

[Asta_Muratti]

thank you so much!

@AhabGreybeard

Looking at this in more detail, there’s a problem with rendering an animated .gif if you try to resize it with the Width: and Height: values.
Those setting have no effect but they do work for .mp4 output.

yes, it seems to be true, never thought of it! i resized the file to 500x300, it is 8.3MB now, i should just play with the settings more and i will try Animator Video Reference plugin for sure!
Thank you for your attention to this problem, your support is greatly appreciated!

[Asta_Muratti]

thank you for your kind words!

[AhabGreybeard]

The latest nightly build does not have this problem so it seems to be fixed (but is not suitable for general use). However, the nightly ‘stable’ build does not seem to be fixed so I’ve put a ‘query’ bug report in:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423439

I’m puzzled as to why you get an 8.3MB file with a 500 x 300 animated .gif but I got 3.4MB with a 610 x 430 .gif.
Does your original .kra animation have 144 frames at 24 fps?

Breaking News: As I was typing this post, @halla (Boudewijn Rempt, the Lead Developer) saw my bug report and pushed the fix into the 4.3.1 alpha branch and so the ‘stable’ nightly should pop out of the KDE binary factory later today as a Jun 24 build.
(This is how good the developers are )

Here for Windows packages: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krita_Stable_Windows_Build/

and here for Linux appimages: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krita_Stable_Appimage_Build/

Although it’s ‘stable’ you should only use it if you really want any bug fixes that have been incorporated into it.
For Windows, I’d suggest using the .zip portable/standalone package which will not affect your existing 4.3.0 formal release installation.

[Asta_Muratti]

that is amazing! haven’t seen such quick response from Devs since my linux days! in the world there everything and everyone is in ‘indifferent’ mode all the time seen this is a balm to the soul!
i have a small gif now, i will try to upload it in the original post)
i am so used to huge files, my brain starts to warn me “something is wrong here!” if the image is not 5000x5000), i must be more flexible! new knowledge gained and new skills acquired - thank you!