Here are some of the brushes I’ve been working on all day! They’re all shown in the image above.
I’m surprised more people don’t post animated brushes on here! Once I figured out how to make them, I was obsessed.
Animated brushes use multiple brush tips! They’re pretty easy to make. Just open up a new krita drawing file, draw a few different brush tips you like onto a few layers, save it as a .gih file (figure out if you want the images randomized, in a specific order, etc), upload the brush tip, use it on one of your brushes, and there you have it! I like to mess around with rotation and scatter once that’s all done.
I’d love to see other artists upload more animated brushes on here. Actually I’d just love to see more brushes, period. There’s so much potential!!!
Thank you for making these attractive brushes available
It can take a long time with all the images involved.
You should try making a multi-dimensional brush that has more than one control input, that really is ‘fun’.
(Are the green vs brown leaves done with multi-dimensional control?)
By ‘multi-dimensional control’, I meant having the images themselves selected by more than one control input.
e.g. have an image set be selected by ‘incremental’ control and then ‘pressure’ control causes a different set of images to be selected.
That is possible but it greatly increases the number of images you need to make and store in the brushtip.
Ohhh I understand now. The leaves are just set to random, but I do have a droplet one for pressure, and I’ve been tinkering around with one for rotational.
A long time ago, I started to make a tutorial for multi-dimensional control of animated brushes but it was a lot of work so I gave up but I still have the notes.
GIMP has advantages when making multi-dimensional brushes because you can paint a 1-D or 2-D array of images on one layer then grid-split them.
If I ever get around to posting anything about this subject then I’ll ping you.
@WaffleWarrior I’m sorry to bring bad news but there is a problem with your bundle.
The brush presets Ww Leaves Blossom and Ww Leaves Maple are using the default auto brushtip.
This is probably because the brushtip they were designed for are not included in the bundle:
Looking inside the .bundle file itself, which is actually a renamed .zip file:
In the brushes (brushtips) folder there is a file called birds2.gih(1) and a file called blossom.gih(1).
.gih(1) is not a file extension that is recognised by my archive manager and not recognised by krita. As you can see, those brushtip files are not part of the Brush Tips collection inside krita.
That type of file extension is usually created when you paste a file twice into the same place.
You have birds2.gih and birds2.gih(1) so there was obvious confusion there.
So birds2.gih(1) is there instead of ‘mapleleaves.gih’ (?) for the Ww Leaves Maple brush preset.
I suspect that blossom.gih(1) needs to be replaced by blossom.gih for the Ww Leaves Blossom brush preset.
Those two .gih files should be in your collection of resources somewhere.
Using a .zip wrangling utility, it would be an easy matter to open up the .bundle file (as I did) and replace those two files with the correct ones, then zip it back up to make a replacement .bundle file.
As for why it did that in the first place, I don’t know because I’ve only made .bundles to try/play with the facility.
Good day! These brushes look really great - thank you. I’m wondering if you are adding in the Maple Leaf and Blossom brush tips at some point? The Maple Leaf tip would help me out immensely. Anyway, just thought I’d check on that and to say thank you for making these.
