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People compare Krita to Photoshop, and that's fine. There's another space where it shines and people might not know about that. It's animation. Friend and I hav
by Keyframe 9y ago
People compare Krita to Photoshop, and that's fine. There's another space where it shines and people might not know about that. It's animation. Friend and I have been working on a hand-drawn short animation (~10 minutes) for a few years now and it's just about done (final stages of sound editing). We started out in Harmony, but we were extremely disappointed with it. We tossed around the idea to switch over to TV Paint (raster based), but I thought that maybe there's an OSS something for it? Being an OSS fan and advocate, after all. If Toonz were released earlier, we might've tried that (not really, considering years of experience with it). We even considered Photoshop - it now has a nice animation workflow built-in, but I didn't want to go away from OSS until I explored all the options. So, there was Krita. Let me tell you, not only is it great, it easily cut down our animation time by a large percentage over if we were using Harmony. It's awesome tool for 2d hand-drawn animation with still A LOT of room to grow, workflow-wise.
tl;dr; If you want to animate by hand, give Krita a chance. It's better than Harmony and Toonz (again, for hand-drawn animation).
- mephitix 9y agoSince you're on the subject of animation another amazing tool, specifically for pixel art, is asesprite. https://aseprite.org https://aseprite.org Among many other features it has onion skinning, play controls per layer, and looping over custom-labeled set of frames. I used it for my first game last year and it made everything so much more fun :)
- Keyframe 9y agoI'm aware of this tool, but this project isn't pixel art. Traditional animation. I've tried working in that style several times, but it's so damn consuming! Not that I won't try again.
- mephitix 9y agoIt is really time consuming. But somehow more approachable for a non-artist like myself. I've tried freehand drawing but I wasn't happy with the results... I need more knowledge and more practice.
- peppage 9y agoHave you tried https://www.piskelapp.com/ https://www.piskelapp.com/ ?
- boudewijnrempt 9y agoOh, please do get in touch with us so we can feature your project on krita.org!
- Keyframe 9y agoI'm just on my way to editing, we can prep materials and a short video and stuff. Where can I send you stuff?
- boudewijnrempt 9y agofoundation@krita.org