If that seems a little abstract, don’t worry. These seem closer to a comic than an animation, but the key difference between the two is that in comics the composition is made to help the reader move their eyes over the page, while in animation the viewer’s eyes will stay in relatively the same spot, so consecutive storyboard frames will have their most important elements in relatively the same place. They are sketches of the basic composition of each scene, with some extra notes on what is going to move, like camera movement, character movement, notes on audio, notes on color. You can do this in any kind of text editor you like. Typically, most animation projects start with a script or at the very least an outline of actions that will happen. The storyboard docker can help you plan out the shots of a scene. Therefore, you need to take a page from professional animation and do some planning! If you don’t know what working memory is, you probably have too little to do a long sequence in Krita. This means that animation files will eat up all of your computer’s working memory (RAM). Krita is specialized in frame by frame animation, and because of this Krita keeps all the frames in memory. This docker helps you create and keep track of storyboards.įurthermore, especially when you want to do a big animation, that is, any animation longer than 3 seconds, you will need to think about how you are going to approach this.

This docker allows you to do minor tweening for animation curves. This docker controls the look of the onion skin, which in turn is useful for seeing the previous frame. The layers that are created in the timeline docker also appear on the normal Layer docker. The timeline docker also contains functions to manage your layers. View and control all the frames in your animation. In traditional animation workflow, what you do is that you make Keyframes, which contain the important poses, and then draw frames in between ( tweening in highly sophisticated animator’s jargon).įor this workflow, there are three important dockers: This will make the animation dockers and workflow appear. To access the animation features, the easiest way is to change your workspace to Animation. In specific, Krita has frame-by-frame raster animation.

Thanks to the 2015 Kickstarter, Krita has animation.

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