So, in this tutorial...
I'll show you how to animate
with my
favorite free animation program...
Krita!
Which is sort of like photoshop.
It's great for painting backgrounds,
but also for doing frame-by-frame animation!
*Intro Music*
All the download links and the timecode codes for the different chapters in this video,
will be available in the video description below.
Also, if you'd like to download the source files, and animation examples we created,
they're available in the gumroad link below.
So, make sure to check that out!
Once we're Krita's website,
we're gonna go up to download...
and we want the Krita desktop version.
And the installer I'm going to use is 64-bit installer, but they also have a 32-bit.
And it's also available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
which I really like. C:
So we're gonna click our installer...
and a window will pop up asking where to download the installer.
So say that somewhere where you'll be able to access it later like the desktop.
So, we'll go ahead and click save...
And once the download's done, you'll see it in your download bar down here.
Or you can navigate to the folder where it saved.
We'll double click it to install Krita.
And if you're new to Windows, it may ask you if you really want to run this program.
We know this program is safe, so go ahead and click run...
Then, we'll click next to set it up.
Accept the terms and agreements...
Click next.
And just install it on the default folder.
And, I leave all this stuff checked,
when I'm installing it usually.
We'll go ahead and click I agree again.
Install it into our start menu folder.
And we'll also create a desktop icon, so we can open it later.
And click install, and the program will install.
And once it says completed on the top left, we're gonna go ahead and click next.
And finish.
So, I'll go ahead and open up Krita, by double clicking on its icon.
*very slow process of double clicking icon*
So when you first open up Krita,
it will look like this.
To create a new image, we're gonna go up to File...
New...
And we'll create a new document.
I'll usually just go under custom documents,
And I'll set it to... 1920 by 1080...
at 72 pixels per inch.
And if you want to save this for future use...
You can type in the name of your format, and then click save.
And then next time you want to use the same format, it'll be in this dropdown menu.
So we'll go ahead and click create...
And we have a new blank document, which we can go ahead and start drawing in!
So let's figure out how to navigate in Krita.
So to zoom in and out...
on your keyboard...
on the top right by the back space button.
To pan around,
hold down the spacebar,
and your...
cursor(!) will become a hand,
and you can move around your page this way.
To draw,
we're gonna grab our brush tool,
which is right here.
*If you can't tell.*
Or we can press "B" as in...
to quickly get to our brush.
Now the default brush...
may not be the brush that you want.
So the window that I like to use is usually this brush preset window over here.
And if you don't see that,
go under Settings...
Dockers...
And Brush Presets.
We'll be using the dockers later, so note that our Animation...
And our Timeline dockers are...
located here...
We'll be using those later,
BUT FOR NOW...
We're just gonna go into our Brush... Preset, and...
You can see there's a whole bunch of 'em.
Probably too much to pick from.
So, what I like to do is I use this Drop Down...
And I look for... the... kind of brush that I want to use.
And then I can select it...
And start using these kind of brushes.
So... this wet one... is... kind of nice for doing painting like backgrounds, or...
somethin' of that sort.
Ink is good for sketching and doing your doodles.
And you'll notice that I'm getting pressure sensitivity. So when I press harder,
I have a thick line and when I let go and press more softly, I get a thin line.
So this is because I am using a tablet to draw
I'm actuality not using my mouse
If I where to use my mouse it would look more like this
Heh Heh
It's kinda kinda clunky and and there's no presher sensitive
But you totally can animate with a mouse but I highly recommend getting a drawing tablet
If you want a cheap drawing tablet that I would recommend
I put one in the video description below
If you want to erase something
The eraser is located at the top
This is also where your setting's are for every tool that you use
So the eraser is this eraser button here
And that will turn whatever brush you're using into an eraser
So if say you're using a softer brush like this one
It'll be a soft kind of erase
whereas if you're using a hard brush like this one,
and you switch it to eraser
its gonna do more of a hard edge eraser
lets talk about layers!
which you can access by clicking this layers tab right here
if you don't see the layers panel
you can go up to settings, dockers and layers
and if your workspace ever gets messed up you can always
go to window, workspace and then default
and it'll set everything back to its default position
so the way you can think of layers is kinda like stacks of paper
so the layer that's on the bottom is gonna be the bottom of the stack of paper
the layer on top of it will be on top
but then on top of that layer may be another stack of paper