Krita 3 Released

 

Krita is a free and open source 2D sketching and painting application released under the GPL license.  They just announced a milestone with the release of version 3.  The focus of Krita 3 is animation, with the following animation focused features:

You can now do proper frame-by-frame animation in Krita. Multiple layers, all sorts of playback speeds, onion skinning, on top of all of Krita’s existing paint tools: It’s enough to make any animator’s fingers itch!Kiki_Krita_86

  • Animatable raster layers – Animated raster images with frames, and use the time-line docker to order them. Works in all color spaces and depths as well!
  • Onion skinning – This allows you to have an overlay of the previous and next frames, an important assistant when going from rough animation to smooth animation!
  • Importing image sequence – Import any set of images as an animated layer, automatically sorted by naming scheme.
  • Exporting image sequence – Export the whole animation as an image sequence, for further processing in other programs.
  • New dockers – timeline docker, animation docker, and animation workspace
  • CSV import and export – for layered animation, for use with TV-paint, or Blender via a plugin, courtesy of Laszlo Fazekas
  • Spriter scml exporter – Make the base image in Krita and then export it to this powerful cut-out animation tool for games.

 

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Of course, this is only a small subsection of the new functionality in Krita 3.  Krita 3 also adds Instant Preview,  improved layering functionality, an improved layering UI, better shortcuts, a unified grid UI, improved filters and much more.  For the full release notes click here.  Or you can preview the new features in the view embedded below.

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