How To Animate in Krita for Beginners — UPDATED 2023!

I love using Krita, I can't believe it's a FREE animation program!!! Especially with so many other software going to a subscription rental policy. Now's the time to start learning how to animate in Krita, updated for 2023!

In this tutorial, we will learn how to animate traditional frame-by-frame animation, as well as how to animate more modern digital puppet animation!!

I will show how to improve your animation with recommended animation poses and processes I've used in my own professional animation career! With motion-tweens, you can draw your character once, and then use interpolation to have the computer move your drawings around! Pretty neat!

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:49 - How To Start Animating
03:40 - How To Move, Edit, Copy Frames
04:23 - How To Draw In-Between Frames
05:47 - Recommended Pose - Anticipation
07:57 - Recommended Pose - Overshoot
09:12 - How To Animate Hair
11:25 - How To Play Animation
12:20 - Animation Too Fast? Do this!!
14:29 - How To Import Music/Voice Recording
15:55 - How To Time Beats of Music
17:05 - How To Motion-Tween
19:13 - Adding Ease-in Ease-out
22:17 - Export Animation for YouTube

Animation is hard work, but it's so satisfying once you are finished and able to share it with friends and family! Keep at it! :)

Thank you for watching! ♥

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[jessejayjones]

Your help makes it so I can make more tutorials like this! :)

[auctorverbis]

Only one minute in and this has already been 1000 times more useful than their help site.

[BENWELLAnimation]

I always tried to avoid Krita and worked with my cozy best friend Procreate, but since my first Animatic that I did in Krita became my most popular video I used that as a motivation to learn more 2D animation softwares.
And my respect:
This is one of the best software tutorials I have watched so far. A good pacing and all the important information in less than 30 minutes. This is one of the tutorials that encourage me to use the software instead of scaring me away xD
Good Job!

[shadoochekered]

Out of any free animation software I have ever seen so far, I think Krita is the best. Krita's tools are a perfect balance of simple and complicated, and they are easier to understand compared to Blender 2d and other software. It is also not too simple as compared to flipaclip and Pencil2d, such that it has ALL of the tools you ever wanted, in the right place. I highly recommend Krita to intermediate animators who has some experience like me.
And it is so easy to understand how to animate on Krita with this perfect tutorial. Thanks Jesse!

[mxev.]

i wanted to start animation since 2020 but i didn't know how to start and all the animation tutorials didn't help me so i started to quit the idea but this video made me comeback and try again, ur video was super helpful THANK U I LOVE U, now i can start my animation channel

[avosmash]

Fantastic tutorial man. I own so many animation books, yet I struggled so much with grasping the explained principles being shown within. There's kinda just a difficulty understanding the visual flow of animation when the illustrated pages are not ...well, y'know animated! And you are so clear spoken, lively yet not exhaustingly bombastic, and straight to the point too! This channel deserves so much love! Thank you for offering us free knowledge!

[ArtsyAustin]

I've recently watched the Krita tutorial posted 4 years ago, and coincidentally, this. I'm looking forward to it!

EDIT: I absolutely love that you tackled Animating on 1's and 2's. Really helpful! Thank you very much!

[ramengirll]

Yaaaas! Finally Jesse is making an animation tutorial for Krita. I've been waiting for months for this video😭

[DaisyFarm_]

Your voice makes it sound like you're always smiling and it makes me so happy to listen to :)

[Renskejantina]

Best tutorial up until now! I get so frustrated from all those tutorials that are either showing you a ball or a puppet, but you show how those details work and I feel like I can try myself now. Thank you!

[grenishsinxRgold]

I've been using Krita as a tool to fuel my art. So I'm super excited that this was uploaded. Also Krita updated to 5.1.1 or something. Which hopefully fixed some junky stuff.

[luvithdrevis]

I was just looking for a tutorial on the basic controls and features of Krita's animation, so I can even understand what I'm clicking. But not only I got that, but also more into the exactly stuff I'm looking for to start learning! This is PERFECT! Thank you so much!

[RocketpinionJr]

Thank you so much for this! I watched the original one from 4 years ago but I noticed some features had changed. I've been experimenting with krita a little bit recently and im so excited to start animation!!

[anastasiaraelajynn]

Really excited to figure out if Krita is right for me. I haven't really gotten used to it, but I think just the switch in general to digital art is hard, let alone animation. Hoping to learn so I can make animatics for fun ideas in the works.

[NatyCupcake]

This video is absolutely a LIFESAVER! I plan on starting frame-by-frame animations, and you're making it look so easy! Thank you so much Jesse! <3

[minimonster]

You are such a great teacher! I had watched your original video and came back for the update, and it's just as informative as ever! Thank you for being awesome. :)

[KrazeeKoolStuff]

Your tutorial is very clear and well-paced: the steps are explained and shown precisely. You’re an amazing teacher! Thanks for sharing!

[SykoMuffin]

LOL I grew up on FlipNote DS and am trying to get serious about trying animation. It's always been a passion of mine. Thanks for the epic tutorial!

[Cemhta]

This tutorial was completely amazing, thanks for making it. I love krita with all my heart and SOUL and I love the animation feature they are slowly improving though it has many flaws. I had no idea they added tweening to their animation feature, I hope they get rid of those bugs soon ^^

[abitedyslexic]

Tysm for the updated video! Krita changed a lot of things, and the more popular videos of Krita have a lot of outdated stuff that made it a little tricky to animate!
Tysm once again!