How to Animate in KRITA for Beginners!

🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction to Krita
0:31 - Setting up a file
1:19 - Switching to animation workspace
2:22 - Navigating the timeline
3:23 - Onion skins
4:58 - Forward and back keys
5:16 - Moving frames around
5:58 - Removing and duplicating frames
6:45 - Drop key frames
7:14 - Onion skin settings
8:17 - Importing audio
8:27 - Zooming in and out
8:42 - Adjusting frame rate
9:11 - Auto frames
10:18 - Exporting an animation

🖤 Free Digital Art Resources & Goodies

😎 Save $10 off our Beginner Digital Art Course with promo code: ARTNERDS10

🎨 Try a Virtual Art Class (2 for 1 promo for new students!)

✏️ Learn some serious art skills — LIVE in our online classroom:

💪 Sharpen your art skills with personalized critiques to create a winning portfolio!

🍎 Browse our Art Resources for Teachers:

🥰 Support the Winged Canvas team on Patreon

🤩 Support the channel by becoming a member:

💕 Make a donation to support Winged Canvas and free art education

💡 Subscribe for more art tutorials, tips, and art resources

🤓 Join our Art Nerd community

Winged Canvas is an online art school based in Canada specializing in virtual art programs. We are known for our Art Mentorship program and quirky art nerd culture. Our instructors are professional artists and designers with a passion for teaching and nurturing creativity, sharing our artistic skill sets and industry experience with others.

Music credits:
New Horizon ー BGM DOVA-SYNDROME

Artist software used:

[Wingedcanvas]

🔎Explore the world of animation further in our Animation class!

[themegayoutuber]

WAIT- YOU CAN ADD AUDIO?! I- I'VE NEEDED THAT FOR SO LONG AND IT'S BEEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME THE WHOLE TIME😭

[nikoisdead]

Just wanted to share a little tip regarding the audio part.
I don't know if it was just me, but krita sometimes doesn't take mp3, so in that case you need to convert your audio file into a WAV file. That's gonna make it work for sure [=

[slamotte]

Tip: The HOLD FRAMES option in the right click menu allows you to choose how long to hold a frame/frames. Say you drew in 1s and want to switch to 2s, you select the frames you want to extend or space out, select the "insert multiple hold frames" option and type in number of frames to hold (in this case 2) then all the frames you selected with skip the number of frames specified :). Instead of spacing each frame individually you can do it in one go.

[North_North_West]

Thanks, this was super helpful! I've always found animating on Krita really intimidating and difficult, but after watching this video and following along, it's starting to get easier!

[sarahdelgado]

Them: You can animate in Krita.
Me: [spill drink from mouth] Pardon?!

[Rushda]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR

[yampolskie]

Thank you! Finally- I was so confused with the Krita Animation UI and process. It was like a culture shock as I used to animate with Photoshop. But I love Krita coz it's free. Cheers!

[Aurum_impling]

I've grabbed Krita a few times (and again, recently) for the purpose of animating, since I'd heard from others that it was one of the best options art software had to offer; I never could figure out how to get it to work though, so this video is a massive help! Thank you for sharing, Winged Canvas!- <3

[vansprinkes]

I love using Krita, it truly is an amazing free program

[Aiodiam]

Love this. Tried animation paper first, and it was really simple and straight forward but I missed having the tools and controls that I had in Krita for creating still images. So happy to see that it works so well for animation too

[Purplethingyt]

Oh my God thank you for covering animating in krita! Hopefully we can get a krita series!

[dw]

Thank you for this ! Right to the point! For my ADHD mind you have the best voice for teaching and comprehension as well as the proper pacing for me to grab onto what I am learning. Thank you for being a great teacher !!!

[tamkingshorts]

I'm in the process of migrating to Krita from Photoshop (for budget reasons), and this video was super helpful. Thanks for the concise and informative tutorial!

[holly_ghostcat]

Thanks for this! I love krita and am finally getting around to animating in it!

[arthurnovais]

I don't have words to describe how you helped me, I've searched 100 tutorials and your vídeo is the only one I understood! Really, thank you so much 🤩😍👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[justrosy]

Could you please update this? There have been several changes to how Krita handles the onion wrapper and the frames. That made it difficult to follow this exactly.

[maeflower]

I'm just new to digital art and animation and I found krita really interesting.
And I'm thankful that you explained the animation really well since I plan to practice basic animation in krita.

[Dentalfairyfloss]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I STRUGGLE WITH WORKING MY WAY AROUND KRITA ALL THE TIME

[everythingisawesomenot]

amazing video, just wanted to learn basic animation techniques and this was perfect. 10/10