Indeed, the idea of Krita is very simple - any layer can be a stream of frames while maintaining the overlay mode, transparency, and layer style. I agree with AhabGreybeard, the best solution would be to disassemble all frames into composite png images, sort them by their roles (line, shadow, background) and import each role as animated layers. When you’ve done all six frames like that, you’ll have a six frame animated layer in krita and you can delete the source layers and their group. You’ve just made frame-1 of the animated layer in krita. Then drag that keyframe onto frame-1 of the destination layer. Then, for second frame static image layer of the source group, right-click on its frame-0 on the Timeline and click Create Duplicate Frame to make it animated with a keyframe on frame-0. You’ve just made frame-0 of the destination animated layer in krita. That will make the destination layer an animated layer with a keyframe at frame-0 Then, on the Timeline, drag that keyframe onto frame-0 of the destination layer. That is how you get a static image into ‘animation space’. That will convert it into an animated layer with a single keyframe at frame-0. On the Timeline, for the static image layer of the first frame of the source group, right-click on frame-0 and click Create Duplicate Frame. When a layer is displayed in the Timeline, you can click on the small pin icon to pin/unpin it from the Timeline.]Īnyway … Make a new layer, intended to be an animated layer in krita for the purpose of receiving the individual static images from a particular group, then give it a meaningful name. You can pin individual layers to the Timeline in the Layers docker by right-click then ‘Pin to Timeline’. It would be a good idea to enable that so that you can see all the layers in the Timeline. In Settings → Configure Krita → General → Miscellaneous, there’s an option box for ‘Automatically pin new layers to timeline’. That is probably the layer you’ve selected somewhere in the Layers docker. [On your Timeline, you only have one layer displayed. So, the question is, how do you get a static image into an animated layer? Within and between animated layers and their frames, you can do copy/cut/paste/drag and all sorts of things. To do it manually, you have to realise that you can’t use the normal copy/paste techniques to move images between ‘static’ layers and ‘animated’ layers. You can do that with this one if you like, to avoid the tedium of manual conversion. That will be easy to manipulate into a krita animation.įor a longer animation it would be better to render out each of the individual animated folders from CSP to a stored image sequence and then bring them into krita using File → Import Animation Frames to give an animated layer in krita.

Two groups of six images and a static background. It looks like you have the individual animated frames of CSP as groups of static images in krita. In CSP it can be done by dragging a layer you drew outside of the folder into it and use “specify layer” to assign it to a specific frame of the animation Imgur Krita from what I learned handles it this way every layer is its own animation folder which is better in some regards but from that it gives the impression id have to scrap my entire file and redraw every layer and frame manually but is there a way of taking doing it without redrawing. The way CSP handles this is animation folders, creating little timelines each one on top of each other, foreground> effects> line art> color> shading> background. Hi, in a comment from another post, I mentioned I’ve been a CSP only artist for about 6-7 years, and I’m looking into transitioning over to Krita in light on the new CSP licensing system, I currently know how to do use Photoshop and used to use Krita about 7 years ago, so I’m a little familiar with the software, but there are some major differences between the two have that I need to re learn, in another thread I was shared how differently Krita and CSP handle animation, and want to try and migrate an existing animation file I made CSP and migrate it over to Krita as a good way to understand these differences.

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