Hello everybody.

After near a month I have finished short animation named "The Ring" made with Krita (also used kdenlive).

Here is preview:


You can see 720p ogg video here

Also you can visit my blog

The work is under CC-BY-SA and I will publish all source materials soon.

Hello Torio,

THANKS a lot indeed for your nice video

At first, I had some problems with it due, probably, to its format (.ogv).
Vlc media player(v. 1.1.8 kept - on Windows xp) kept crashing on me which is really unusual for this player.
I suppose this is due to some bug in the ffmpeg engine.
I recall having the same problem with other software that use it (e.g. Openshot on Ubuntu).
In the end, through Firefox, I watched your video

I was very curious about it.
Usually you get such videos done with Blender and I have never thought about the couple Krita - Kdenlive

Just some questions out of curiosity.

Did it really take you a month to finish it?

Why did you choose Krita (instead of other softwares)?

Krita was stable enough for you (I don't recall having read any bug report from you lately)?

Best regards,

S. Grosso

We're going to screen it at the Calligra sprint as soon as we've got it downloaded. For over thirty calligra hackers!

Thanks for comment.

One of my points while work was to make first video as fast as possible. I started to draw some concept graphics on February 28 and finally encoded animation on March 31. I used 6 fps and so there was about 450 frames finally. If I had more free time, I would have made it faster or better.

And I used Krita because of several reasons:

• I don't have much experience in Blender and so I prefer to use 2d tools.
  
• I think that Krita is really the most promising free drawing application. So I want to use it for all drawings. And I really don't want to combine Krita with some incompatible animation software like Pencil (and it hasn't sketch brush also ).
  
• I also have an idea that it will be very good to have full 2d animation suite based on Krita and Karbon, because I think that existing free 2d-animation software is not ready for making big animation (and this is my final goal). May be I will try to code some tools making animation with Krita & Karbon easier, if I will have time during working on next animation.
  
• I didn't use Karbon for this animation because I want to make animation faster, but with Karbon I will need to deal with some stability and usability problems when using vector graphics in Krita.

Also Krita 2.3 was stable enough while not using vector graphics. So I will probably send bug reports when start vector animation (may be even with git version).

About video format. I have tried and it worked fine in vlc on linux, so I wasn't expecting any problems with vlc. Anyway there is also h264 version: http://ompldr.org/vODJrMw. May be it will work better.

Interesting work!
Of course it could be better, but animating without a (virtual) light-table to check animation is quite hard (you need to plan everything first using a precise timing Xsheet to get good result.. and this is not a beginner task.)

I agree a Calligra application for drawing 2d animation using Krita and Karbon tools would be awesome!
Maybe one day…

ps: I didn't have any issues to read the video, except changing the extension as it downloaded as a .htm file.

I love it Cool drawing style.

After watching the video, I wonder if sounds are also CC:BY-SA, since I think those could be useful for some video games (thinking about http://opengameart.org/ ).

Almost all sounds are from freesounds.org, so they are under CC Sampling+ license. The whole soundtrack is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Links to original sounds:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=18625
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=26373
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=21409
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=43751

So I released animation sources, you can download them here. And now I'm working on next animation which I hope to release until June.

PS: Thanks all for comments and especially for demonstrating my video.