Hi Thera,

I am sorry to hear about that - I hope he starts to feel better!

Take your time, of course. The time and effort you guys voluntarily put into Krita is amazing so I am appreciative of all of the help so far. Any troubleshooting or updates as they come along would be greatly appreciated as this issue has been plaguing me for a while now lol.

Thanks so much for your help thus far!

could you possibly share one of your files. One thing that seems odd is that it takes 6-10GB of data in RAM. usually an animation needs to get in the hundreds or thousands of frames before it starts consuming that much RAM. I did an animation for class a month ago and had about 2000 frames... It took about 8GB of RAM.

It seems to be exporting some files like you mention, so that almost tells me either memory is either running out, or something is wrong to where you are saving it to. Are you running out of disk space?

If it exported a few, that at least says FFMPEG is configured correctly and it is hooked up right in Krita.

Do the images that do export out look ok?

Hi Scott,

It happens with ALL animation files, not just one. I can literally create one with 20 or so empty frames and it will do the same thing and fail to export them.

The images that do export out seem to look fine.

Thanks,

I am having the exact same issue, though it is only exporting two frames. I know my laptop has some issues with RAM as it is now over 6 years old. I have tried everything suggested here to no avail.

Hello, same issue as OP Squiggly. When rendering an animation, no matter what settings are chosen, I get the small "Failed to render animation frames" error in the top left. I often end up with 3 or 4 individual frames as PNGs in the destination folder, but no log, and I can't get a proper render to save my life. My project is currently only 40 frames of hand-drawn animation. It's also worth mentioning that Krita itself has "Encountered an error" and crashed on me twice in my repeated attempts to render.

Hi triciac,

Which OS and which version of krita are you using?
How much RAM does your PC have?

What are you pointing to, in the Render Animation window, for FFMpeg? Can you post an image of your Render Animation window as you try to render?
(You can post an inline image here or you can post a link to Imgur or a similar service.)

Can you post a link to a Dropbox location (or similar service) to download your .kra file?

Hi, although this is an old thread, I had this exact problem and I found a fix. In case anybody finds it useful, i'll post my story.

1) I installed Krita on windows, made a little animation and rendered it as an MP4 and GIF. The save location I chose was the DESKTOP. No problems there;
2) The next day I made another animation and, not wanting to clutter my desktop, made a folder in my C directory (C:\KritaAnim) and I got the "Failed to render animation frames" error. Since I was able to render just the day before, I thought that it could be that Windows didn't like Krita trying to write in that location, so:
3) I made a folder with the same name in my DOCUMENTS folder (C:\Users\Gabriel\Documents\KritaAnim), and that solved the problem.

As I said, although this is an old thread, I hope this is useful to somebody, at some time.