The professional world is dominated by closed-source software like Toon Boom or TVPaint, but with the recent opening up of OpenToonz, I hope that free and open software will become more accepted.” But we’re not yet in a stage where professional animators actually know about Krita. The v3.0 release, Rempt says, will be “usable for short clips of hand-drawn animation. Still to come in 3.1 are integration with sound and export to movie formats. According to Rempt, four different people tried five different times to implement animation, “which shows it’s something people really want.” In the original planning, basic animation features were scheduled for v3.1, but they were ready for v3.0 after extensive work was done in 2015.Īnimation features for v3.0 include importing and exporting an image sequence, drag and dropping frames, and onion skinning (working on multiple frames at the same time). One of the major goals that developed organically is animation. “Right now,” Rempt says, “we’re getting people who ask whether it isn’t time to start improving the brush engines again next year, it might be time to spend some really focused time on them again.” Over time, the general dissatisfaction or demand for a feature increases, until a consensus is reached that it needs to be improved or rewritten. So, gradually, a sort of consensus about the priority of different feature requests arises, and we start asking people to do mockups and user experience designs.”Īnother way features become priorities is what Rempt calls the “organic” method. They join us at sprints, and they are always around on the #krita irc channel. And, of course, we have many artists in the development team.
“Usually it’s pretty clear from discussions that artists have on the chat channel or the forum, or even in our bug tracker, where the real problems are.
However, usually, that’s not how the project develops its roadmaps. Other times, a developer might want a feature for themselves. Sometimes, new users ask for something that is obscure or fits poorly with the other features. “Feature requests are a tough thing to get right,” Rempt observes. The campaign is thriving, having raised more than €11,500 (~$13,000) and a third of its goal in less than two days, so, during this pause, I talked with Krita maintainer Boudewijn Rempt about the introduction of animation, improved text tools, and revision of vector graphics – three of the major features that will be ready in version 3.0 when it is released early next month. Currently, it is about to release version 3.0 but has delayed to run a crowdfunding campaign to add ambitious last-minute features. Krita is well-known for having evolved from a toy to a tool for professional artists.
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