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Quick Sigma doodle

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Reblog if you're a perverted woman with dubious motives

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Simple Variant Sigma Design

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Need to look like a cute woman

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Decided to hop on a trend I kept seeing

Krug

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you're cute and it's tuesday

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Congrats mutual, you found it. I will now go and drink water and watch some more yuri

The urge to comment something strange under a mutuals post

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The urge to comment something strange under a mutuals post

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I have to really decide whether I wanna do art fight and try doing small animations for it or just keep making small animations on my own.

On one hand: being that one insane mf that creates animations during art fight would be cool af

On the other hand: I'm never really good at keeping up with art fight and animating adds a whole other depth of time consuming and stressful.

On the other other hand: doing animations for art fight is an incredible way to not only get out of my comfort zone; but also an incredible way to get used to animating figures I'm not used to (I love Sigma as the perfect self expression vessel but let's get real: drawing a hard surface crt head all the time is not doing me favours with drawing humanoid heads or other heads)

There's also factoring in that I'm using toon boom while I decide what to do in terms of animation software. Put this way:

I love Krita. Krita has been my go-to for art for the whole time I've done digital and my go-to for animation for the most part.

HOWEVER.

I cannot deny that Krita has its drawbacks with animation.

I know that animation was initially a plugin you could only get on Linux and then later was properly introduced into Krita officially. But there's some stuff that makes it a chore past the initial roughs and basic animation. These are my problems:

Vector tools

Krita's vector tools (based on the version I use which is admittedly a tinge outdated) aren't fantastic. Krita's key strength is raster tools I think. Painting in Krita is really nice. A lack of vector tools would normally not bother me. Hell even when I moved from flash/animate to Krita animation it still didn't too much. I missed the ability to easily fill drawings cause it saves a lot of time, but outside that I was okay. However. If you've ever used toon boom or have a basic understanding on how those tools work: they absolutely leave Krita in the dust in terms of animating. The ability to modify your strokes (because they are vector lines) and the ability to easily cut off unwanted portions of strokes is absolutely INSANE. The amount of accumulated time saved makes it hard to justify using Krita at all for animation. Which sucks cause there's some stuff I genuinely prefer with Krita but the difference is insane. I really hope in the future Krita revisits vector based drawing specifically for animation as it truly makes a universe of difference.

Colouring tools

Because Krita is not strong with vector tools colouring also takes time for lined animations. There is the colorize layer/filter thingy but I'll be real; I've used it like 2-3 times and each time it was more worthwhile to colour something myself since it takes a while to process and isn't exactly the best. I mean I'm sure it's great in terms of raster colouring but it pales in comparison to how simple colouring in a vector drawing is. On top of that there's palettes. Toon boom allows you to have colours set that you can change at anytime and these changes will reflect across the entire animation. You technically can achieve the same effect in Krita but you have to add a filter mask for HSV and sure it "works" but it's a bit clunky and definitely adds clutter and also means of a colour is the same across layers you have to manually set both instead of just setting something once. On top of that, it requires you to already have that in mind when initially colouring vs just slapping colours on and adjusting whenever.

Onion skinning

This is simple and quick: in Krita you can set the onion skin colour and how many frames it applies to. However how you set this is by clicking on a widget dedicated specifically to the onion skinning. Unlike flash/animate and toon boom, you do not get a little thing on the timeline that allows you to quickly adjust the onion skinning. It is small but paired with everything else, it does add to things unfortunately.

And honestly, all of this is kind of a shame because Krita could really capitalise on this. As it stands; free animation software is better than it used to be, but still is rough the moment you compare anything to a professional tool. Open toonz is neat but I found to be quite laggy the further things go on (same with Tahoma2D), Pencil2D can't really even compete if I'm honest, which kinda leaves Krita and potentially Blender (which I haven't really gotten behind for 2D animation or hybrid animation cause the idea feels backwards in my head but I do want to try one day).

Toon boom used to have a standalone version you can buy but now it's purely subscription based, and flash/animate would of been a fine middle ground if it weren't for the fact that it's Adobe AND it's subscription based

Anyways I kinda rambled instead of talking about the one thing I wanted to but the TL;DR is:

I am undecided whether I animate more solo stuff or do art fight or do animated art fight stuff

I love Krita but I wish it's animation tools got a bump

Toon boom is incredible with 2D animation but the industry is filled with subscription models I fucking hate

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BLEHHHH

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Enemies to girlfriends <3

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A shield wall would literally work what the hell are the horses archers gonna do, trample the shields and get piked? Run around until they get shot by archers behind the shield wall?

There are Roman soldiers who described men having their shields nailed to their ribcages by parthian horse archers.

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in a moment, everything can change

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okay but the American education system literally didn't tell us how to defend against horse archers

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Sigma doing the Kita Ikuyo dance (Song is doodle by Zachz Winner)

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I will finish this fucking animation I am working on. It is an 8 frame loop.