Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

Mon Aug 27 14:30:39 UTC 2012

Hi there! I'm am so sorry for the delay! I was busy helping this cool guy (
http://rd3d.com/dtools/) port his tools for Linux and I only have so much
free time. :) again, sorry.

It is still quite hard to get people adopting a tool they've never used
before but for those in the company who are making the effort to launch
Krita instead of Gimp or Photoshop and in some instances Nuke or Mari, the
general consensus is that it's a great tool. The UI being so 'familiar' is
a great sale for us.

Initially I've mostly had 'surface level' feedback as people are not
pushing it to its limits yet. Mainly the UI seems to hang a little a behave
a little erratically at times when using the wacom. It's really hard
to pinpoint exactly what gives it this strange feeling. My opinion is that
it comes from dialogs flicking open in the wrong initial position when you
first open a palette for example.

To replicate:

-Open Krita
-Create any kind of project
-now click any of the buttons on the top bar. ie: "edit brush settings" or
"chose brush preset" or the color or gradients buttons.
-You will notice that, the first time you click any of those, a 'ghost'
window appears briefly (~0.2 second) and then the actual palette opens.
This only occurs once. Afterwards everything is fine.

It's not a big deal, but it is a little jarring and may be one of those
things that give a subconscious 'impression' of instability.

Also drag and drop may get a bit annoying with a wacom when selecting
layers. It seems that layers get 'grabbed' quite quickly when you're simply
trying to select it or activate it. Maybe a grab 'handle' to the right of
the layer could help with this?

We have been getting crashes here and there as well, but the artists seem
to have a hard time reporting things. instead they just move on with their
task using something else. It's an age old problem so I'm going to try and
see what I can do about that.

Also I think performance is really strange at work compared to my home
machine. At high bit depths Krita seems to struggle on my work machine,
however on my home machine it's a real pleasure to work with. I need to
investigate.

I've also been getting a couple of small UI requests that have popped up a
couple of times.

Tabs for different canvases instead of a whole new Krita UI from every
image. I also have to say I totally agree with that. It makes working on 10
different images or frames at the same time mush more manageable. Gimp and
Photoshop seem to have implemented this and I have to say that it's quite
great. My apologies if something like this is already being made or if it's
already in krita but I have not found the option.

A 'navigator' window like Photoshop and gimp. That top right thumbnail with
the zoom and the crop section. I know it seems a bit useless, but most
people don't know the navigation shortcuts for Krita initially, so a little
navigator would help a bit. It's one of those legacy habits
that Photoshop has burnt in all of our feeble minds I guess. :)

Sorry for the messy email. If you want clarification on any of this please
let me know. Also, please know that none of this is really pressing. We are
slowly picking it up and management is supporting the move. But it takes
time. People are not 'dabbing' around over there, we're under some pretty
tight deadlines and heavy pressure to do shots, so sometimes, even though
we'd like too, we just can't afford to take the risk to use something that
we are not 100% familiar with. However as time goes on, people start
realising what Krita can offer to help, whether it is from me suggesting it
to someone or the artists willingly opening it up during a few days of
quite time, it's slowly catching on.

Thank you again to everyone involved in Krita for this great project!

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Last Friday I ran a Krita demo at Digital Domain London which went
>> amazingly well.
>> The feedback from the artists was along the lines of: "Wow. I didn't
>> realise it was going to be THAT good".
>> It is possible that ourselves (DD london) and many others will be moving
>> to centos6 in the near future. Autodesk is providing support for Maya 2013
>> only for Centos6 and redhat6 and up now. So if we make sure the latest and
>> greatest Krita is in the centos6 repos, it will be super easy for
>> sys-admins to get it installed. Those are KDE4 distros so I think life will
>> be easier.
>>
>> The main questions I got from texture artists, matte painters and compers
>> were as follows:
>>
>> Q-Can we toggle the LUT display?
>> A- Yes in the preferences. (I put in a request on this list today to make
>> it a dockable tool)
>>
>> Q- Are there any automatic HDRI panorama creation tools
>> A- No, there are other applications for this. (However the Krita project
>> might be able to leverage other open source projects to implement something
>> like this. http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ )
>>
>> Q- Does Krita have a scripting language, command line interface or python
>> api?
>> A- I replied that I was not sure. I knew Krita had a scripting feature in
>> previous version but I cannot find it in 2.4. Actions are supported so that
>> can replace (partly) this function. I was not sure about any sort of python
>> api or anything like this. So I replied that I was going to ask you guys.
>>
>> Q- Does Krita support 3rd party filter/plugin formats?
>> A- I don't know. I will ask the team what kind of filter format Krita
>> supports.
>>
>> Q- Does Krita do 3D painting?
>> A- No. Krita is not made to replace Mari. It is mainly a photoshop
>> replacement on Linux to fill the '2D painting' gap our industry has been
>> suffering from for years.
>>
>> Q- Is there an automatic texture tiling tool similar to gimp's texturize<http://gimp-texturize.sourceforge.net/>
>> ?
>> A- Not that I know of, I will ask the Krita team.
>>
>> Q- Can Krita import frame sequences?
>> A- Not right now. It could be an interesting Option to add. I will talk
>> to the team about it.
>>
>> All of our Artists and TDs were very impressed. They would like to say a
>> big thank you to the Krita team for moving in to this territory and have
>> pledged to help you trouble-shoot, improve and push Krita forward with
>> useful feedback and bug reports, all of which will be going through myself.
>>
>
> Has been quite some time since the demo. I haven't heard any feedback so
> far. How it did work out?
>
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