Re:Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant
by danShumway on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:12PM
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Nice! Krita is one of the Open Source art tools that I'm really bullish on right now.
I don't think it's at the same level of quality as its commercial competition yet, but it's not so bad, and it's getting progressively better, and it has a really nice community, and it's being pushed forward by actual artists.
Absent the way its growing, I might not be so bullish, but I feel pretty optimistic about Krita's future -- enough that I'm betting on it internally for games and art projects that I make, spending time to make sure I really understand its interface, donating money, thinking about ways to integrate it into other workflows -- much more than I'm betting on tools like MyPaint. Optimistic enough that I'm willing to make a full switch over to it instead of hopping into Windows or wrestling with Wine to get Clip Studio working.
Grants like this are great news, both because the influx of money is important, and because increased industry focus is good for pushing projects like this in the direction of being the kind of stable software that you can rely on industrially. The thing to be really optimistic about with Krita is that the right categories of people are betting on it and supporting it.
Krita is usable right now for what I need, some annoyances aside, and I think it's very possible that it could end up being just flat out better than its competition in the future. If any Open Source project is set up to follow Blender in the art world, it's Krita.
I don't think it's at the same level of quality as its commercial competition yet, but it's not so bad, and it's getting progressively better, and it has a really nice community, and it's being pushed forward by actual artists.
Absent the way its growing, I might not be so bullish, but I feel pretty optimistic about Krita's future -- enough that I'm betting on it internally for games and art projects that I make, spending time to make sure I really understand its interface, donating money, thinking about ways to integrate it into other workflows -- much more than I'm betting on tools like MyPaint. Optimistic enough that I'm willing to make a full switch over to it instead of hopping into Windows or wrestling with Wine to get Clip Studio working.
Grants like this are great news, both because the influx of money is important, and because increased industry focus is good for pushing projects like this in the direction of being the kind of stable software that you can rely on industrially. The thing to be really optimistic about with Krita is that the right categories of people are betting on it and supporting it.
Krita is usable right now for what I need, some annoyances aside, and I think it's very possible that it could end up being just flat out better than its competition in the future. If any Open Source project is set up to follow Blender in the art world, it's Krita.