Krita wins Epic MegaGrant
Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
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The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.1.2
Updated: Open-source painting app gets early support for audio in the new 2D animation toolset.
Saturday, February 11th, 2017
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.0
Open-source digital paint package gets cool new 2D animation toolset, with export to commercial apps.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Krita Foundation releases Krita Animation Edition Beta
Try out the new animation features and support for very large canvases in the open-source painting tool.
Friday, November 27th, 2015
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 2.9.7
Open-source paint tool gets better PSD support, new tangent normal brush engine to paint normal maps.
Friday, September 4th, 2015
Andrew Hazelden releases RocketComp for Maya
Handy new plugin automatically builds a compositing project from render output in 10 leading 2D apps.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
Krita 2.9.4 ships
New update to the open-source painting app adds Photoshop-style layer styles, boosts performance.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Back the Krita Foundation's new Kickstarter campaign
€20,000 funding drive aims to make the open-source paint tool 'faster than Photoshop' on large images.
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Krita team releases stable beta of Krita 2.9
Open source paint app gets new Liquify tool, new colour selector, better PSD and RAW file handling.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Krita 2.8 brings open-source paint tool to Windows users
Updated: Now with an early build for OS X, too. Back it on Kickstarter to speed up Mac development.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Krita 2.7 released
Open-source paint app continues to evolve in CG-friendly directions with new Offset tool for tileable textures.
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Krita 2.6 adds support for OpenColorIO, layered PSDs
Open-source paint tool will 'soon be the standard' for 2D work in VFX on Linux, says ex-Digital Domain TD.
Friday, February 8th, 2013