Mounamnamat Médias Teaches Animation using Krita

Published    29th August, 2019

Amine Sossi Alaoui and Sonia Didier write to tell us about their experience teaching children 2D animation using Krita, with some very cool results:

We’re a Moroccan animation studio, created 6 months ago and based in Rabat, Morocco. Before that we worked in animation studios in France during 10 years. Our goal now is to develop animation industry in Morocco and Africa. It’s a long way to go, and for the moment, we’re just beginning with 2d animation. Krita is a great tool for that, and we’re very happy to use it, and to share the knowledge we have about it.

So, this summer, we wanted children to learn about 2D animation, so we created an one-week animation course for children from 8 to 14 years old. It was 2 hours per day during 5 days, for a group of 8 to 12 children. The goal was to create an one-minute animated shortfilm in 2D, from the writing of the story, storyboard, background, animation, colorisation and compositing.

For that we chose to use Krita (and Shotcut for the final compositing and sound). It’s great software, very complete and fun to work with. And as it’s free, we’re sure that the children could use it at home if they like, to make their own projects.

Finally, four groups of children have worked on Krita this summer, and the result is on Youtube for anyone to watch on our youtube channel. Here are the first three films; the fourth film is not yet on youtube. Should be shortly, when it’s finalized.

We hope you’ll all like it !

Now we hope that we’ll have others projects with Krita, and we’ll be happy
to share them with you.