Animation isn't easy, by any means it's a complex process requiring patience and dedication, but the good news is open source supplies plenty of high-quality animation tools. There are lots of different kinds of animation: hand-drawn, stop motion, cut-out, 3D, rotoscoping, pixilation, machinima, ASCII, and probably more.
Krita supports full color management through LCMS for ICC and OpenColor IO for EXR, allowing you to incorporate Krita into your existing color management pipeline.
There are also three different views on how to see the layers.
Combine, order, and flatten layers to help your artwork stay organized. In addition to painting, Krita comes with vector, filter, group, and file layers. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow.
It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry.
Krita is the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita Desktop is a free an open source painting application.