Quick OpenToonz test

Certainly runs better on the new Linux machine than on the Windows 7. Though if a program makes a 32GB RAM 12-core CPU computer choke, even a little, then it's the program that's wrong lol. (But now I know to shrink a 1080p animatic video to something small 'cause that's what was causing the slowdown in spots.)

Flatpak permissions etc. are weird and I ended up just plonking the ffmpeg binary build in the home folder just to export this. Further investigation required, but now I'm doing a scene for PrimatePunk's AOK in OpenToonz as a test.

I swear the functionality of a program's animation features are inversely proportional to the quality of the brush engine. Ergo, please could some FOSS wizard team put Krita's brush engine in OpenToonz, or OpenToonz's X-sheet and modular .tif format frames system into Krita? And of course all the industry standards are in a total rut with no way out in regards to their interface/brushes (Adobe/Toon Boom...). The nicest paint programs have the animation features effectively tacked on, and animation programs' brushes are all stuck in the early 2000s.

Some point I'm going to have to test these new programs I'm messing with in a proper project to ascertain their practical use and resilience. I have a few mini <30 second cartoon ideas if I still like them, and may try switching from traditional paper to OpenToonz (but both put through Krita and Natron) halfway through the cartoon, to find limits in any combination of working methods.

Also, I'm not really a FOSS nut, even if I'm migrating to Linux and using these open-source programs; I'm just that disillusioned with the state of industry software and their practices now. I'm happy with closed-source REAPER and Flash MX etc. 'cause they do the job, and are fairly predictable. But I refuse to move to Windows 10 simply because it delays the inevitable with Windows 11, by which point I'd be sufficiently softened up for by using 10. (I'm OK using Windows 10 for my music computer 'cause it's offline, has no taskbar, and immediately opens REAPER. I almost never have to see the Windows 10iness).

What a technical palaver. It's all a means to an end, and it stresses me out whenever I have to do an upgrade like this. Flash MX runs fabulously via WINE, except the tablet pressure data doesn't bridge through WINE (even though Flash itself recognises the tablet by displaying the pressure button option). Bugger! Still I have the (now offline) Windows 7 machine and the tablet plugged into a KVM switch so I can use Flash and Clip Studio Paint as God intended. I don't accept formatting an old trusted system anymore - lost too much work that way.