The software also includes its own customisable 3D figure to use as a guide when drawing characters, with a range of preset poses to choose from.Ī production-ready animation toolset at a competitive price It comes with a range of readymade halftone effects, speech bubbles and speed lines, plus a range of stock backgrounds for common manga scenes. Pen strokes drawn using a graphics tablet are saved in vector format, meaning they remain fully editable and the software has an automatic correction setting to smooth out hand-drawn lines. Celsys has released Clip Studio Paint 1.5.4, a free update that adds a new toolset for creating animation in the popular digital painting software, including a timeline, virtual light box and onion skinning.Īs far as we can tell as non-Japanese-speakers, the animation toolset was announced, and possibly released, in Japan last year, but this is the first time it has appeared in the English-language edition of the software.Ī versatile digital paint tool geared towards producing mangaĬlip Studio Paint – also known as Manga Studio in the version released by Smith Micro in the West – is a digital painting tool geared towards the production of manga, with a toolset more tailored to a traditional comic production workflow (pencilling, inking, colouring, lettering) than applications like Photoshop or Painter.

Animation in clip studio paint