Used by 7 million creators
CLIP STUDIO PAINT, the leading comic and manga creation software worldwide developed by Celsys Inc., is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish illustrations, comics, manga and animations. Invigorate your artwork using realistic feeling sketching pencils and inking pens, fully customizable brushes and raster and vector colors. Easily express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons. Animate your drawings and bring them to life. CLIP STUDIO PAINT helps you draw digital art from start to finish!
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Key benefits for Animation
PENS, PENCILS, & BRUSHES
Create original sketches using your mouse or draw naturally with a pen tablet. Draw using a suite of familiar tools including pens, pencils, brushes and selection tools. With vector mapping technology and smart pen pressure sensing, CLIP STUDIO PAINT gives you incredible sensation of drawing on paper.
COLORING
Powerful coloring tools make CLIP STUDIO PAINT your all-in-one manga and comic creation solution. Choose from an abundance of preset colors, create custom color sets or blend colors naturally as if you were mixing them with your own fingers using the color blend options.
FRAME-BY-FRAME ANIMATION
Draw each frame and have precise control of your animation. With frame-by-frame animation you can bring your characters to life
TIMELINE
Set the display order and speed in the timeline. You can play your animation immediately and check the actual motion.
LIGHT TABLE & CENTERFOLD
You can register your pictures to a light table and refer to them while drawing. Simply press a key on the keyboard to check the motion between the pictures, just like flipping through paper drawings.
ONION SKIN
You can check your animation by viewing the surrounding pictures as translucent layers. Various settings can be specified, such as the number of pictures to be displayed and the color in which they are displayed.
LOAD MOVIES & CLIP FILES
Movies and files in CLIP STUDIO PAINT format can be loaded as file objects and used as part of your animation or as a reference for drawing.
LOTS OF EXPORT OPTIONS
Export a movie in avi format (when using the Windows version) or QuickTime format (when using the Mac OS X version). You can then post it on a video site. You can export your work as a series of still images. These can be posted on illustration sites or social media. Export your work as an animated GIF and post it on social media.
TEMPLATES
You can customize settings for your work and workflow, such as the resolution and size of the cel and the layer structure, then register those settings as a template to be used again.
COMPARE CLIP STUDIO PRODUCTS
| better | best | |
| Features | Clip Studio Paint Pro |
Clip Studio Paint Ex |
| Draw comics, manga and illustrations in full color | ||
| Comic book creation with multiple pages | ||
| Export of multiple pages | ||
| Natural drawing and brush engine | ||
| Frame-by-frame animation (cel animation) support | 24 Frames | Unlimited Frames |
| Conversion of 3D objects into 2D line and tones | ||
| Reference layers | ||
| 3D pose creation with Clip Studio Paint 3D models | ||
| Customizable full color brush creation | ||
| Review and edit saved back ups | ||
| Rulers - symmetry, perspective, focus, curves, parallel lines, ellipses, concentric circles and more | ||
| Comic book panel creation | ||
| Word balloon creation | ||
| Materials library with hundreds of content items (3D objects, tones, patterns, pre-built comic panels, word balloons & effects) | ||
| Wacom tablet support and pressure sensitivity | ||
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Buy Digital $49.99 | Buy Digital $219 |
| UPGRADE FROM PRO TO EX | Buy Digital $169 |
"CLIP STUDIO is the absolute best product for anyone that is an artist or aspiring artist. It is by far the most intuitive application made with artists in mind… whether you're comic book artists, manga creator, illustrator, painter, doodler, concept artist, storyboard artist or even an animator, CLIP STUDIO is the tool for you!"
Doug Hills Comic Artist/Storyboard Artist/Concept Artist/Educator/Author of Manga Studio for Dummies.