Clip Studio Paint EX is a program for digital drawing, illustration, manga, comics, animation and concept art. It doesn’t matter whether you draw manga, concept art, illustrations or create new characters — the program adapts to your needs.

Clip Studio Paint includes an extensive library of brushes, textures and materials that can be customized and downloaded from the official Clip Studio Assets resource store. The brush system allows you to create unique textures and effects, simulating work with traditional materials such as watercolor, oil or pencil. Realistic imitation of pressure and angle of the pen helps to achieve precision in drawing, especially when using a graphics tablet.

The application also has a set of tools for creating frame-by-frame animation with a high degree of detail. A convenient timeline allows you to manage layers, keyframes and intervals between them. The onion skinning function is also available, providing simultaneous visibility of previous and subsequent frames, which helps to achieve smoothness and precision of movements. Animation can be exported to GIF, MP4 or as a set of images.

Popular file formats such as PSD, PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF and others are supported. You can import and use 3D objects as auxiliary elements for building complex compositions or posing characters. Moreover, Clip Studio Paint can import and export layers, which can be useful in professional projects. The CSP format used by the application itself saves all data on layers, settings and materials without losing details and progress in work.

The system of modules in the application allows you to choose the necessary functionality depending on the tasks. For example, the comic book mode includes panels for creating pages, storyboards and adding text elements with various fonts and styles. For animation, there are tools for frame-by-frame rendering and working with the timeline. Thanks to the flexibility of the interface, users can customize the arrangement of windows and panels to optimize their work process.

Advantages

  • Professional set of tools for creating manga and comics.
  • Flexibility in customizing tools and interface.
  • Support for 3D models.
  • Compatibility with PSD
  • A large set of ready-made brushes, as well as templates.
  • Support for working with tablets and pressure sensitivity.
  • Ability to create animation.