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Character Art

Draw character illustrations with realistic brushes. Efficiently color and create poses as well.

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Comics, Manga & Webtoons

All you need to create webtoons and comics, including tools for paneling, speech bubbles, backgrounds, and perspective.

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Animation

Create everything from short GIFs to fully fledged animations. Clip Studio Paint is used by 2D animation studios worldwide.

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Concept Art

From storyboards to scenes involving multiple 3D models, bring your ideas for games and movies to life.

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Design

Suitable for creating designs and logos with vectors, CMYK support, and compatibility with Adobe products.

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Ver. 4.0 Feature Highlights

Improved finishing/processing features

  • Precisely control where to fix and where to transform with Puppet warp.
  • Quickly preview and compare multiple filters, effects, and color corrections. Extract line art and create camera lens-like blur effects.
  • More options when converting to lines and tones. Register presets for your preferred settings and create a vector layer for lines, drawn with the brush of your choice.

Enhanced 3D features

  • Paint on 3D primitives and 3D drawing figures.
  • Cast shadows from 3D objects onto other 3D objects.
  • STL file support for your 3D printing and CAD needs.
  • BVH file support so you can import motion data for pose reference.
  • VRM facial expression file support that lets you adjust facial expression details.

Improved tools and better usability

  • Snap on to vector layers, to rulers, and more when moving text or transforming objects.
  • Make a lasso selection by snapping to your current layer or reference layer.
  • Studio Mode now features a Tool Sliders palette.
  • Improved Tool and Sub Tool palettes. Easily locate your frequently used tools and order them at once.

Enhanced export features

  • Add a Noise pattern as a watermark to your work to protect it online.
  • Lighter timelapse files upon export.

Improved video and animation features

  • Apply palette colors to your timeline, customize file naming settings, and other features professional animators have requested.
  • Import sound from video files as an audio layer, even on mobile.
  • Add subtitles and hand-drawn illustrations to filmed videos and export to post them online.

Features to make you a pro at Clip Studio Paint

  • New tutorial and hint feature on Simple Mode for tablets.