Animate your vision

Create animations fluidly and naturally

Making animations requires a comfortable creative experience. Clip Studio Paint is loved by 2D animation studios around the world for its natural and smooth drawing feel and responsiveness.

Clip Studio Paint in animation studios

Brushes for drawing exactly as you imagine

Clip Studio Paint brushes accurately capture the pressure and movement of your pen for expressive results in your animation.

Expression to match your imagination

Wendy Grieb uses Clip Studio Paint on the Microsoft Surface Studio to express every nuance of the pen, from tilt to stoke direction. Experience for yourself to create your vision exactly as you want it.

Adjust lines while retaining a hand-drawn feel

Edit lines drawn with your favorite pens and brushes while preserving their original look with vector layers. Save the time spent redrawing and freely adjust the line thickness and shape later. Vector layers are perfect for creating a wide variety of projects, from short GIFs to full-scale animations.

All your animation needs in one program

From still images to camerawork to audio tracks, complete your entire animation process in just one app. Take your own animation studio with you wherever you go.

Smart features for smooth animation

Create your animation in flipbook style! Take advantage of the light table and onion-skin features to view adjacent frames and create even smoother animations.

Simple timeline interface

Easily rearrange or adjust the speed of animation cels in the timeline palette. In an industry-standard format, you’ll find the interface simple to understand whether you’re a first-time animator or seasoned in traditional techniques.

Import and export audio

Import your music, sound effects, or dialogue, then export your animation complete with sound. Clip Studio Paint is compatible with 8‑bit and 16‑bit uncompressed wav files, MP3 files, and Ogg files.

Camerawork for dynamic animations

Create dynamic scenes for your animations by combining zoom, rotations, and camera effects that move along a curve. It’s easy to work on your animations while checking the camera movement.

Export formats perfect for your project

From short GIF animations for sharing on social media to professional-quality full length animations created with Clip Studio Paint EX, you can export your work to suit any purpose. Enjoy creating whatever you like!

Export as an image sequence

Export frames of the entire animation as a flattened image sequence, for complete control over scale and framerate.
*Available formats: PNG, BMP, JPEG, Targa, TIFF

How to create moving illustrations

Practicing Short Animation

A smarter fill tool for speedy coloring

You can count on our special fill tool when you need speed and accuracy for flat colors! Able to fill line art with small gaps and capture tiny unfilled areas, it’s the perfect assistant for coloring your art.

Auto-shading technology

Auto-generate natural-looking shadows from lineart and filled areas and then fine-tune them by adjusting the position and angle of the light source and setting the shadow’s color.

Change poses without redrawing

With Puppet Warp, you can adjust only the parts you want to move naturally, just as if you were moving a puppet. Work more efficiently by creating in-betweens and fine-tune poses without having to redraw them.

Customizable 3D figures with new AI posing

Place 3D drawing figures and head models directly onto the canvas. You can also attach props to your 3D model like hats and shoes, to instantly create a reference close to your character design. Customizable body shapes and camera angles make it even more ideal to reference. Bring poses to life with the help of the pose scanner that reads poses from photos and the hand scanner that mimics the pose of your hand with a camera.

Save time on repetitive actions

Instantly carry out repetitive actions like erasing your drafts or adjusting colors in one click with Auto Actions. Simply register the Auto Action once, and save your time, over and over.

Create and share templates

Save your paper settings as a template to use over and over again! No more wasting time setting up your paper size or resolution, and you can easily share your template with your team.

Make the most of your device capabilities

Work on high-resolution files with up to 10,000 layers without worry! With 64‑bit OS and multi-core processor support, Clip Studio Paint makes the most of your device’s capability, and the layer folder feature lets you manage layer-heavy files with ease.

A workspace for every process

Register multiple workplace layouts to instantly switch between different palette arrangements. With this feature, you can create customized workspaces ideal for each step of your workflow.

Easily create animations for the first time

Use onion skin even in Simple Mode to easily create animations.

Work more comfortably with a pen tablet

Use the Clip Studio Tabmate to operate the app with a push of a button, so you never have to put your pen down when drawing. Now with iPad and iOS support! (Tabmate sold separately)
Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS.

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Trusted by the World’s Leading Brands

As well as being bundled with the world’s bestselling pen tablets from Wacom, Clip Studio Paint is pre-loaded on the latest Tab S series Galaxy Android tablets available worldwide, making it the first choice for getting started with digital art.

Join a worldwide community

Connect with creators from around the world through our online services in seven languages. Discover new features with official tutorials on “TIPS,” or swap advice with others on our Q&A forum “ASK”.

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Whether you're stuck on a new feature or need technical help, you can rely on our free customer support. We’re proud of our excellent customer satisfaction rate, and happy to be there when you need us.