Clip Studio Paint EX

Clip Studio Paint EX is the world's leading comic and manga creation software and delivers powerful art tools for every manga and comic artist. It is designed both for artists wishing to enhance and perfect their pen-and-paper illustrations and for artists wishing to complete the entire process of creating manga and comics digitally. Sketching, inking and coloring your Comics and Manga has never been easier.

Clip Studio Paint EX, the successor to Manga Studio (Comic Studio), is an essential graphic software and app backed by creators of manga, comics and cartoons. It offers even better specialized features for drawing comics and cartoons, and has improved features for coloring your works. You can create full color comics and cartoons using only this software or app.

Overview of Clip Studio Paint EX Features

• Cel animation support (frame-by-frame animation)
• Animation timeline
• Light table function
• Onion skin display
• Multiple export options
• Pens, Pencils, Brushes & Tools
• Advanced Brush Effects
• Vector Tools
• Importing & Exporting
• 3D Options
• Perfect for Comic Illustration
• Multiple-Page Story Layout

New feature in Clip Studio Paint EX:

Also known as frame-by-frame or traditional animation, this technique makes an object or character appear to move on its own. The artist can draw individual cels (frames), which act as transparent sheets that can be layered, and create the illusion of movement when the series of cels is played as a continuous sequence.

The timeline provides granular control over timing and display adjustments to create fluid movement of the animations.

The light table illuminates pages, rendering them semi-transparent and making it easier to use multiple layers for reference, which is ideal for creating in-betweens (transitions between cels), and clean-line art for cels and illustrations.

Onion skinning is a technique used in creating animated cartoons and editing movies to see several cels at once, allowing the animator or editor to determine how to create or adjust an image based on the previous image in the sequence.

CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX has all of the features of CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO, professional story creation tools, as well as other special features, that make it the ultimate illustration tool for serious comic, manga and graphic artists.

System Requirements for Clip Studio Paint EX

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10
• 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent
• Does not work with 64 bit version of XP or Vista
• Does not work with Windows RT
• Compatible with 32 bit and 64 bit OS
• 2 GB RAM recommended
• 2 GB free hard disk space recommended
• Graphic card with VRAM of 256MB or more and OpenGL 1.5 recommended
• XGA (1024×768) or higher, WXGA (1280×768) or higher, 16-Bit color display or higher
• Pen/Stylus Tablets – Wacom tablets (FAVO, Bamboo, Intuos, and Cintiq). Also known to work with Microsoft’s Surface Pro and other tablets.