About Clip Studio Paint
Clip Studio Paint is a digital drawing application for illustration, comic creation and animation. It provides brushes and drawing tools along with features designed for comics, such as panel layout and speech balloons.
Artists use it to create manga, webcomics, concept art and short animations, drawing with tablets and pen displays. The vendor site could not be read when this entry was prepared, so confirm the current platforms, editions and licensing, which may differ for desktop and tablet versions, on the Clip Studio website.
Clip Studio Paint is proprietary software installed on the user's device. It is relevant to comic artists, illustrators and animators looking for a drawing tool built around sequential art.
Key features
- Illustration brushes and drawing tools
- Comic panel layout tools
- Animation timeline
- Pen tablet and pen display support
- Tools for manga and webcomic production
Good fit for
- →Manga and webcomic artists producing pages
- →Illustrators drawing character art
- →Hobbyists making short animations
- Tags
- illustration
- comics
- manga
- animation
- drawing
- digital-art
- desktop-software
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