by Elizabeth Staley | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: December 2016 | ISBN: 9781785880117

A deep dive to help you master the art of animation using Clip StudioAbout This VideoUnderstand and create special effects such as magic spellsMake custom fabric materials with special effectsA hands-on tutorial to create your own animation file as video with important key frames and playback in animationIn DetailClip Studio Paint is a family of tools for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows to create comics and manga digitally. It is the world's number one comic software and is developed byCelsys, a Japanese software development company. Clip Studio Paint has powerful features and a tool set that is optimized to create amazing-looking comics and manga. The various tools can be used to create panel layouts, perspective rulers, sketching, coloring, word balloons, and captions among others. The latest version is named “Clip Studio Paint Pro” and the enhanced version is “Clip Studio Paint EX”.This course will help you unlock your true creative potential by getting you familiar with some of the unique tools you can use to make great-looking artwork in Clip Studio Paint.First, you will learn how to create custom brush tools, which form the basis of creating many more brush tools for a variety of tasks. Then you will delve into vector tools and see how to use and manipulate them. Next, you will learn about the powerful ruler and 3D tools available in Clip Studio Paint. You will find out how to use the basic rulers in an illustration. Then you will get hands-on on drawing backgrounds using the 1, 2, and 3 point perspective rulers. You will also see how to pose and manipulate 3D models and discover how to save custom characters and poses to the materials palette for later use.By the end of the course, you will be able to create and customize your own characters to create a unique and innovative comic or manga.

1. Chapter 1 : Making Custom Materials
   • The Course Overview 00:04:03
   • Applying Existing Materials to a Canvas 00:02:11
   • Using Quick Tones 00:03:47
   • Drawing and Saving a Custom Material 00:11:53
   • Using Mesh Transformation to Apply Realistic Fabric Patterns 00:07:06
2. Chapter 2 : Creating Special Effects
   • Creating Color Hold Line Art 00:05:04
   • Coloring Sparkly Magic Effect 00:04:08
   • Creating a Colored Light Effect 00:05:47
   • Making Gems and Crystals 00:04:53
   • Coloring Shiny Leather 00:04:24
3. Chapter 3 : Color Palettes
   • Importing a Color Set from Photoshop 00:02:59
   • Using the Intermediate Color Palette 00:02:08
   • Using the Approximate Color Palette 00:03:00
   • Using the Color History Palette 00:01:27
   • Selecting Colors Using the Sub View 00:02:38
4. Chapter 4 : Flatting and Shading Artworkj
   • Adding Flat Colors Using Reference Layers 00:05:52
   • Creating Cel Shaded Artwork Using Layer Modes and Masks 00:06:03
   • Creating a Soft Shaded Look with Gradient and Selections 00:04:41
5. Chapter 5 : Animating
   • Creating a New Animation File 00:04:07
   • Adding Animation Timeline to Existing File 00:01:04
   • Adding Keyframes and Playing Back Animation 00:01:54
   • Exporting Animation as a .GIF 00:01:44
   • Exporting Animation as a Video File 00:02:40