Hello! In this TIP, I'll show you how to enhance your animations with Clip Studio PAINT Assets, these free and paid resources that we can use within Clip Studio PAINT.

 

You'll notice that we'll be able to greatly improve our illustrations or animations easily and quickly.

 

Don't believe me?

See what we'll learn next ;)

What We Are Going To Do

We will start with this animation:

To finish with this animation:

You'll see how simple it is and the great result we can achieve.

That's why I invite you to watch the following tutorial:

VIDEO: Enhance Your Animations with Clip Studio ASSETS

Don't forget to activate the subtitles in your language, you'll surely find it ;)

What did you think of the video?

We could see how easy the process is and how we can achieve a great result.

Step-by-Step Process

Now let's see a step-by-step breakdown of the process:

1. Original Animation

We will start with this animation, without background and without effects.

That is what we will add in this tutorial.

2. Background

Now we will download one of the following Assets

Once downloaded, it automatically installs in Clip Studio PAINT. We can find it in the Material window in the Downloads folder.

Before using this background, let's go to the layer panel and create a New layer folder, named: Background.

And now we go to the Material window, take the galaxy background, and drag it to the canvas.

We scale it to fit the canvas

Then we go to the layer panel and create a new raster layer below the galaxy background.

We paint this layer a dark color, either black or blue

For now, we have the following result:

3. Magic Brush

Now we are going to download the following Assets

Once downloaded, we must go to the Material window, Downloads, and select it at the bottom to install it using the option: Paste selected material

Finally, we confirm with the OK button

In the Brush tool, under Sub Tool, we have the magic brush installed which we can now use.

4. Magic Power Animation

Now we will start with the most important part of the tutorial, the girl's power animation, but this will be very easy to do with the help of the brush we downloaded earlier.

 

The first thing we will do is go to the timeline to create a New Animation folder:

We change its name and create a new animation cel

And we draw some lightning bolts with the magic brush

Then we select the animation folder in the layer panel, go to the blending modes, and change it from Normal to Add (Glow)

Making the lightning bolts look like this. Much better, right?

Now let's go to frame 2 to create a new animation cel

Don't forget to activate onion skin to see the previous drawing and use it as a guide.

And we draw the lightning bolts for frame 2

On frame 4, we create a new animation cel

And we draw the lightning bolts for frame 4

Now we go to frame 6 and create a new animation cel

And we draw the lightning bolts for this frame

Now we go to frame 8 to create a new animation cel

And we draw the lightning bolts for this frame

Now we go to frame 10 to create a new animation cel

And we draw the lightning bolts for frame 10

Finally, we go to frame 12 to create a new animation cel

And we draw the lightning bolts for this frame

Once we have finished, we will shorten the duration of the lightning animation folder, leaving it at 12 frames. We do this by dragging from the end.

And then we duplicate this animation with a right-click: copy

And in the next empty frame, with a right-click, we activate: Paste

Achieving the following result:

5. Color Animation

The next thing we are going to do is create a new animation folder

And then, within this animation folder, we create a new animation cel on frame 1

Now we select the newly created Animation folder, and in the blending modes, we will change from Normal to Hard light.

Let's go to frame 12 to create a new animation cel

And we paint the entire canvas blue

Then we go to frame 13 and activate Assign cel to frame

In the window that appears, we select drawing 1, which is the empty drawing.

Then we go to frame 15 and create a new animation cel

And we paint it red

Finally, we go to frame 17 and activate Assign cel to frame

And we choose drawing 1

And so we achieve a simple animation of color flashes

Achieving the following result:

6. Small Glow

Now we go to the layer panel to create a new raster layer

We change its name, and in the blending modes, we choose Add (Glow)

We select the Airbrush tool, Sub Tool Soft.

And we paint the small glow over the girl's finger

Achieving the following result:

7. Final Glow

Now we go back to the layer panel to create a new raster layer

This layer will be above all project layers, and we will change the blending modes from Normal to Add (Glow)

Then we select the Airbrush tool, but this time the brush size will be much larger than the previous glow

When painting, we achieve the following result: the magical power has even more glow.

For now, we obtain the following animation:

8. Final Background Editing

Now we will simply duplicate the background layers. To do this, we select the galaxy layer and right-click: duplicate layer.

And in the blending modes, we change from Normal to Add (Glow)

With the color background, we will do the same: select it and right-click: Duplicate Layer

But in the blending modes, we change it from Normal to Multiply

Thus obtaining the following result:

9. Export Your Animation

Go to File, Export Animation, Movie

We change the name

If desired, we can edit the video size of the animation

And we wait for it to export.

10. Final Animation

This is the animation we were able to achieve. It looks incredible, doesn't it?

And we simply did it with the help of Clip Studio PAINT Assets.

 

I hope this TIP has been useful to you and that you too can greatly improve both your illustrations and your animations with the help of Clip Studio PAINT Assets, which, as you could see, can be very useful.

 

See you in the next TIP.