Hello! In this tip, I'll show you step-by-step how to add magic effects to a 2D animation in Clip Studio Paint.

What we are going to do:

We are going to work on this animation:

And we are going to transform it into this animation:

All in Clip Studio Paint

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For this, I invite you to watch the super tutorial where I explain step-by-step how to add magic effects to an animation in Clip Studio Paint:

VIDEO Tutorial: Magic Effects in a 2D Animation

🛎 Activate subtitles in:

Settings - Subtitles - Auto-translate - Choose your language

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I remind you that my tutorial is in Spanish, but I always provide subtitles so you can watch it in your language

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Now, I would like to review what was covered in the super tutorial.

All the processes in this tutorial:

This is the animation we start working with.

Then we paint the effect animation, frame by frame.

Achieving the following result:

We also added a background to the scene.

This was the material I downloaded and used; to get it, you must have GOLD points.

Then I hid the border lines of the magic effect

Adding Magic Effects

From here we begin with the magic effects of the fantasy animation; first, we try with Add (Glow), looking like this:

Add (Glow)

Add (Glow) + Blur (200)

Opacity (30% Base Magic Effect and 75% Blur Magic Effect)

Achieving the following result, more integrated, soft, and subtle.

Adding light to the magic effect

We create a new layer inside and use the brush tool to add light to each frame of the animation.

Intense Light + 75% opacity + Blur 200

After duplicating the magic effect layer again, it will appear more illuminated.

Gradient + Daytime Sky

Gradient + Overlay + 100% Opacity

Gradient + Overlay + 70% Opacity

We finalize the animation, achieving the following result.

I hope you liked this article and found it useful. I gave you some tips, but it's always good to try what works best depending on the colors you have.

 

Best regards, take care, and see you next time!