Hello! In this article, we'll learn how to easily animate illustrations in CLIP STUDIO PAINT with a very simple example.

 

This way, you'll lose any fear you might have of doing 2D Animation :D

 

We're going to take a simple illustration and transform it into a simple animation, to export it as a .gif and share it on social media.

 

The important thing is that this illustration is an animation loop, so we'll focus on doing something simple like animating a blink.

 

In addition to adding some extra details that will enhance our work.

What We Are Going To Do

We're going from this illustration

To this Animation:

But we'll work from the following illustration, so I can show you how I add all the rain and shine details, which you'll surely be interested in knowing.

I know everything is much better understood through a step-by-step video, which is why I want to share my super tutorial that is in Spanish but subtitled in many languages.

 

Activate the subtitles and look for your language, you'll surely find it ;)

VIDEO: How to animate an illustration in Clip Studio Paint

What did you think of the video?

It was a quite detailed step-by-step to help you achieve something similar with one of your illustrations.

 

Now, let's go with a summary of the main aspects of the tutorial:

Tutorial Summary

01. Save a .clip copy of your illustration

It's important to save a copy so that we have the illustration project and the animation project in different files.

02. Separate scene layers

It's important to separate the main elements of the illustration to avoid complications in the animation; each element will be a different layer.

 

For example: the background, the window, the character, etc.

03. Create a timeline

With the following settings, it's enough to make a simple animation:

• 24 frames duration (although it will ultimately be 12 frames)

• 8 frames per second

 

This way, all CLIP STUDIO users will be able to follow the steps, both those with the PRO and EX versions.

04. Eye Animation

To bring our characters to life, we can simply animate a blink, and it will work very well.

And by reactivating the other layers, we get the following result:

While it works, I want to go further, so we'll add the following elements:

05. Simple animated rain

We will add a simple rain animation that has 3 different drawings.

06. Add shine to the scene

One of the effects I love in CLIP STUDIO is the layer with the Add (Glow) blending mode. I love what we can achieve by combining the following:

 

• Rasterized layer in Add (Glow) blending mode + dark color + watercolor brush.

And we can make it look like this.

07. Export your animation as .gif

Once our animation is finished, we just need to export it as a GIF to share it on social media.

08. Result: ANIMATED GIF

I hope this article helps you and encourages you to bring your illustrations to life.

 

Greetings, I wish you well and see you in the next Tip ;)