1. Open up clip studio paint

           ***Important***

                         - clip studio paint Ex unlimited  frames

                         - clip studio paint Pro limited 23 frames

• Click on new canvas, under projects click on the last one which is animation

• A window should pop up like shown above

• You can adjust how big you want it, I'm going with 500 x 500

2. Once you click OK your animation canvas should appear alongside a timeline at the bottom of the canvas.

• if the timeline does not appear you can go to:

                                           Window -> Timeline 
  

• Now don't let the timeline icons scare you, they are fairly simple and easy to use.

        - I won't be going into full detail on every icon but I will highlight and explain the ones we will 
  
             be using.
  

• Play buttons: start from beginning, skip up one, play/pause, skip back, go to the end

• Loop: plays the animation continuously

• Add Folder: This adds a new folder to your timeline

• Add Frame/Cel: This adds a frame to your animation folder

• Onion Skin: Makes you able to see the last 2 or 3 frames ahead or behind

• Not everyone will have Clip Studio Paint EX with unlimited frames so I will do a short 23-framed animation.

3. In this animation I will be making a hand turn a flame into the water, nothing too extravagant.

               -To start out we will make 3 keyframes 

               - Add new frames/cels to frames 9 and 18 

               - That will be our beginning, middle, and end. 

 

• this is our rough sketch to help guide us toward making that animation.

• now I we will fill in those blank spaces to guide us.

• you can play around and move the frames/cels to any positions you like to make it more fluid for you.

• Also remember you can play around with squish and stretch methods to exaggerate the motion.

• Once that is done we can start the line art around the hand, this would be a good time to maybe clean up your sketch a bit.

4. The line art should be easy since we have a sketch to help guide us through.

           -The next step is to fill in the hand color which we would be adding a folder layer below the 

              outline

            - I will be filling it in with a solid color only right now, it can be any skin color of your 

                choosing. 

• Above is the animation gif of the hand outlined and colored.

• It's time to start on animating the flame and water.

-create a new folder layer below the hand color layer

5. Now for animating the fire and water we want to make it seem that it's alive itself

            - we won't be creating line art for the flame or water to make it seem more natural 

            - in this speed through I add a ball that helps me with the flame. 

• Now that we have everything created, we can either leave it here or add little details to enhance the drawing.

             - I will be adding a bit more details and I will add a video to show you the details that I'll be 
  
                 adding, the video.
  

End

This is the full timelapse of the animation, I am extremely sorry I was supposed to have a recording of the detailed process but I did not record it. :(