Clip Studio Paint Animation 101 | Zedrin

hey my name's edrine you might have seen some of my work around here on youtube before did you know that csp is very capable at handling animation of course you probably knew that because everybody talks about it all the time it's really accessible for it however so today i'm going to be showing you how you can get started animating in csp but wait you don't have the ex version of csp well good news you can still animate in csp using the pro version your only limitation will be that you're limited to 24 frames for this tutorial i'm going to be going over a lot of the interface and the basics behind how to get started animating because in my personal opinion and experience animation goes a lot faster and is a lot easier when you understand the interface and you're not trying to struggle with where certain ui elements are fair warning i use hotkeys a lot so i've got an on-screen display to show my inputs some of my key bindings i've remapped i've tried to move all my key bindings over to the left side because i use them a lot and i would recommend that you do so too but i've got an on-screen keyboard displaying what i'm pressing at any given time and i'll try to point out anything that i've rebound myself to begin we need to make a new file i'm going to just go with 700x700 for demonstration purposes you can do whatever size you want or need next we want to make sure that we can see the timeline which you can access by going up to window timeline or just clicking down at the bottom if you already have it on your screen there's this little button here that says new timeline you can also access this option by going up to animation timeline new timeline this creates where all the magic will happen you'll see a bunch of options pop up and we can choose settings for how the animation will play back here the most important option here is the frame rate most animation is going to be in 24 frames per second however a lot of it is also done on twos which is equivalent of animating at 12 frames per second which is what i would recommend you can do whatever frame rate you want but one thing i would recommend is trying to keep it around 12 or so because if you're on the pro version the next option playback time is limited to 24. this basically means that you have only 24 frames that you can work with on the pro version this means that if you're at 12 frames per second that's gonna be two seconds of animation whereas 24 frames per second would be only one and higher than that would be even less that aside animation is a little bit easier to do when you're working at lower frame rates the other options don't really influence anything mechanically so i'm not going to go over them so if you've animated before you probably know what most of these things are but if you haven't i'm going to go over them really quick this little red thing here this is called the playhead this is which frame is currently displayed on your timeline these little blue bars meanwhile are the playback range of your animation you can use these to quickly change the length if you need to isolate something or if you need to loop just a small section of an animation or just play back a single part of it and lastly you can see any active layers down on the timeline itself and you can even control their size like so so now what you might be thinking is you're going to take a bunch of layers and you're going to shrink them all down to one frame each and then you're going to start drawing each individual drawing on all these different layers but fred wait up there there is a better way csp has this cool thing called an animation folder and you can have multiple of these on your timeline with your timeline open there's these new buttons that have popped up one of them is called new animation folder of course all of these that i'm going to go through can also be accessed from up top at animation new animation layer or new animation cell etc so animation folders are really great after you make one you will see the other buttons will light up the first one new animation cell clicking this will make a new layer in the animation folder and give it a spot on the timeline each time you click it it'll increment by one clicking the frame on the timeline or likewise clicking the layer in the layer browser will jump to the corresponding frame or layer making navigation a cakewalk interestingly the layer that's made will depend on the previous frame or layer in the folder if you have a vector layer in the folder any new cells will be vector layers as well this even works for groups and folders the next button is specify animation cell this allows you to reuse and recycle frames that you've already drawn such as if you delete an exposure or need to reuse an animation the final button is delete specified cells this removes the frame from the timeline but doesn't delete it from the animation folder conversely if you delete a layer from an animation folder it'll keep the spot on the timeline in case you ever do make a new layer with that name do note that you can also move frames around after they're created and even make box selections around multiple frames if you need to clear out multiple frames at once the last button i'll mention is show onion skin this allows you to see the after images of the previous and next frames you can control the color number of frames transparency and so on via animation show animation cells onion skin settings i'll be going over how to effectively use this tool and onion skinning in general in part two of this tutorial series as it's very important for doing in-betweens and things like that in the meantime however to recap everything we've just covered i've put a brief description of all these buttons on the screen speaking of part two in the background i currently have a bit of a time lapse of what's to come so this tutorial showed you how to use the interface which might be enough for you to get started animating yourself next time however i'm going to be covering how to use csp to make animations of your own i'll be redrawing one of the scenes from my old animation hero the dense speaking of if you want to see some more animations of my own or check out some of my other tutorials be sure to check out my channel you

Channel: CLIP STUDIO PAINT

Views: 78,347

Keywords: Clip Studio Paint, Animation, Hand-drawn, Anime, Cartoon, Toon boom, Flash, Zedrin, Animation tutorial

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Length: 5min 36sec (336 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020