The Complete Beginner's Tutorial to Digital Animation in Clip Studio Paint: Animating a Head Turn

[@kyru_art]

These 4 cells probably took a lot of hours to finish. As an illustrator, just watching the process already made me exhausted because of how much motivation and focus it requires to do this repeatedly for hours. The anime animators deserves a lot more respect! 🙇

[@sebastianmoran5966]

I've just started my digital animation major, and I understand exactly what u mean T_T

[@igoroleynikovanimation]

Not THAT much really. But yeah, it starts to be exhausting on coloring\inbetweenng stage...

[@dorklymorkly3290]

I am 100% guilty of it but, throw motivation in the trash, and see it more like your day work. Do you have ANY food or item you like a lot? I like pizza and frozen very much. And in order to eat pizza, someone has to make it, either I, or someone else, but let's say someone else has to do it. Now imagine if whoever makes pizza stops, in the middle of the week, because they don't have the motivation to make the pizza, even though they own a pizza store. I would not have any pizza to eat, ahhhh how horrible... he or she has to make the pizza, its his or her day job. I will pay for the pizza, I want it, why isn't there. Why is today not a pizza day. Woe woe woeeee. All because of motivation, instead of "Just make the darn pizza." And likewise. Just make the darn image. Your motivation plays no role, just schedule some vacation time in there, but otherwise, treat drawing like a pizzamaking job. You might not have the customers to prove it, but if you did, and you decided to "Oh I'm not drawing it today" and a customer enters your "The it that is drawn" store, cause it's still open of course. And comes in and you just say" Sorry no motivation" and you'd crush the customers spirit. Make the pizza, Kyru. Make the pizza, Dorkly Morkly. Make the pizza, everyone. Just make it. Motivation does not come into it, you're running a drawshop and there have to be drawing, so, draw.

[@MotivationalGrid101]

It's not done by one person tho

[@camicaimwentbonkers7374]

Was inspired n motivated at 1st, but motivation dwindled, then I grew to love it as work n something I need to do

[@SerenityOceania]

Wtf this is the cleanest, straight to the point guide I've seen on Animation.

[@vetoro1548]

Imagine drawing all day for just a few seconds. Thank you all the animators in the world you are amazing! Make my childhood till now be awesome to life!

[@jiedragonhub]

Yeah, I started to learn animating for 2 weeks now. I just finished a 20-second scene in 1 week. And the art style is only minimalist style. Animation is truly a lot of work.

[@navneetrout8193]

Imagine! This's the life of the animators.

[@SilverHunterN]

@@jiedragonhub I tried Blender 3D, year ago, and trust me, 3D takes even longer than 2D does, by at least 3 times. Its because I had to model on front, side and back view, then make a skeleton rigs (which kept breaking), and then weight paint. All these tasks in 3D takes hours, especially on first time nmaking a 3D character. I got one of my siblings to try out Blender 3D and 2D flash, and she prefers 2D flash loads more.

[@CLNDSTNStudio]

Quick tip: there is actually already a shortcut for rotating the canvas... you can use shift+space... and to reset the rotation you can double left click while holding down the shortcut (shift+space+double click).

[@Amaankf]

I replace mine to just r to match it with photoshop

[@vetoro1548]

meanwhile i never use rotation, just rotate my hand or gesture ahahha.

[@Amaankf]

@@vetoro1548 we don't have a screen tablet

[@nanadrawslot]

😊

[@exiite2800]

I have buttons on my xp pen art tablet and I set one of them to the rotate canvas, so I just hold it and use my pen to rotate

[@Amaankf]

21:36 I search all of the internet to find this feature to find the best possible way to do it and no where it was to be seen but finally the search is over , you are a champ man

[@kuprukuula]

Does not work for me. I have to click the line a second time for it to color that area. What am I doing wrong?

[@MrDaiohAzu]

it's an old comment, you probably found the solution by now, but i guess this happens due to the fill tool settings, right ? Something about tolerance option or the opening margin option, idk@@kuprukuula

[@kungfuremix]

I think and imma be honest... this is by far the easiest way to understand how to use the timeline and the folders. Without making it too complicated I could easily understand and already eager to hop on clip studio to animate something! Thank you for making this animation tutorial dude. I was just gonna stick to toon boom due to the difficulty but now I have more options 🙏🏾✨

[@hansbrackhaus8017]

Also, note how Dong, after telling you to use the Onion Skin to draw the Animation Reference drawing (the one with the Triangle) actually flips between drawings, too. This is kind of important so he (or you) does not end up getting trapped in a boring, robotic trace. By flipping to the actual drawings instead of purely relying on onion skin (or the lightbox) you can see arcs between the line points better. It's also why real oldschool animators 'flipped' or 'rolled' the pages with their fingers before putting down new lines. Some animators don't even use the onion skin for some cuts, especially ones with big movement and only use onion skin/lightbox for very very fine movements where the spacing of the lines is really important and onion skin helps not drawing the line over the old one. But you can do whatever you want. Just be aware that flipping the drawings and observing how the lines and corner/start end points of the lines move from the first drawing to the next, while you draw the inbetween of that, can be really helpful in getting a more 'flowy' inbetween. I think this is so second nature to him that he didn't even think of mentioning it. Something he cannot really be blamed for. But I still think it's worth pointing it all out.

[@fripsite]

Straight to the point and clear demonstration, really great tutorial!

[@forgvn70x7]

The curved line tool totally opened my eyes, I’ve tried animation several times but I always get frustrated on the final clean up pass because my line art looks different on every layer. I’ll definitely try this for more consistency

[@efemji]

dong chang you are a gift to us amateurs and rookies. thanks for this video.

[@adacskipper]

oh man, I wish I watched this tutorial years ago! Animating in CS makes sooo much more sense now; I was always overwhelmed by the amount of layers there are.

[@Arichiiii]

Thank you soooo much for your videos, especially this one! I just had an interview + test for an in-between position and I used your videos to study for the whole week. It really helps me prepare a lot and know what to expect. Now I got the job thanks to you 😭

[@SgtHoggin]

The thing that surprises me most in this tutorial, as someone who has been animating for a while, is the fact you make extra inbetweens in the Cleanup stage, and not during the tiedown or even the rough animation stages.

[@_cmrartmoonpixxy_3924]

4:27 I think this is what I’ve needed this whole time! I really needed to know how I was going to use the animation folders! And now I think I know how!

[@Ximalao]

Very professional in depth video, eventually get to see it cause of the algorithm, best of all intros out there, heartfelt thanks to Dong Chang.

[@Dennurd]

10:20 THANK YOU! Just that tip alone saved me so much time and hassle XD

[@poetickles]

Just wanted to comment that I only found your channel recently and your videos are so clear and succinct in their delivery! I appreciate how you sprinkle little tips /shortcut keys as you worked through the video, esp for someone who just started CSP! Thank you very much!

[@pabloemiliozantosveles2388]

This tutorial is amazing, I've been looking for tips and ways to do a more professional job for years and you did it all in one video. Please continue to meet your goals, your work is wonderful.

[@BATMAN10N]

thank you, i too like watching tanya and her crazy smile

[@SephinAlexander]

Thank you for this tutorial. I may never work in a proper animation studio cause of personal situation but I do work on a personal project during my off hours. So getting acquainted with current practises, terminologies like 'tie-down' etc, what they mean, how to do them etc.. really helps me keep going and improve. I really appreciate you taking time out to teach and share. Thank you

[@adilator]

I do anime illustrations so I'm pretty good with clip studio paint, but still your video was very informative and straight to the point. Thank you very much for your effort.

[@alieenoir]

this video is a blessing, it's so much fun to animate while watching. Finally I understand the overwhelming layout of CSP, it's so cool!

[@DarkSoulx7]

I've been wanting to get into animation for a while now for personal projects so this video is just what I needed. Thank you very much, Dong.

[@Juan_Richard_Feliz]

Animation work is so underrated.

[@lelouchofbritannia4692]

O wow I just got this software and I’ve been looking for a good tutorial for anime and stuff I’m soo glad you made this, I’m so lucky

[@satan3034]

fantastic tutorial, taught me a bunch of things abt clip studio paint that i didnt know before!!!

[@icarusdjr]

This is amazing! You explain things very clearly, so it's super helpful. Thank you so much.

[@Zippkey]

Thank Dong TWT I really need this.

[@Ruldolphmaker]

Clip studio was such a great software. It's a shame they're going for the monthly subscription model. I'm as TVpaint guy forever, but It was worth learning CSP for personal reasons. Your vids are great.

[@izumichan31]

There's still going to be perpetual license options. Each version major version will have one. Subscription is only if you absolutely want the new features as they come out. Otherwise just wait and buy the perpetual license for the next major version.

[@TarabanB]

Torrent

[@henpaidesu]

version 2 is a completely separate product, if anything just wait for version 3 when it comes out that includes all the version 2 updates. if anything all you need is something to draw, free assets, the liquify tool, and big rendering which is what you only need really.

[@xn9tj]

This was so perfect, picked up so many small things I didn't know before, thank you Dong! Will you ever cover compositing for anime someday? And the notations that come with them? I haven't been able to find anyone that covers this, even any on compositing in 2d animation at all. There is a series of books on comp in After Effects for anime by Ohira Yukiteru, but I can't find any version that isn't in japanese, and I can't read and decipher any of it

[@gankavaxg8276]

What program is he using

[@doomyloomy1081]

I just got recommended this video and I'm currently practicing animation and I also love Youjo Senki

[@minah.]

very helpful

[@osooso6027]

this video is so good, very straight forward i thought i already knew some of this but still learned some nice stuff

[@vinsmokejambe7041]

you animated the little devil aaaa amazing

[@ChampiRudo]

You are kind of the rode model / guide I needed in my life right now, I am so grateful to the yt algo to show me your work, I feel like I might have a chance to do somehting with my life now. Thank you very very much !

[@maggy803]

by far the best tutorial video ive ever seen thank you! im enjoying my time animating because how great you teach!

[@tuat555]

Wow😲 I really appreciated I really appreciated that tutorial, thank you for the share🙏, that's amazing🤩! I always wished to know some of the standard of japanese anime and BOOM!!! Your video just came out 😄

[@davidmirfilms]

Another fantastic and educational video! Please keep making great content! Big fan!

[@Hungry_Raccoon_]

I decided that i would try and copy what you do as a way to learn, step for step to just see what I could get the hang of with the drawing. 2 hours have passed and im still at 4:17 I will keep on keeping on but man is this a great lesson on how hard it really is to just get the smallest things right Idk what it is about the eyes but the shapes are just messin with me and I can seem to get sizes correct either. Making sure things are not too big or too small is also a big problem I am running into. Edit 1:After minutes of struggle after this I decided to rewatch and saw you drew bottom up, is was going up down, so I decided bottom up was what I needed. Sure enough after a few attempts I got it it is so weird how that works. Edit 2: I have reached the hair and… I have made some very wrong choices… remember how I stated I have problems with how things are sized? I made a lot of things too big and some parts too small, it is such a problem that I am going to have to start over. I spent 3 hrs on this and now it has dissolved into ruin. I won’t give up but this is going to be a task for a more motivated me lmao

[@straivalist8281]

I will give you a tip and tell you that you're overthinking it WAYY too much. Almost if not 80% of animators/artists never actually get it spot on 1 for 1 at what they are looking at onto their canvas. There will be some changes. If you were to put your drawing put right next to his as a next frame, you can easily notice your mistakes. The reason animators make the frames look smooth is because I was the ones to create the initial first sketch or I was literally tracing another seniors rough sketches. Drawing by looking and imitating it however is a completely different story and is incredibly hard and rather pointless to do which is what you were trying to do. I know this is 8 months late so you probably figured this out already but just in case I thought I'd help you realize this. As long as the actual character you are drawing looks easily recognizable as the character sheet or model you are animating, you're completely good. I hope you get my point lmao

[@Hungry_Raccoon_]

@@straivalist8281 I infact was not overthinking anything, you just looked to deep into a comment I made that had no meaning to it other than seeing what my level was entering into digital art by attempting something obvious too advanced for a starting digital artist. The reason I did this was because I had drawn pen to paper for a long time and wanted to get into digital, the inly reason I struggled was because I was copying what he was doing in the video despite the video not being a tutorial on how to do what he was doing, but instead information that is needed for beginners. I also never went into the whole frames bit because that wasn’t the point of this experiment but I never fully explained that in my comment and or probably worded it poorly. In my edits, which I stopped doing because I hated stopping my motion to make an edit, I was complaining about proportions and how it looked wrong, it was not because I compared the 2 and mine was worse, it is that my anatomy was wrong, again something I never went in depth on explaining. My anatomy was so off that if I kept going it would create a domino effect where the character would begin to look off, and sure they would be recognizable, but they would look like i was attempting abstract art of said character, which was why I scrapped it and started over. The reason my anatomy was so off was because, again, the video wasn’t about drawing tanya, but about basics. I am now far better at this stuff. Edit: Also sorry if any of this sounds hostile, I am not mad just don’t care to check my words rn as im on vacation

[@SanOcelotl]

its crazy to think i just watched this for free, thank you so much, i learned a lot

[@tanvirhoque1307]

Really love your tutorials. Can you drop some videos on how to master anime style art (Art tutorial basically). I will be really glad

[@Dubberman2023]

thanks my animation finally turn out much better. thanks to this video.

[@MindsEye]

Great video Dong! It would be really helpful if you could make a video on how to implement 2d animation with 3d backgrounds without having to always animated every single frame of each structure and building. How to import into blender and then composite it in after effects. There are many videos on doing the 2d animation but not the finalizing step at the end.

[@Eric-yd9dm]

I love this workflow, though inbetweening at the cleanup stage is a mad skill I'm simply failing to acquire =O

[@losertoy5265]

Please upload more videos i really need them! ❤❤❤

[@VanyTheWerehog]

thnks for the TimeSheet! I'll upgrade my patreon donation

[@Mefrius]

Why i didnt see this video before! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@kosmastars8057]

Started animating feels like my soul and sanity Left my body but gotta keep trying . Fighting 💪💪

[@MouizaaCS]

DONG THABKS FORT HIS VISEO DARLING

[@magicmakers7]

It's really hard to make an animation 🥺your work is extremely superb ✨✨

[@latrobairitz9263]

Let's gooo

[@Grassphobic]

Actually learned a lot from this i'm eager to try on my next animation!

[@lobotomars]

drawing the in-between without a sketch was a crazy move omg😭😭😭

[@kariharry6501]

Right?😭

[@rikomon]

I followed this same process in Krita with the same result as you thank you!

[@nothingiseverperfect]

Okay this was actually SUPER interesting and insightful. THANK YOU

[@vheart_png]

You're a very good teacher! Thank you

[@kuro2155]

thanks for making these videos. I learn a lot from it. Hope you can make more of these video in your free time especially composition after effect

[@dalri7755]

Omgggg whaaatttttt that info is brilliant u are an angel omg thank uuuuu

[@Zeloord7]

Thank you so much Dong Chang Sensei!!😅

[@Joyboy9776]

life saving tutorial

[@atikahsalsabilads6374]

this is soo fun thankkyouu and bless you

[@zooropa414]

perfect timing!

[@eddybrockad722]

Your video is so helpful ❤

[@cubasknation]

Great walkthrough. Could you cover a background breakdown or a dialogue scene. Thank you

[@cocosguitarvibes0921]

I usually separate the head from the hair on a different folder. This way I can freely animate the motion of the hair. Usually animate my head bald or shaved head haha

[@huk5414]

-inhales- TAAANYAAAAAAA

[@baldwinnigatovf8095]

Thank you so much sir

[@eganlawrence5325]

Love ur videos thx for another lesson 💯

[@waroengstudio3669]

amazing work.. thanks for sharing sensei

[@hfcworld2]

Great video! Please make more advance tutorials in clip!

[@jilliancrawford7577]

I'm suprised you smoothed the aliasing in CSP given how you showed how compositing is done in After Effects, though I suppose that's not a big deal for the sake of this particular demonstration lol. Is there a way to composit anime in CSP further like how it was done in After Effects or no? I'm just curious lol. This is super cool and I hope you make more videos like this again soon! I don't know why but it's so incredibly fun to watch the breakdown of it all! P.S. thank you for teaching me about the various coloring techniques! I do all my digital art in CSP but I haven't experimented with the different coloring methods and features due to being too intimidated by the learning curve beyond what I got accustomed to. It really showed me that I need to step out of my comfort zone more often and practice with the program more. Thank you for that!

[@komiuziya]

Mannn retas was way more straight forward with the color separation lines :( I wish csp would make a feature where it automatically colors the selected colours wahh

[@teddet7671]

Thank you for the video! Can you do a video where you show exporting to after effects and show the common things you do for composition and effects etc? I was always interested to see what I should be doing to my animations in after effects. Like what are the most common effects that we should know or that are used often.

[@muhammadnurfirdausbinswand538]

this what i need,,tq so much

[@gemini9775]

very interesting thanks ^^

[@teddet7671]

Brooo pleasee use this simple example and show how to do basic composition or lighting etc . This has helped so much but can you do the full process

[@coconutknight6969]

impressive!

[@marcidecastro7750]

The best I've seen and on to the point. Is it all right to ask if you could do a tutorial for compositing the animations made?

[@Alex-hs3dx]

Amazing 🔥👏👏👏

[@sambit370]

ty bro, keep going!

[@MelloCello7]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing from you professional experience! Are there any resources for learning the nitty gritty of the Anime industry pipeline workflow?

[@audaykun8328]

Great tutorial 👏👏👏💯💯💯

[@BGStandAlone]

25:19 had missed that the first go around of the video and came across it by chance, was curious why my stuff looked like pixel art and the end result in the video smoother

[@Viewer802]

Who is using clip studio paint for first time 😊

[@funky_pepe]

IVE BEEN DOING IT ALL WRONG I FEEL SO STUPID thank you big time bro 🙏🙏

[@orimu836]

Being a Key Animator looks fun. But Being an In-betweener is a nightmare.

[@sebastianuber4085]

Thanks man...thank you

[@reparosempra8901]

For the inbetween & cleanup stage, he says a brush size of 2 but does not specify what units - I believe he is using PIXEL units. File > Preferences > Ruler/Unit > Unit of length If you use mm units, set your brush size to around 0.25 to 0.26 to get a very close match. This is assuming a pen with NO pressure sensitivity.

[@Hakeymo]

Hey,I love your content and learned a ton from it! Can you please make a "how to do poses video":)

[@alexyorkart]

Thanks for this tutorial! Looking forward to trying Clip Studio more seriously. Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for having the dpi set to 192?

[@emeka_rt]

Great video! Does this mean no more Opentoonz tutorials?

[@DanielRodriguez-zi9qe]

thank you so much

[@tex7822]

I know how to do all of these (kind of, i get the idea of it) but its just that i dont have a project to begin with! I have no ideas of what to animate. Even the head turns i draw, eventually i either pause and never come back to it or i give up midway.

[@tex7822]

Dong chang make one more

[@tex7822]

GUYS can i make jujutsu kaisen season 2 with this one?

[@HiHi-oc3gh]

Yes. CSP is what some animators use in the industry

[@To.oTNova]

Thanks man you earned my subscribe. Can you make how to do backgrounds please 🙏

[@inspector_beyond]

God I was looking for this video for a long time, especially that explains how genga is later on colored. My question remains is how to keep G-Pen and Curve tool sizes the same. For me these lines are still thick and when smoothed out, they are sometimes remain Non-Anti-Aliased or smoothed out, but very rough.

[@samirkazah302]

Today I learned anime is just pixel art with a smoothing filter applied

[@XerpollAnimation]

I learn timings and inbetweens the japanese way only in your channel.

[@Eduardo_21_12]

Hello Dong! I'm an old Photoshop and Illustrator user. I got to know CSP and am using the trial version of Pro. What are the advantages of using the EX version? Thank you and good luck with the channel!