I made a few crudely made samples to help you understand: By having multiple animation folders you can still stack layers, but now you have the ability to change the frame at which the cels appear.Īdvantage: Cels can appear at different times, you can tween cels seperately, great for lineart and objects that are seperateĭisadvantage: clipping mask and layer blending modes don't work well, more complex to understand OPTION 2 - MULTIPLE CELS within ONE FOLDER: To do this, make a sperate ANIMATION folder to contain these cels. >Tip2: Animation Cels can help you understand individual layer folders easier (it actually has a lot more good uses)Īdvantage: fairly simple, fast setup, layer blending modes, clipping mask, great for color layersĭisadvantage: layers within the cel MUST appear on the same frame >Tip: If you press the new cel button on the timeline palette/window, it will duplicate the layout of the previous layer without the drawings Then you place your layers within that folder and they will all appear on the same cel. OPTION 1 - MULTIPLE LAYERS within ONE CEL: Turn your cels into BASIC folders instead of raster layers. So here are two options to bring back tradition layers:

The problem that occurs is when you want multiple layers WITHIN a cel. Each layer will act as a cel rather than a normal layer. Unfortunately the video doesn't go into much detail on how the layer system works, so I have to explain it myself. The Layer System: (note - a cel is a drawning, a frame is a specific point of time) (Clip Studio Paint +1.8.2 supports basic tweening and audio files).

This video explains it perfectly, the only problem is it's outdated. There are two things you need to know in order to get into Clip Studio's animation feature: The Timeline System and The Layer System.

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