Clip Studio Paint 2.0 replace improves coloration mixing and 3D toolkit

Celsys has launched Clip Studio Paint 2.0, the primary main replace for its common digital illustration app that introduces new 3D referencing instruments, brush results, and extra language help.

A number of the most notable additions for the replace construct on the app’s present help for 3D fashions, which could be imported into the app and used as drawing references. Model 2.0 of Clip Studio Paint introduces a customizable head mannequin inside the 3D part of the Materials palette that may be freely positioned to seek out the specified angle. There are 9 preset faces to select from that cowl realism, anime, ultra-masculine superhero, and extra. Head measurement, form, lighting, and facial options are all adjustable.

Clip Studio Paint 2.0 is offered now throughout all supported platforms (Home windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, and Chromebook), with a worth beginning at $0.99 a month in case you’re utilizing it on a single cellular machine. Selecting the best way to purchase the software program is now simpler mentioned than executed, although, as pricing has develop into complicated and slightly convoluted following the corporate’s resolution to drop its beloved one-time buy mannequin.

Celsys offers two tiers for Clip Studio Paint 2.0 — Professional for on a regular basis illustrators (ranging from $4.99 a month for one pill or laptop) and EX for animators and comedian artists who want extra export choices and multipage help (equally ranging from $8.99 a month).

Every tier is offered as both a month-to-month or annual subscription or a one-time buy, which then requires an annual Replace Cross subscription to obtain future updates. Celsys additionally affords upgrades for customers who had already bought a one-time license for Clip Studio Paint 1.0. You may learn the complete breakdown for every pricing mannequin and membership tier on the Clip Studio Paint web site.

Gripes with V2’s pricing apart — for these of us that detest drawing arms (responsible), a Hand Scanner instrument has been added. It makes use of your machine’s digicam to scan and observe your individual hand, mirroring its actions on a 3D mannequin in actual time. Different useful instruments new to Clip Studio Paint 2.0 embrace an adjustable fisheye perspective ruler, which distorts a picture as if being considered by means of a fisheye lens, and Align/Distribute layers to evenly line up or prepare objects and drawings.

For illustration-based updates, a brand new Perceptual Mixing mode for brush instruments that gives extra reasonable coloration mixing has been added to the Ink part of the Sub instrument element palette. Perceptual Mixing mode contains 5 brightness correction ranges that can be utilized to regulate how colours mix throughout each brush sort. Clip Studio Paint 2.0 additionally introduces a brand new Shading Assistant that routinely provides shadows to your work utilizing a draggable “gentle” supply. Two shading kinds can be found — Easy Shading for a blended look and Cel Shading for stable, comic-style contrasts.

Lastly, the app is now additionally obtainable in 4 further languages: Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, and Simplified Chinese language (although the latter isn’t obtainable for Home windows or macOS). There are different small however nonetheless helpful options included in Clip Studio Paint 2.0 that we’re not going to record right here, however you could find the complete breakdown of what’s new within the launch notes.