Adobe Animate vs Clip Studio Paint

Especially since animation is a very long and arduous process, you would need the best tools to help you make the process a bit easier. For this reason, we thought it might be helpful to compare Adobe Animate and Clip Studio Paint, to see which software is most suitable for your animation purposes. With that out of the way, let’s jump into comparing them.
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00:00 intro
02:01 Overview
03:56 Interface
07:01 Tools and workflow
09:49 Learning Curve
10:43 Final Verdict
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[willpower]

The comparison is simple:
Animate is for simpler vector based work.
Clip is more for traditional animators who can actually draw.

[ketamu]

I use CSP in combination with bitmapflow for tweening. I export at 15 fps and get 30 fps after clean up with close to half the work time.

[EditsAnimations]

I personally Use Adobe Animate for animation since it has alot of potential and it fits my style of Animation
But i also use Clip Studio Paint but i use it for Drawings, Making Comics/Manga/Manwha and if i get bored i just makes small animations with it
İ would personally recommend that you use both for dffrent purposes but it might be hard 2 learn 2 programs but it will be worth it in the end

[missplayer]

Clip Studio Paint animation feature desperately needs more updates.
There are things from other animation software feature I need there.

[DevinAdint]

When you say industry standard it depends on the industry and the country. In Japan and Asia in generall the industry standard was Retas also made by Celsys. Celsys made Comic Studio which they then merged with another drawing program they purchased to become Clip Studio in which they also merged the 2d animation abilities of Retas. So Clip Studio and several others are used in Asia for animation. In the US it depends on the industry. In the marketing and internet games industry usually Adobe Animate is used. However the industry standard for actual broadcast or streamed animated episodes or movies is Toon Boom in the United States and other countries. It should be noted that the term Industry Standard should not be taken to mean the only tool used. Animators often use multiple tools for various stages of development.

[delimeatart]

These softwares aren't really comparable. One is an animation specific software and other isn't. A Better comparison would have been ToonBoom Harmony vs Animate (Toonboom wins lol)

But back on topic, Even though Clip studio paint wasn't technically designed for animation, it's Illustrative roots have far more natural feeling to them, giving Traditional Animation a compete edge over Animate. The thing about Clip studio is you can use it for every stage of the animation process from Pre production To some Post production if you know how to work with filters and blending modes. (Most animes just use a screen for goodness sake) Animate/Flash (if used for traditional animation) is more of just a production tool. You have to scan in drawings or use another software to sketch your motion, THEN ink them in Animate. Animate/Flash has some of the worst brushes in any industry software which actually makes it horrible for drawing.

However (like the video stated) it depends on what you're going for. If you're going for more corporate animation/ game animation/ puppetry animation, HTML stuff, use animate ( even if animate isnt that good at what it does best. It doesn't even have Mesh Deformation for crying out loud!) it DOES however handle recycled assets really well, but honestly all of the Adobe Softwares are still in use basically because of stockholm sindrome. Most of them aren't even that good by other softwares that have been released after 2010. The only Adobe Softwares honestly worth your time anymore I guess is Photoshop and After Effects, everything else is just kinda butt.

Clipstudio paint definitely needs updates, yes. But because it's an illustrative program first, it handles SO Many things better than flash ever will. It's timeline is pretty good, BUT you can use Folders as animation cells, You can organize animations in folders. You can select everything in every single layer using the object tool and adjust animations in real time, You can do post processing effects on one layer, You can put ALL stages of a character animation in one frame. There are other far better animation softwares that WISHES it could do that. As laggy as the software could be I cannot deny how incredible it's QOL stuff is if you give it time to learn it.

Source: Professional animator, Used flash for over 10 years/ CSP for 5 years

[FOF]

This video sold me on Clip Studio Paint. I've been using Photoshop for years now and tried to start animating with it and found it glitchy and frustrating. Seeing that CSP has 3d models to help with sketches really caught my attention

[TheKevphil]

I would think that *Toon Boom HARMONY* is _really_ the "industry standard" for pro-level animation work. Just as an aside: Clip Studio is used for some Japanese anime contract work in the Philipines.

[vicstat]

The comparison is great I think the only missing part is thatCSP is a super powerful tool for drawing so besides the animation panel you can create a much more artistic customized look using either render and vector brushes! I think this is unique. I am not sure if Animate allows to draw using Photoshop brushes, but in the other hand Animate is much more simplified. I like both but as an artist I prefer CSP.

[max_servin]

Another option how anímate have but CSP dosn't have it's the multiplane.

U will animate in CSP with keyframe and create a fake paralax efect, but do not have a 3D camara :'( I think, the only basic tool how need CSP it's there.

PD: i'm sorry if my english it's bad, but i'm from Mexico and i did start to learn it.

[Ilovemelonss]

I've been using animate for two years now and I've always wanted to switch over to CSP or Toonboom to get that anime look/style. I just wish that CSP had something akin to symbols in animate and I would gladly switch over, though I'll still defo try CSP and see how that goes.

[stemen]

Clip Studio is now a rent-ware software
well not right now, but the software creators just announced that next year, version 2.0 will be released, and will start being a monthly or yearly pay to use.

[reinantewhisper]

Have u investigated about Retas Studio? It's Clip Studio by the same Celsys company but more precisely and has another good features only for animation.

[athegodofanime]

Great video!! Keep up the amazing work!👍✨

[zenyfilmsrambo]

I MAKE MY CARTOONS IN CLIP STUDO PRO EX IT IS THE BEST IT HELPS ME A LOT AND IS EASY I RECOMMEND IT THE ONLY THING IS THAT IT DOES NOT USE VECTOR LAYERS BUT IN THE END THE BEST ANIMATIONS WE HAVE SEEN ARE RASTER LAYERS NOT VECTORS THAT'S WHY I STAY WITH CLIP STUDIO

[christianr.]

I animate on an ipad so this is basically just to see the how clip studio stacks up to animate since there's no native ipad app for ipad yet for some reason

[ezequiel]

you can set up a macros for copying the past frame on scp, your welcome

[mostafafarweez]

I really like your videos and this 1 too :) Please make a video on the special effects and capabilities of animation software and comparison. Like Toon Boom Harmony effects with it's camera capabilities in animation, and compare it to to other animation software in their effects and camera for animation, please :)

[L.E.K]

Do one for rough animator vs flipaclip

[blergg]

Hello, I have a question. I want to make animations like videos from theood1sout or jaimen animations, but also animations like Deadly Comics or Blackie Sootfur (sorry if you don't know them), and could you tell me an app that I can animate like them?