A variety of common poses and 3D hand gestures are included. 3D models of manga girl and boy teens are clothed with swappable outfits, expressions, and head details. Guidelines on these models assist in designing outfits.
Artists can alter female and male models and then pose them using the built-in character rigging. The 3D human models are a new and welcome reference. Manga Studio 5 comes loaded with zip tones and effects for comics which artists now can color for effect.
For example, artists can vary anti-aliasing with the ink tool. For creating comics, vector snapping of panels, type and speech balloons helps to layout a comic page.
New brushes for watercolor, oil and pastel are familiar to Painter users. Artists can create custom brushes and share them. The airbrush tool creates multiple effects for painting. Ink and pencil drawing tools have improved control options. Similar to Photoshop, the layers panel comes with new options such as Clip Layer, Multiply, Quick Mask, and more. Manga Studio 5 showcases new coloring tools. Desktop view of the new Manga Studio 5 user interface and panels with artwork by Karen Luk.
