Celsys co-hosted the Animation Creative Technology Forum (ACTF) 2021 in TAAF with JAniCA and Wacom on Sat, March 13, and Sun, March 14, 2021. Celsys handed out an Animation Studio Drawing Template, streamed the Nippon Animation Digital Drawing Course, and exhibited at a booth on-site.
ACTF2021 was held as part of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF), with an online livestream and on-site exhibition making up the main draws. The event was accessed by about 300 people in animation, including animators, directors, production, and producers.
-Main Session Symposium: "The Future of Animation Formats"

(From the left, Mr. Todoroki, Mr. Saito, Mr. Kasugamori)
At the symposium during the main session, Todoroki Yasuhiro, moderator of the ACTF administration, Saito Seiji, system administrator of Studio HIBARI, and Kasugamori Haruki, animation director, spoke on "The Future of Animation Production Formats," noting that while digital production methods are becoming more widespread in animation, there are still no resolution nor drawing template standards. The panel also discussed how the format for animated productions should be defined in the future.
Prior to the ACTF, Celsys, with the cooperation of Toei Animation, Nippon Animation, Studio HIBARI, Kinema Citrus, and OLM, who all use
Clip Studio Paint as their digital drawing tool, revealed the templates used by each studio and talked about them during the symposium.
Mr. Saito: It was a meaningful effort for us to cooperate in the release of these templates. We have never had the opportunity to see all the studios’ templates side-by-side, so we feel that that is especially meaningful. It makes us want to develop the templates further. If you have a copy of Clip Studio Paint, it would be a good idea to download them just to see what each studio is doing.
Mr. Todoroki: I think it is a rare opportunity for all of our studios to share information about these kinds of templates. I believe these templates will help guide and design anime productions moving forward.
Mr. Kasugamori: Drawing digitally is a great benefit to us since it enables us to have productions with a small number of people and condenses the number of man-hours and checking cycles. However, when all the studios use different templates it makes it difficult for freelance directors to make informed decisions at the production site. I am very grateful that each of the templates have been made public in this way, because I can now look at the various templates of other studios and use the one that is easiest to work with.
-Animation Studio Drawing Templates
With the cooperation of Toei Animation, Nippon Animation, Studio HIBARI, Kinema Citrus, and OLM, which all use Clip Studio Paint as their digital drawing tool, we have made available the drawing template files actually used on the production floor and guides on how to use them. When introducing digital drawing into the animation process, variables such as frame size and resolution, which need to be standardized for the whole production, are set so that they can guide the setup of the production smoothly.
https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/4537
-Nippon Animation Digital Drawing Lecture Stream
Celsys streamed a lecture on Digital Animation by Nippon Animation using Clip Studio Paint.
Nippon Animation Digital Drawing Lecture (Animation Edition)
Based on the production process of the anime “Let’s Make A Mug Too” (Yakunara mug cup mo) that started airing in April 2021, they explained how to customize and use Clip Studio Paint in the process of animating and TP (tress paint) correction process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0H6_-ue9I
It is recommended you set up your workspace before watching the video, to make it easier to follow.
Nippon Animation Digital Drawing Lecture (Animation Edition) - Animation, TP Correction, Material Catalog
https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1826852
“Let’s Make a Mug Too” (Yakunara mug cup mo) Official Page
https://yakumo-project.com/
Nippon Animation Digital Drawing Lecture (Key Frame Edition)
The Nippon Animation Summer Digital Drawing Course (Key Frame Edition) held in July 2020 has been re-edited and rereleased as an archive video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtTnRanSSQ
It is recommended you set up your workspace before watching the video, to make it easier to follow.
Nippon Animation: Animation Material Catalog 2020
https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1773698
-Establishing Animator Space Tokyo and an Introduction to Novoo & Littlebit’s Anime Production Process
Production Setup and Workflow using Clip Studio Paint, the Toei Animation Digital Exposure Sheet and Fusion
At the exhibition and seminar on the 14th, Uda Hideo, CEO of Noovo Inc., and Omachi Nao, an engineer from Littlebit Inc., talked about the establishment of Animator Space Tokyo and the animation production flow used by Novo and LittleBit. They also introduced their production setup and the workflow for the short animation “Aoi Hane Mitsuketa", which was created using Clip Studio Paint, Toei Animation Digital Exposure Sheet, and Fusion.

(Exhibition and Seminar Content)
Mr. Omachi: In the past, the person in charge of the shooting process had to enter the exposure sheet information into the editing software manually, which took up a lot of man-hours. However, by using Clip Studio Paint, which can export exposure sheet information, and Toei Animation Digital Exposure Sheet, we can import the timesheet information digitally, allowing us to achieve a smoother workflow.