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Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes to help you create digital comics from page setup to exporting the final product

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785881077
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liz Staley Liz Staley
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating and Manipulating Pages and Page Templates 2. Customizing Brushes FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting a Handle on Vectors 4. Using the Layer Modes 5. Making Selections and Layer Masks 6. Using New Rulers and Line Tools 7. Adding and Creating Tones and Materials 8. Playing with Color Palettes 9. Creating Special Effects 10. Using 3D Objects 11. Exporting the Finished Product Index

Customizing characters

So far, we've played with 3D model characters and kept them as the defaults that they come in. But what if we could customize these characters and make them unique? Manga Studio 5 has options for changing not only some of the expressions and hair of the default characters that come loaded in the materials library, but also the proportions of the character. This means that we can do much more with 3D characters and make drawing dolls for our own characters as well—complete with the correct proportions!

Getting ready

Follow the instructions given in the Adding existing 3D objects to a page recipe before following the steps in this recipe.

How to do it…

Let's make a custom character look with the following recipe:

  1. Make sure that the Object tool under Operation is selected.
  2. Click on the 3D character model you wish to change.

    Note

    The first part of this recipe works only with those character models that are included in Manga Studio 5. The Male and Female...

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