Whilst the Ex version seems aimed at professionals and is indeed endorsed and used by many of Tokyopop's artists, Debut offers the chance to get familiar with the software and aims to offer pretty much everything a small press/ indi manga artist could need.įor this review I am using a PC with an Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHZ, 520 MB RAM, NVIDIA G-Force 420 graphics card running on Windows 2000 and to draw I'm using an old A5 serial based Wacom Graphire Tablet. The Ex edition retails for $299 which is far more than ComicWorks, luckily Manga Studio also comes in a cut down Debut version which retails for a more reasonable $49.99. Now I suspect that the even the name of Manga Studio will no doubt cause some raising of eyebrows from fans debating the exact definition of manga considering it is an English language version aimed at the international market, for simple ease for this review I'll define manga as Japanese comics or those which are strongly influenced by Japanese manga techniques and styles.Į-frontier's Manga Studio 3.0 is far easier to get than Comicworks it can be ordered on CD from the website or major retailers such as Amazon as well as direct download versions. The How to Draw manga book series also has a series on Digital Toning which includes CDs with selections from the Computones range which fans might be familiar with as the tone series provided wirh How to Draw Manga's digital tone range, though I've yet to try importing any. Manga Studio isn't the only manga software package to make it into English Deleter’s Comicworks has also been translated but with the English portion of Deleter's site having been offline for sometime it's been difficult for fans to get hold of, and at $160 it's a pricey investment especially when further development of the English software seems under question. Manga Studio is a software package designed for the creation of manga styled comics, and is based upon the Japanese Comic studio package. In this review I look at Manga Studio 3.0 Debut and create my own page to see just how useful it actually is.
We're aware that many of our readers will at some point try to create their own "manga" and now so are several software publishers who are eager to fill the the gap in the market for Manga creation software.
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