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About Clip Studio Assets

You can use Clip Studio Assets to search and download materials such as brushes, pens, patterns, and 3D materials for Clip Studio Paint, or to publish your own original materials.

Using Clip Studio Assets

You can use it from Clip Studio Start through material or Assets links, or by web browser on tablet, PC, or smartphone.
You will need a Clip Studio account to download materials for Clip Studio and to publish or edit your materials.

  • If you have not installed Clip Studio, you will not be able to use the “Download”, “New Upload”, or “Edit” buttons.

See how to download materials depending on your device from the articles below.

See the article below to find out where downloaded materials are saved.

Material usage rules

Please review the Assets Terms of Service "Permitted Use of Materials" for details. Please also refer to the following article.

Clippy and GOLD Materials

Clippy GOLD Materials
Upload requirements Anyone (up to 20,000 Clippy) Qualified material creators only (up to 20,000 GOLD)
Downloading materials Clippy required GOLD required
Earnings Exchange earned Clippy for codes or GOLD charge codes (up to 20,000 yen per month) Royalties based on price and number of downloads

How to use materials

For Clip Studio Paint Ver. 4.2 and later

You can automatically install downloaded materials in Clip Studio Paint from the Material palette menu > Auto-install downloaded materials. Materials downloaded from Clip Studio Assets will automatically install to the corresponding palette. The following materials can be automatically installed:

For Clip Studio Paint 4.1 and earlier, or materials that can’t be auto-installed

Downloaded materials will appear in the “Manage materials” screen in Clip Studio, as well as in the Download section of the Material palette in the app.

You can use image materials by dragging and dropping them on the canvas. Other materials like brushes need to be dragged and dropped onto a Tool (sub tool) palette first before it is available for use.

Other software

Extract the downloaded zip files.

About the menu

Log into Clip Studio Assets and tap on your profile image at the top right of the screen to access the menu.

Menu name Content
Favorites By selecting the star icon, you can view materials that have been added to your favorites.
Downloads This page shows your download and purchase history. You can re-download materials from this page. If a material is deleted by the publisher or administrator, the material will be marked as “Deleted".
Uploads View and manage your uploaded materials. 48 hours after your material is published, you can exchange Clippy tickets gained from your published materials. (Up to 200,000 Clippy a month for digital gift codes and GOLD charge codes.)
New upload You can publish your materials that have been uploaded from Clip Studio. You can earn up to 150 bonus Clippy tokens once a day by posting free materials.
Settings Pagination: Choose whether to load search results on Assets by scrolling or by pages.
Downloaded material name: Choose to download material names in their original language or by machine translation.
  • In the Edit menu, you can only edit the material’s information. Select “Update” if you would like to replace the material data or change the explanation and examples of use.
  • You can download your published materials from the Downloads page. You can download all your published materials including paid materials.

How to make materials

Find out how to make your own materials with the articles below.

Find out how to make your own material catalog with the article below.

How to publish materials

For Clip Studio materials

  • Tablet/PC: Double-click on the material you'd like to publish from Manage materials in Clip Studio, and select Publish to Assets.
  • Smartphone: Double-tap on the material you'd like to publish from the gear icon > Manage materials in Clip Studio Paint, and select Publish to Assets.
  • Tablet and PC only: If you'd like to post a material catalog, select it from the material catalog list. Click on the "Manage" button and select “Publish to Assets".
  • How to publish materials to Assets

For publishing other materials from a web browser

Please be aware of the following points:

  • Please post Clip Studio Paint materials such as .sut files (brush files) from Clip Studio.
  • Please use alphanumerical characters only for file and folder names.
  • You cannot publish material catalogs.
  • You cannot publish multiple files in a compressed file such as a zip file, except for some 3D files that are composed of multiple files in a single material. Please do not upload single files in compressed format. (They will be compressed into zip format automatically.)
  • Certain file types such as .pes (POSE STUDIO scene file) and .exe cannot be uploaded.

Please refer to the following for material categories:

  • Tones and vectors > Image material
  • 3D data > 3D object
  • Actions > Auto Action
  • Rulers > Tool settings (other)
  • Please do not write any guidelines for using the material in the explanation or instructions section (such as use in copyrighted material, display of the creators name, or redistribution). This may mislead users. Please check the Assets Terms of Service "Permitted Use of Materials" for details of the license scope of materials.

Please read the following before posting your materials.

How to update materials

You can update materials to edit or replace the material data. Upload the replacement material, then go to the previous version and edit it from the "Update” command.

When updating a material, the following information will be carried over to the new version.

  • Number of downloads
  • Number of likes
  • Clippy tickets earned
  • Purchase/Download History
  • The material’s purchase/download history is transferred over updates. Users will get a notification when a material is updated, so they can download it again for free.
  • Update downloads are also included in the total number of downloads, so this number may not reflect the number of purchases.

Content rating

Publishers can set a content rating for materials with sensitive content. Please see “Rating Standards” for details on how the content rating should be applied. Publishers can also add content ratings to materials that are not covered by the Rating Standards.

  • You can choose whether to display rated materials in your Account settings > Content filter.

Limited license materials

These are materials published by Celsys with specified usage terms. There may be restrictions on commercial use or specific usage requirements. Please read the terms of use before using these materials.
Limited license materials have the phrase “Limited license” in the thumbnail image.

  • See a list of limited license materials here.

Clip Studio Paint Monthly/Annual plan bonus

Users of certain monthly or annual plans and new subscribers can claim free Clip Studio official materials from Clip Studio Assets as part of their plan.

  • For more details, please see here.

Refer to our Support page for frequently asked questions about materials. You can also ask other users via Clip Studio Ask, or submit requests and bug reports from Clip Studio Support.

Important notes when posting to Clip Studio Assets

Please review the Posting and Behavioral Guidelines. The following is an overview. Please take note of these guidelines especially when uploading text or images.

  • Do not post content for which you do not own the intellectual property rights (copyrights).
  • The copyrights for any content posted on this service must belong to the user who made the post.
  • Posts must not be in violation of any laws.
  • Do not post content containing child pornography or abuse, or excess sexual content.
  • Do not post content which promotes discrimination or ideologies (such as that based on religion, politics, race, occupation, gender, etc.).
  • Do not post content that may be offensive to others.
  • Do not post content that is not related to the service.
  • We cannot respond to requests to delete any content posted by multiple users (such as questions and answers).
  • By posting to this service, you accept that Celsys may make changes including but not limited to altering, editing, or translating the content as necessary.
  • Users bear responsibility for any content they post. Please respond in good faith to questions from other users.
  • This service provides a report feature. When a post is reported, the user of the post will be contacted by Celsys. If you are contacted by Celsys about your post, please follow the directions given.
  • Please refrain from other problematic behavior or posts other than that directly covered in the rules, policies or guidelines. Please behave in a respectful and kind manner.