Amarios Art Academy - Lesson 1-4 AS6-Debut Quick Start

Aug 21, 2026

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This Quick Start tutorial provides an overview of how Anime Studio Debut 6 works and guides learners through creating an initial simple drawing and animation. It introduces core tool groups such as Draw, Fill, Bone, Layer, Camera, and Workspace, then demonstrates selecting shape tools, changing fill and stroke colors, and using timeline keyframes. Learners apply point translation and layer rotation, reset transformations, and use playback controls to preview the finished animation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages41

Reading Time1 h 43 min

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Tutorial 1.1: A Quick Run-through

Drawing a Simple Shape

Changing the Color of Your Shape

Simple Animation

Tutorial 1.2: Drawing Simple Shapes

Creating a Background

Anime Studio Users Manual 1 Anime Studio Debut 6 Quick Start 2 Anime Studio Users Manual Quick Start Tutorial 1.1: A Quick Run-through This tutorial quickly runs through the major features of Anime Studio, without going into too much detail. The purpose here is more to give an overview of how Anime Studio works, rather than to teach you how to use any specific features. In this tutorial, we will draw and animate avery simple object. Anime Studio has several groups of tools, used for different types of tasks. Some of these tools are used to create new objects, and others are used to modify and animate existing objects. The basic Anime Studio tool groups are: Draw, Fill, Bone, Layer, Camera, and Workspace. This tutorial introduces a few of the Draw, Fill, and Layer tools, while the following tutorials focus specifically on each of the tool groups. Drawing a Simple Shape Launch Anime Studio by double-clicking the Anime Studio icon, or selecting the Anime Studio shortcut in the Start menu (Windows) . When you create a new Anime Studio project, the application starts off looking something like this: The Anime Studio interface. Choose File > New to create a new project, and then click the current tool icon (just beneath the File menu), to select Reset All Tools. This puts all tools at their default settings so that you can follow along with this tutorial. Select the Draw Shape tool by clicking on it in the toolbar. Quick Start Anime Studio Users Manual 3 Draw Shape Select the Oval shape from the Draw Shape tool options. Oval shape tool. The Style panel on the right side of the Anime Studio interface allows you to select fill and stroke colors for the shapes you draw. To select a fill color, click the Fill color square to open a color palette. Select the fill color you want to use, and click OK. Changing the Fill color. Click and drag in the main window to create a circle shape. Hold the Shift key while dragging to force the shape to be a circle, rather than an oval. Try to keep the circle within the blue rectangle (this rectangle represents the visible area of your project) . Note that the circle will automatically fill with color when the Auto Fill option is checked as shown in the previous figure. If you’re not happy with your circle, just select the Edit > Undo command from the menu bar. Your circle should look something like this: Your first Anime Studio drawing. Quick Start 4 Anime Studio Users Manual Changing the Color of Your Shape If you want to change the fill color, choose the Select Shape tool from the Fill toolbar. Select Shape tool. Click the fill color of the circle that you drew. Then select a new color from the Style panel, similar to the way that you selected the color in the previous steps. You can also change the color of the outline by changing the Stroke color in a similar manner. Simple Animation When you animate in Anime Studio, you move objects around and set up keyframes-points in time at which an object has a certain position. At points in time between keyframes, Anime Studio automatically computes the position of all objects. Near the top of the Timeline window is a ruler that displays frame numbers in the animation. Click the number 36 to set the current time to frame 36. Quick Start The timeline. Next, choose Edit > Select None from the menu bar. Pick the Translate Points tool from the toolbar. Translate Points Click and drag the bottom point of the circle upward to distort the circle into a shape that looks like this: Moving a single point. Now pick the Rotate Layer tool from the Layer section of the Tools panel. Rotate Layer Click and drag in the main window until everything rotates into a position similar to the one below: Anime Studio Users Manual Moving an entire layer. Back in the timeline, click frame number 72 in the ruler to change the current time. Next, select Draw > Reset All Points fro

FAQs

What is the goal of Tutorial 1.1 in Anime Studio Debut 6 Quick Start?

Tutorial 1.1 quickly reviews the major features of Anime Studio and focuses on an overview of how the program works rather than teaching every specific tool in depth.

How do you draw a circle using the Draw Shape tools?

Select the Oval option from the Draw Shape tool, click and drag to create a shape, and hold Shift while dragging to force a circle. Keep it within the project’s visible area if a blue rectangle is shown.

How does Anime Studio create animation from keyframes?

Anime Studio animation is built by moving objects and setting keyframes at specific times. Between keyframes, the software automatically computes positions for all objects.

Aug 21, 2026

Uploaded by Terk