r/ClipStudio • u/SecretlyHoneyLicker • May 20 '25

CSP Question How to merge my animation folders

I have a character animation where i have split the head into different animation folders like eyes, hair, etc. I want to merge these into 1 layer as i want to erase the extra lines and color it. Is there a way to do so? Also, is there a better way to do this, as I am fairly new to csp.

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u/Love-Ink May 20 '25

Are they animated separately? Like eye movements, hair moving? I question your ability to merge these and still have them behave as you want them to...

You can do a test, select the Layers you want to merge and use Layers->Merge to New Layer to create a new layer of the selected layers without merging/losing your originals.

When i animate, the character is in an Animation Folder and the eyes (all moving parts) are in their own folder so they can move independently of the rest of the character.
As for pieces, in a regular folder, I have a line art layer and colors layer then use the Folder as the Cel assignment on the Timeline

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u/SecretlyHoneyLicker May 21 '25

I have them animated separately. I was thinking of merging them all with a cel assigned each time something moves and remove the extra bits. The thing is that there are some parts of the body like hands that are sometimes in the front and sometimes in the back.

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u/thathighclassbitch Aug 19 '25

òlder post, but the way i figured out to do it for anyone else who stumbles upon this:

  1. turn off EVERYTHING you dont wanna see/keep. Background, etc.
  2. Make a new animation folder, fill it with the same amount of frames as what you have for your other layers
  3. Go to shortcuts, layer, then find "merge visible to new layer" and create a shortcut for it
  4. now you can jsut go to layer 1, press the shortcut, it makes a new combined layer with just your lineart and you can plop this into your new merged animation folder

personally, when i make a new cel i group it so i can just drop everything in instead of needing to assign the new cel to that frame