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Now in Your Language, Only on Coloso!
Learn from Top Creative Experts Worldwide
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Develop Your Manga Style
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Dynamic Character Drawing
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Master Manga Drawing Techniques
Let Go of Perfectionism, Finish What You Start: A Storytelling Method for Both Animation and Manga
DecoponMAGI is a manga artist who has spent 28 years on the front lines of weekly serialization as a chief assistant, and whose animation work has earned hundreds of thousands of likes.
In this class, DecoponMAGI teaches you how to build your own IP from scratch by working across multiple skill areas. Centered on the idea of finishing a piece at 70% completion rather than not finishing at all, this class walks you through a complete production flow: turning a single idea into both an anime and a manga.
In this class, DecoponMAGI teaches you how to build your own IP from scratch by working across multiple skill areas. Centered on the idea of finishing a piece at 70% completion rather than not finishing at all, this class walks you through a complete production flow: turning a single idea into both an anime and a manga.
First, you'll use the smallest possible unit of story to write a complete text plot from beginning to end. From there, you'll arrange the scenes you want to draw in chronological order to build a rough storyboard that serves as the foundation for both media.
Next, you'll design your characters and world using silhouettes. Then, combining camera lens knowledge with a spatial drawing technique that isn't bound by perspective lines, you'll finish a convincing, cinematic layout in clean line art.
Finally, you'll rebuild that layout and output it into two different formats: an animatic and manga thumbnails. You'll finish by drawing the key visual that represents the completed work, wrapping up the entire process of bringing a story to its conclusion.
Come experience at Coloso the finishing power it takes to push through setbacks and give your story its final form.
Next, you'll design your characters and world using silhouettes. Then, combining camera lens knowledge with a spatial drawing technique that isn't bound by perspective lines, you'll finish a convincing, cinematic layout in clean line art.
Finally, you'll rebuild that layout and output it into two different formats: an animatic and manga thumbnails. You'll finish by drawing the key visual that represents the completed work, wrapping up the entire process of bringing a story to its conclusion.
Come experience at Coloso the finishing power it takes to push through setbacks and give your story its final form.
Class Preview
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15. Try Your Hand at Concept Art
- Concept art even beginners can draw
- What exactly is concept art?
- Generating ideas through thumbnail sketches
- The bare minimum rules for drawing concept art
- Drawing concept art with just 70% knowledge and confidence
- What exactly is concept art?
- Generating ideas through thumbnail sketches
- The bare minimum rules for drawing concept art
- Drawing concept art with just 70% knowledge and confidence
Class Perks
Special Gift from DecoponMAGI
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Unlimited access to all 32 chapters, packed with DecoponMAGI's story-design know-how -
Complete one finished piece over the course of the class -
Get materials like the key visual's Clip Studio working file
Class Material Details
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Study Materials- A fill-in-the-blank worksheet for building your smallest-unit story
- The original rough storyboard for ‘Welcome to Yokai Hot Spring Village,’ the two-day sample piece featured in this class
- Rough storyboard PDF and final storyboard PDF
- A storyboard PDF with cleaned-up, finished layouts -
Practice Materials- Full animatic in MP4 format, plus the ToonSquid project file
- The manga version (in bande dessinée style)
- The key visual's Clip Studio working file
- Character design and world-building reference materials in Clip Studio format
Recommendation
Who should take this class?
Beginner artists who struggle to turn ideas into finished stories
Aspiring cartoonists who want to develop their own original stories
Artists who want to improve storytelling across manga and animation
Expert Manga Artist DecoponMAGI's Portfolio
Why Take This Class?
Break through the biggest hurdle in original storytelling: turning ideas into finished work. From plot and storyboarding to character design, layout, and final artwork, follow a practical workflow that helps you stop overthinking, embrace 70% completion, and actually bring your stories to life.
Go beyond a single medium by learning how to develop one story for both manga and animation. With hands-on practice in composition, character design, and visual storytelling, build the confidence to complete your own original work from concept to finished piece.
Get Ready for the Real World
Explore the Creative Process from Concept to Completion
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Skill-Building Basics -
How to Generate Ideas -
Drafting a Short Story
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Other Story Formats
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Creating a Storyboard
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Human Figure Drawing Basics
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Character Design B -
World-Building Design
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How to Draw Layouts
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Perspective Drawing Basics -
Understanding Wide-Angle and Telephoto Lenses
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‘Spatial Beat’: A Drawing Technique That Skips Perspective Lines
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Applying the ‘Spatial Beat’ Drawing Method
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Creating an Animatic
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Creating Animation
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Creating Manga Thumbnails
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[Example A: Complete] Yokai Hot Spring Village
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[Example B: Complete] Desert Drive
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[Example C: Complete] The Old-Fashioned Uncle in a Cyberpunk World
Key Visual
[Animation Complete] The Girl of Yokai Hot Spring Village
*The above images are sample images for a better understanding.
Highlights
Class Highlights
Let Go of Perfectionism and Lower the Bar! The ‘Finishing Power’ That Completes Your Work
Even if each step feels small, keep taking them and your project will get finished. This class values finishing what you start, even at 70% quality, above all else. The experience of actually seeing something through becomes the foundation for your next challenge. Here, you'll learn a realistic mindset and process for carrying a project all the way to completion instead of stopping partway.
See the Whole Picture, From Idea to Finished Work! A Workflow That Crosses Boundaries
From dreaming up a short story to writing the text plot, drawing the storyboard, building the animatic, designing the layout, animating, drawing the manga, and finishing the key visual, DecoponMAGI walks you through every stage solo. By touching on neighboring fields, you'll gain the perspective needed to judge a project as a whole.
Master ‘Layout’ Drawing With the Secrets of ‘Spatial Beat,’ an Incredibly Powerful Drawing Technique
You'll learn ‘Spatial Beat,’ a little-known spatial drawing technique developed by Yasuo Muroi of Anime Shijuku, who mentored DecoponMAGI in drawing. Because the Spatial Beat method doesn't rely on perspective lines, it lets you draw relaxed, natural, and believable scenery with ease and enjoyment. Using this incredibly powerful technique, which offers strengths that traditional perspective methods don't, DecoponMAGI will teach you how to draw layouts.
