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Celas Studio is now in Early Access!

Celas Studio · published 21 Aug 2026, 15:17 UTC

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What's in this release

After a long time in development, Celas Studio launches into Early Access on Steam today.

Celas Studio is a 2D animation app built for illustrators and animators. Vector shapes, painted raster cells, bone rigs, a keyframe timeline and a camera all live inside one project file. Your drawing, its rig, and its animation never have to leave the app.

Bone dynamics & wind physics
build your rig, let the physics engine handle secondary motion
Mesh deform
freely warp any artwork with a control grid
Vector + raster on one canvas
shape layers and infinite-size pixel layers side by side
Vector boolean & weld
union/subtract/intersect, liquid-shape merging, interactive welded-vertex animation
Advanced timeline & graph editor
per-channel curves, easing intervals, split & trim
Non-destructive layer effects
outline, glow, shadow, clipping alpha
Full camera system
multiplane pan and zoom moves
PSD & SVG import
layer structure stays intact

No feature is locked behind an add-on or a higher tier. One license, the full toolset.

About Early Access

Version 0.9.0 is under active development. Some panels and options may move or change before 1.0. Updates currently ship only through Steam.

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