Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Mar 8, 2014

  I wish I had read the forum for this program first, teaches me. This guy summarize what I would like to say so I just quote it here instead of adding curses every second phrase. Edit: Extensive downloadable content is at time being.... not existing. There is a few downloadable crap items on their webpage... but as a steam subscriber, you dont have access to them, so, their not available atall. Quote from forum (Poster: Not a bear) Do NOT buy this program! Massive ripoff and extremely limited! Let me be straight with you, I bought this program from the official site shortly after it came out years ago for $50. It was a gigantic waste of money. Here's the deal. First off, the program is insanely limited. You are given virtually no freedom whatsoever to design or pose your characters. By default the ONLY outfits are school uniforms in only a couple colors and identical styles. There's maybe less than 10 different hair styles per gender and only a handful of hair and eye colors. The poses for your characters are fixed and you cannot freely move them at all, and there's only a few dozen poses to work with. There's also a problem with layering. For example, if you wanted two characters to hug each other... well, you can't, because every character is on it's own layer. You cannot pose two characters "together" and have them wrap their arms around each other or something. There's also no real guideline for perspective either so it's really hard to measure characters' positions if they're not at roughly the same distance in the background. The backgrounds, comic effects and the like are all acceptable. Very little to complain about there. Aside from the fact that there's quite a few backgrounds that simply do not match with the character designs as they're basically just photos that have been run through photoshop filters to look more animated. But there's more problems. For example the text input has no option to center your text, so all of your text must be manually centered. The program is also extremely slow and takes a long time to load pages and export things even if you have no custom assets on the page. Speaking of custom assets, there's a 3D model importing feature, but it only allows models done in a very specific format and in my experience, half the time they don't import properly and either come out incomplete or outright invisible. But possibly the worst part of the entire program is the DLC and lack of updates. Here's an interesting fact - the Japanese version came out well over a year before the English version did, and when the English version did come out, it launched with LESS CONTENT than the day 1 Japanese version did. Their excuse was that the English version was cheaper, so they didn't want the Japanese people to just download the English version. They felt it was more appropriate to give the foreigners an outdated product. It was SEVERAL MONTHS with absolutely NO updates to the program before we even got what was available AT LAUNCH for the Japanese version. Of course, by then, the Japanese version was more than a year and a half ahead of the English version in updates and features. I would not doubt that this has continued to be the case. But it gets worse. The Japanese version had several extra packs of free props to insert into your scenes released prior to the English launch. Several of these did make it into the English release for free, however they actually had the nerve to charge foreigners extra for some of them. When they first launched this pack, it was $15, which again, cost nothing to the Japanese users. Then there's all the other DLC. If you want to make ANYTHING besides a generic school life series in precisely one single outfit, then they expect you to shell out extra money for crap that should have been in the program from the beginning for free. Well, then again, you can't make anything beyond generic school life series. You've got packs of more school uniforms, some casual clothes, some swimsuits, and stuff like that. And they expect you to pay extra for all of it. It's a ripoff, plain and simple, and even worse is that you get very little for the outrageous prices of the packs. A couple new outfits and a couple colors per pack. I don't know how much they run for these days, but they were about $15-$20 when they came out. For each one. And there was like 5 or 6 of them. On top of the $50 program. In summary, DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. It's too limited to be of any use, you will be mocked for using it and no one will take any of your comics seriously, and it's just plain a complete ripoff and not worth the money at all. Avoid at all costs.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 10, 2014

  I should have read the reviews before buying this. It is so limited in choices that its basically unusable unless youre trying to do some school yard short story, because literally all of the clothing choices are school uniforms. You have to pay for the rest of the DLC, which is free to japanese users, but not anyone else, and even with the DLC, the options are still insanely limited. And with no return policy, i am now stuck with completely useless software. DO NOT BUY THIS! It is not worth the money.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 17, 2014

  Must read review from a die-hard anime/manga fan: Save the money, folks.... unless it goes on sale again. [Edit]: I did find at least one redeeming feature for this program... I do like that you can make simple things using this. So lets say you want a game ID, PC wallpaper or want to design a T-shirt with simple anime characters, but can't draw (like me), this program can actually come in handy for that. Or like some other reviews said, as references if you CAN draw. Otherwise, my review still stands.... This has so much potential that wasn't really realized, so I'm still disappointed. But at least I can make a few banners with this thing, so I guess the money wasn't totally wasted...? [Now my old review:] And I purchased it because it was on sale, figured at less than 1/2 the price, maybe it'd be worth a shot? Figured I could use it for character creation, not manga creation.... Even then.... As other reviews have stated it is very, very limited. The DLC's show many 'new options', but in reality they add about 1 new article of clothing to the characters.... Not anything significant at this point. I would be satisfied if the DLC was free, and they promised to release more/better DLC packs.... But no dice. Might record some 'gameplay' of this, so people can see what they'd be getting into before they actually do. The game came directly from Japan, so at the very least I suppose I helped with the economy a slight bit? I love Japan, but I'd rather have something I can really work with. Even if I didn't write any manga or anything, I'd really love to be able to create entirely custom characters as references for tabletop games, instruction manuals, etc. Even at a discount.... I'm really kinda regretting purchasing this now. And a DLC pack (had to see if it changed anything...) Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll update someday with more (& better) software.... But I doubt it, sadly.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 12, 2017

  Do not buy this. Don't do it. It's underwhelming and nearly impossible to find GOOD QUALITY mods for your created characters. The character creation is limited... extremely limited. Do not buy unless you are going to create a slice of life manga and you every character to look the same. An underwhelming product.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2014

  it can be kinda fun but it is very limited on what you can do so i was dissapointed by it i did get it on sale but even 35 dollars it was not worth it and for 49:99 it is really not worth it :C
• gamedeal user

  Sep 23, 2015

  This software is actually very good for what it claims to be able to do, easy to use and great for someone who has trouble with the art side of comics-based storytelling. That being said, there are still many flaws that relegate this program to my 'Only buy when it's on sale' list. As most reviews will tell you, there are actually very few options for clothing and hair short of importing your own custom models, and most of their clothes listed count every recolor as a new outfit entierly. The limited hair options also don't help, but thankfully you can import any .obj file as a custom 3d object and simply place it as you need from there. Also, the limited posing features are a bit annoying until you start figuring out the best way to fully utilize them, a process that takes quite a long time. There appears to be a free custom facial-expression maker provided by the creators of the software, but some support for custom pose models would be appreciated. Overall, I recommend that you buy this ON SALE ONLY, when it's in the $20 range. You will definetly get your money's worth that way. Also, make sure to read the DLC descriptions carefully, as they count a recolor of an existing outfit as a new outfit entierly, and this leads to some annoyance when you think you're getting a better selection of clothes than you actually are.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 27, 2015

  I do recommend buying this software if you really dream to build your own comic, but not at its full price. The lack of character customization and of models available make ComiPo! feel more like a demo than the real deal -- there are DLC and mods that can kinda fix that, though. Kinda. Nevertheless, its interface is easy to master and the level of possibilities with the contrasting limited dummies is astonishing high. Get it as soon as it is on sale. 7/10.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 16, 2015

  It's a fine program with many limitations, but may not be useful for everyone, here's an extended review for the potential costumer and hopefully feedback for the devs. ComiPo by it's own grounds is very limited, you can't edit the character's height, proportions, width, etc. so you'll never see old people looking old, nor a younger character looking younger from the rest, so you've got all cookie cutter models, you can't even adjust parameters such as eye size and such (I wanted to adjust the chin and cheek width so badly but I can't). There's not many customization options, there's some very limited set of accsesories and hair styles, so the combinations end up very limited, you can't customize the colors of items or clothing either (altough there's some very nice filters for the final images), so far it seems like there's no in-game option to change the character's skin colours. The DLCs barely add anything to the mix, I bought a bundle, I think it contained 2 or 3 DLCs and when I used the program it felt as if I didn't had any DLCs, as they are pretty missleading telling you they offer a two digit amount of clothing each, but in the end it's just 1-2 clothes palette swapped, if they allowed you to recolor the clothing it would be very helpful and add many possibilities, but as it is, the DLC is good to have but not a must buy. Now, with all this said, you may be wondering why I recommend this program. To me it's helpful, I like to draw to relax, I use CSP, but the dummies included (on CSP) are extremely hard to pose (altough more versatile), but it consumes A LOT of time to get the desired pose and angle to me at least, so I prefer to use this, make a vanilla character, pose it as I need, convert to png and use as reference on CSP, on the downside, even when there are a lot of poses here, camera angles and such (which btw is very fast compared to CSP's), they arn't very flexible, you can rotate the head and such, but (may be a newb mistake here, so I apologize if I'm mistaken, I'll make sure to edit if I find out later on) it seems like you can't rotate hands or other body parts. With that said, I think the devs can have a very nice and versatile program if they work on it, specially the customization options, Steam workshop for this would be awesome to allow people to upload their models and such. To the costumer: if you want a quirky program to have a giggle and such, this may be for you, if you need some quick reference dummies like me, this works as well, but if you're looking for something serious to do comics and such, you may not find what you're looking in here (mainly the customization, it's so limited, otherwise the filters are awesome). To the devs: I think the hardest part is done (the core software), just add more customization options (body proportions and clothing), more interactions betwen models, more hair, and accesories and such and you'll have a solid program backed by a clean and intuitive interface, just stop with the DLCs please as they barely add anything, they're quite expensive and may be overwhelming to the new users, unless you plan to add more to the current DLCs so they're more worthy of buying and owning, as it is, it's just not worth it. Also some glitches need to be fixed, it's kind of silly that firefox and ComiPo can't co-exist without comipo crashing. I hope this review helps potential costumers with their purchase and the devs on improving the experience so we can get a better product. Cheers!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 8, 2017

  For some people, this will be great but you cant make custom poses. All my ideas for what i wanted to make went out the window when i realised. Missing such a basic feature.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 8, 2014

  There's very limited options in this software, I just got it hopping for good refrence poses, but apperently they're not customizeable and they're preset. Which really dissapointed me, Though the only thing I find use for it for is poses and refrences to brush up your manga / anime art skills or for trying to set up mock enviroments, but yeah its not really recommended considering there's very little customizing.