a drawing program that thinks in frames

Draw a frame. Tap forward. Draw the next one.

A pen-first canvas and a real dope sheet in one window. The drawing half and the timing half of the job, without leaving for another program halfway through.

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Color
Palette
Values
R30
G30
B40
#1E1E28
Tools
1:1+ 0.0° Stabs‑7 ⌄
TITLE: Untitled
SC: SCENE 1
CUT: 01
TIME: 0+05 (24)
PAGE: 1/1
HD FRAME 16:9 · sheet overlay on
Scenes
▾ SCENE 1 · 1 cut
0124 f · 3 layers
Brush · Ink Pen
BrushEraserFill
Ink Pen
Textured Pencil
Splatter Ink
Marker
Airbrush
Eraser
Import brush…
Size7
Hardness50
Opacity100
Flow50
Pen dynamics
Press>SzPress>FlSpeed>SzTilt>Sz
Camera
X 0 · Y 0
W 1754 · H 987 · 16:9 locked
key 1 · ease in‑out
☑ show frame on canvas
Timeline · Dope Sheet · C 01 key hold loop
line0
color0
bg0
camera1
(no audio)
Brush · Ink Pen · 7 px1754 × 1240 · RGBA8 ◀◀ ◀ ▶ ▶▶ loop cutframe 006 / 024 24 fpsZoom 47%
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The one that feels best to draw in usually isn't the one that knows what a frame is.

So people bounce between two programs: rough it where the pen feels right, then re-time it somewhere that understands exposure. Douga is an attempt at one program that does both — and doesn't make you choose.

where you draw

Pressure that means what you expect, brushes you can add to, a stabilizer for the long line.

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where you time

A real dope sheet — keys, holds, loops, exposure on ones or twos, onion skin either side.

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the whole thing

Six things that already work

brush engine

Lines your hand won't make

Fifteen presets — ink, pencil, charcoal, watercolor, a smudge that pushes paint — plus a stabilizer and a brush creator. Share one as a .dbrush.

dope sheet

Retime by dragging

Keys, holds and loops per layer. Expose on ones or twos; onion skin the frames either side, warm and cool.

scenes & cuts

A film, not a flipbook

A project holds scenes, a scene holds cuts, a cut holds its own layers and length. Reorder without renumbering.

color & palette

A color model that travels

Wheel, RGB/HSV, a managed palette. Export it as a .dpal and hand it to the next film.

undo

Undo that behaves

Steps back through structure as well as strokes. Delete a cut by accident, one press brings the cut back.

save & export

One file in, anything out

One .douga per project. In: images, GIF, video, audio, pose packs. Out: PNG sequence, GIF, APNG, X‑sheet PDF, or MP4 with its audio via ffmpeg.

動画 · douga — the inbetween drawings of a Japanese animation pipeline made by one person, Kei Hoag · r/douga · tell me what broke · license · privacy