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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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 halves of the job.
Pressure that means what you expect, brushes you can add to, a stabilizer for the long line.
A real dope sheet — keys, holds, loops, exposure on ones or twos, onion skin either side.
Six things that already work
Fifteen brushes and a stabilizer
Ink, pencil, charcoal, watercolor, a smudge that pushes paint — plus a brush creator. Share one as a .dbrush.
Retime by dragging
Keys, holds and loops per layer. Expose on ones or twos; onion skin the frames either side, warm and cool.
Scenes hold cuts, cuts hold layers
A cut carries its own layers and its own length. Reorder them without renumbering anything by hand.
A palette the project keeps
Wheel, RGB/HSV, a managed palette. Export it as a .dpal and hand it to the next film.
Undo knows you deleted a cut
It steps back through structure as well as strokes. Lose a cut by accident and one press brings it back.
Save one file, export any format
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.