Genga & Douga

[hyelakingsfan]

How many people know the difference?

I know now.

[lys]

One starts with a "G" and the other a "D"!

[hyelakingsfan]

One starts with a "G" and the other a "D"!

Good one lol

[Keropi]

I know the difference between a genga and a douga, but what's the difference between a sketch and a douga?

Nah...I'm just kidding. Pardon the little douga humor there.

[In_Gabriel_We_Trust]

These are words, often used by rappers to sound even more incomprehensible.
They are used at the beginning of question.
Ex. :
Douga know what time it is ?

Genga hand me the screw driver ?

[aernath]

I generally think Douga = drawing, Genga = great drawing

Anime Museum has the definitions, but I still have trouble if the paper in question isn't side by side.

[Joost]

Douga = where they make the cel of
Genga = drawing of character designer to show at the animators how it should look like
rough sketches = same principal as genga, to show how it would look like

I think thats right

[Baakay]

Sketch = what we call it when we can't dredge up the definition of either genga or douga from the recesses of the mind.

Same principle as the word "impacted." When you can't remember whether the correct word is "affected" or "effected", make up a new definition for an existing word!

[kittens]

I know what they mean in Japanese

genga = source drawings
douga = drawings for movements.

Is this count

[Joost]

dang, and me thinking I made the shortest discription

[zerospace]

Sketch = what we call it when we can't dredge up the definition of either genga or douga from the recesses of the mind.

hee, hee!! And here.. I just call them sketches out of pure laziness!!

[Moop]

Douga: The image you will see on a cel. The black pencil lines will become the black trace lines.

Genga is a little harder to define, because a lot of people use it in reference to all of the sketches that come before the douga. Technically, I think it's the key animator's final drawing for the key cel(s) in a sequence. In other words, every cel has a douga, but not every cel has a genga.

I hope.

[Keropi]

Of course here's the old plug for Keys' Little Anime Cel and Animation Art FAQ:

http://www.fukushuu.org/cels/celfaq.php?g=y

It took me awhile to finally get down the difference between genga, douga, layout, roughs, etc. I got them down after I bought a few of them and had them in hand. Until then I kept forgetting the differences.

[klet]

Why isn't there an option for: "Umm, I think I know "

[kymaera]

You say Genga. I say Douga. You say toe-may-toe. I say toe-mah-toe.
Let's call the whole thing off.