Draw Suite

The world-beating web-based GPU-accelerated drawing engine - with a custom brush builder.

Start with stick figures or paint a full finished artwork. 450+ brushes, 120+ paper textures, non-destructive layers, 15+ blend modes, full stylus pressure + tilt - running at 60fps in your browser.

No plugins. No install. No download. Open a tab and paint.

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The canvas

A full painting engine - right in your browser.

450+ brushes, 120+ paper textures, non-destructive layers and full stylus pressure + tilt, all rendering at 60fps. No download, no plugin - open a tab and paint.

Open the Draw engine →
Draw app - GPU-accelerated storyboard sketching with professional brushes, layers and pressure-sensitive markup.
Concept art

Or let DollyAI™ block it in - then paint over the top.

Generate style-locked concept frames in seconds, drop them onto a Draw layer, and refine by hand. The AI does the heavy lifting; you keep the authorship.

See the AI Artist →
AI Artist concept-art mode - environment and character concept paintings rendered across the LINE, TONE and COLOUR style bibles.
Straight to the board

Every drawing lands on the storyboard, linked to its scene.

Send a finished panel straight to the storyboard editor - annotated, versioned and tied to the shot it illustrates. No exporting, re-naming or re-importing.

See the storyboard editor →
Storyboard editor - a sequence with shot-type and camera-movement annotations on a clean canvas.
450+
Stock brushes
120+
Paper textures
15+
Blend modes
60fps
GPU rendering

Under the Hood

Built for artists who demand performance

World-Beating GPU-Accelerated Rendering

Our custom, proprietary GPU-accelerated drawing engine renders at 60fps in your browser - no plugins, no installs. Four-phase performance pipeline purpose-built for cinematic storyboarding.

  • GPU compositor for layer blending at native framerate
  • Web Worker off-thread brush computation - zero jank
  • Dirty-region rendering - only re-composite what changed
  • OffscreenCanvas worker - zero main-thread dab pixel cost
  • Dynamic overscan with auto-resize for large brush radii
  • Snapshot cache for instant compositor recovery
// 4-phase rendering pipeline
Phase 1: WebGL2 GPU Compositor ✓
Phase 2: Web Worker Threading ✓
Phase 3: Dirty Region Rendering ✓
Phase 4: OffscreenCanvas Worker ✓

// Zero main-thread dab cost

Custom Brush Builder + Tip & Texture Studios

Our in-house brush builder gives you full control: pressure, flow, scattering, jitter, tilt, texture, dual-brush blending - the works. Build a brush from nothing: paint your own tip stamp pixel by pixel, draw or import your own paper grain, and trade the finished brush with your team. Ships with a library of 450+ ready-to-paint brushes.

  • 450+ stock brushes across ink, pencil, oils, watercolour, charcoal, airbrush, gouache, chalk, markers, and bristle sets
  • Custom brush builder - tweak every dynamic: size, hardness, spacing, scattering, jitter, angle, flow, pressure gamma
  • Custom Tip Painter - draw your own brush-tip stamp by hand (or import an image), then paint with it instantly
  • Custom Texture Creator - paint or import paper grain and save it to your own texture library
  • .sbcd brush export - package a whole brush (tip + texture + every setting) and share it with the team in one file
  • Dual-brush blending for complex, textured marks
  • Import any .abr brush file - your favourite packs come with you
  • MyPaint engine: full .myb preset support for natural-media feel
// SimpleBrushEngine defaults
{
size: 20,
hardness: 0.8,
spacing: 0.15,
pressureGamma: 0.7,
minSizeFraction: 0.05
}
// + MyPaint .myb presets

120+ Paper Textures + Canvas Presets

Real paper feels real. Choose from over 120 canvas and paper textures - cold-press cotton, hot-press smooth, rough watercolour, vellum, bristol, kraft, linen, newsprint, and more. Set once and paint naturally.

  • 120+ high-resolution paper and canvas textures
  • Cold-press, hot-press, rough, smooth - every surface a working illustrator asks for
  • Texture depth, scale, contrast, and invert controls
  • Per-layer texture overrides - not just document-wide
  • Custom texture import for bespoke surfaces
  • Cinematic storyboard paper presets (16:9, 2.39:1, 4:3, square)
// Smoothing modes
none → Raw pass-through
basic → Exponential MA
weighted → Ring buffer WMA
stabilizer → Lazy brush
pixel_perfect → Collinear elim

// Full pressure + tilt

Full Stylus Pressure + Tilt

Every tablet, every stylus. Pressure sensitivity, X/Y tilt, and barrel rotation with five smoothing modes for pixel-accurate tracking on any device.

  • Full pressure sensing with normalisation (0.0–1.0)
  • X/Y tilt angle detection and pen barrel rotation
  • 5 smoothing modes: None, EMA, Weighted, Stabilizer, Pixel Perfect
  • Stabilizer mode: lazy brush with 3-sample ramp-up
  • Spatial calibration overlay for pointer verification
  • Pressure stress test with real-time histogram and response curve
// Blend modes (GPU-accelerated)
Normal · Multiply · Screen
Overlay · Soft Light · Hard Light
Darken · Lighten
Color Dodge · Color Burn
Difference · Exclusion
Hue · Saturation · Color
Luminosity

Non-Destructive Layers + 15+ Blend Modes

Professional layer stack with 15+ blend modes, adjustment layers, groups, masks, per-layer opacity, and drag-to-reorder. GPU-accelerated compositing keeps complex documents fast.

  • 15+ blend modes: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Darken, Lighten, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity
  • Adjustment layers: Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Levels, Curves
  • Layer groups, clipping masks, alpha locks, and merge controls
  • Per-stroke accumulation buffer for opacity capping
  • Drag-to-reorder with bulk visibility toggles
  • GPU-accelerated compositing - 100+ layer documents stay smooth
// Tool shortcuts
B → Brush E → Eraser
S → Smudge L → Lasso
R → Rect T → Text
W → Wet C → Color

Ctrl+Z → Undo
Ctrl+S → Save

Complete Tool Palette + Radial Menu

Every tool a working storyboard artist needs - brushes, erasers, smudge, selection, text, shapes, gradient, eyedropper - all one keystroke away.

  • Brush tool with variable size, hardness, opacity, and flow
  • Eraser, smudge, clone, blur, sharpen, dodge, burn
  • Selection: rectangular, elliptical, freehand lasso, magic wand
  • Color panel with RGB/HSL/HEX picker and swatch history
  • Channels panel for individual RGBA editing
  • Radial menu for one-flick tool switching + full keyboard shortcuts
// ErrorShooter (singleton)
Buffer: 200 entries (circular)
Dedup: 2s window
Toast: max 3 stack
Error → 8s (red)
Warn → 5s (amber)
Info → 4s (blue)
// WebGL restore propagation

Cinematic Export + ABR / .sbcd Brush Trading

Ship production-ready frames. Export to PNG, JPEG, PSD, and project JSON. Import .abr brush files, trade complete brushes in our own .sbcd format, and pull reference straight from your project cloud.

  • Export PNG, JPEG, PSD (layered), and project JSON
  • Multi-frame storyboard export - whole sequences in one click
  • Adobe ABR brush file import (versions 1, 2, 6–10)
  • .sbcd brush format - export and import whole brushes (tip + texture + settings) to share across the team
  • Insert reference from your project cloud - frames, characters, locations, props, every shared asset - or a local file
  • Lossless project save/restore with full history + cloud sync - pick up on any device mid-stroke
  • Direct hand-off to Animate, AI Artist, and the storyboard editor with scene linkage

Architecture

Pen tip to pixel - the full pipeline

Pointer Event → BrushInputPipeline (smoothing)
  → BrushWorkerBridge → Web Worker
    → SimpleBrushEngine (Hermite curves, dabs)
    → WorkerDabRenderer (OffscreenCanvas)
    → ImageBitmap transfer (zero-copy)
  → Main thread: drawImage → layer canvas
  → Compositor → On-screen WebGL surface

Fallback path (eraser, tips, bristles, wet):
  Worker → raw SkiaDabParams → Main DabRenderer → canvas

Browser drawing engine — common questions

The Draw Suite is a GPU-accelerated drawing and painting engine that runs entirely in your browser at 60fps — no plugins, no install, no download. It ships with 450+ brushes, 120+ paper textures, non-destructive layers, 15+ blend modes and full stylus pressure and tilt.

No. The engine runs in a browser tab with no plugins, installs or downloads. Open a tab and paint — GPU-accelerated performance with the accessibility of the web.

Yes. The custom brush builder lets you control every dynamic — size, hardness, spacing, scattering, jitter, angle, flow and pressure gamma — paint your own tip stamp by hand, and create or import paper textures. You can import Adobe .abr brush files and MyPaint .myb presets, and package a whole brush as a shareable .sbcd file for your team.

Yes. The engine reads full pressure sensing, X/Y tilt and pen barrel rotation on any tablet or stylus, with five smoothing modes — None, EMA, Weighted, Stabilizer and Pixel Perfect — for pixel-accurate tracking.

You get a professional non-destructive layer stack with 15+ blend modes, adjustment layers, groups, clipping masks, alpha locks and per-layer opacity. GPU-accelerated compositing keeps documents with 100+ layers fast.

You can export to PNG, JPEG, layered PSD and project JSON, and export whole storyboard sequences in one click. Projects save and restore losslessly with full history and cloud sync, so you can pick up on any device mid-stroke.

Yes. A finished panel hands off directly to the Animate app, the AI Artist and the storyboard editor with scene linkage, and you can pull reference straight from your project cloud — frames, characters, locations, props and every shared asset — without exporting or re-importing.

See it for yourself

Step inside a real production, completely free.

Open the actual software on Origin: Ascension, a finished short film, and explore every app exactly as the crew left it. Read the script, walk the boards, open the budget, print the call sheet. Fully read-only, with no sign-up. Nothing you touch is saved.

Try the free demo20 apps · one project file · 0 seconds of setup
No sign-upNo cardNo downloadFully read-onlyNothing you touch is saved
Live demo · Origin: Ascension
The AI Artist app in the free demo, generating an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame in the project's locked house style.
The Draw studio in the free demo, painting over an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame on the GPU canvas.
The Animate app in the free demo, playing back the timed Origin: Ascension animatic.
The Call Sheet app in the free demo, showing a finished Origin: Ascension shoot-day call sheet.

Script · breakdown · boards · animatic · call sheets · budget

The demo is a view-only copy shared for exploration. Some features need a paid subscription to run.

Professional drawing tools, zero install.

Open your browser. Start painting. GPU-accelerated performance meets web accessibility.

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Twenty synchronised apps, one project file. Every app on every plan - pick a tier by team size, not features.

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