ArtDeck
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Animation and motion reference

Read animation reference one frame at a time.

Slow the video or GIF down. You can also step through it one frame at a time.
The video stays on your board, next to drawings or notes you make.

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Onion skinning shows frames before and after as colored ghosts.
GIFs also get a filmstrip: tap a cell to select it, or drag it onto the board.

ArtDeck motion study showing an animated GIF frame, visual filmstrip, frame controls, and onion-skin overlays
A GIF filmstrip and onion skinning applied to an animated reference in ArtDeck.

Motion tools

Playback and frame controls for video and GIFs.

At full speed, a contact or some change in spacing is too fast to study.
Slow the video down or move one frame at a time.

Follow a frame-by-frame reference study

One frame at a time

Step one frame back or forward. You can also change the playback speed. With a keyboard, hold an arrow key to keep stepping. Hold Shift to jump a fixed number of frames for bigger timelines.

Browse a GIF filmstrip

The filmstrip shows every frame of a GIF as cells. Tap one to jump there, or drag one onto the board to keep the frame as an image.

Compare nearby frames

You can select the offset and how many ghosts to show before and after. Line Art keeps clean strokes for drawn animation, and Lightbox helps dim the current frame to better see the other ones.