Sakuga
Real-time cel shading, a live 24fps frame-hold comparator, and a real genga-to-douga inbetween interpolator — the actual craft of 2D animation, not a fan-site skin. The hero is a real-time cel-shaded 3D scene with a quantized diffuse ramp, fresnel rim light, and inverted-hull outline; the frame-hold comparator runs a genuine 24fps clock sampling a new pose every one, two, or three ticks; and the inbetween tool linearly interpolates every joint between two real key poses. A seven-stage production-pipeline reference and eight demo productions span four real broadcast formats and eight genres.
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Overview
Sakuga is for a small 2D animation studio — the kind of site a prospective client or recruit checks to see what the studio has made and how it actually works.
Three things in it are real rather than decorative:
1. A real-time cel-shaded 3D hero. A quantized diffuse ramp, a fresnel rim light and an inverted-hull outline — the same real-time toon-shading recipe used across the anime-style game industry — implemented in raw GLSL. Fully present as a single static render under prefers-reduced-motion, not skipped.
2. A genuine frame-hold comparator. Animation on ones, twos and threes is run against a real 24fps clock: the canvas only samples a new pose every 1, 2 or 3 ticks and holds it, exactly as a digital ink-and-paint pipeline does.
3. A real genga-to-douga inbetween interpolator. Two key poses are defined as joint coordinates; the slider linearly interpolates every joint between them — the same arithmetic an inbetween animator’s tie-down does by hand.
Eight demo productions span four real broadcast formats (TV series, movie, OVA, short) and eight genres, each with real per-episode genga/douga drawing-count estimates. Self-hosted Shippori Mincho, Zen Kaku Gothic New and Fragment Mono.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
|---|---|
| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
