Realtime Character Design System

Draw anime & VTuber characters with a studio that streams every stroke.

NOVA//INK is a browser-native drawing studio for professional 2D character design. Humans and drawing agents share one deterministic operation format, so every session is live, replayable, and never lost.

  • Persistent sessions
  • 60 FPS canvas
  • Stylus & touch
  • Layered export

Realtime drawing

Each stroke is an operation broadcast over WebSocket. Open a session and watch lineart appear point by point.

Character workflow

Ten workflows from Original Character to Live2D Preparation, with a sixteen-stage pipeline and tracked progress.

Live agent sessions

A drawing agent uses the same tools as you through a documented internal API. No prompts, no generators — real strokes.

Studio-grade toolset

Brush engine

Pencil, ink, soft & hard round, airbrush, marker, eraser with pressure, flow, hardness and stabilizer.

Layers

Groups, blend modes, clipping, alpha lock, and a VTuber-ready fifteen-layer template.

Color system

Wheel, HSV/HSL/RGB/HEX, harmony suggestions, and character palettes you fully control.

Persistence

Incremental autosave, checkpoints, version history and crash recovery. Refresh keeps your progress.

Replay

Every operation is logged. Replays reproduce the exact final canvas at any speed.

Export

PNG, transparent PNG, JPEG, WebP, project JSON, layered ZIP and Live2D-prep layers.

Watch the process unfold

  1. 01Brief
  2. 02Reference
  3. 03Gesture
  4. 04Construction
  5. 05Sketch
  6. 06Clean sketch
  7. 07Lineart
  8. 08Base color

Design your next character in the open.

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