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Well, what we call a "key drawing" is a douga. They are
the main drawings of a scene : the begining of an action,
the end of an action a some of the in-between steps. Those
drawings are done by "key animators" and used to paint cels.
All the other drawing of the scene are regular douga and
done by less experienced animator.

Now, a genga is not a drawing used to make a cel. It's
a drawing done by the character designer to show animators
and key animators how they should draw the douga for a
scene.

That's the theory and it's fairly easy :) In practice
it's much harder to make the differance : A genga may
look like a douga (there is nothing that say that a
character designer has to draw in a differant style :)
and there is many other drawings that doesn't look
like a douga but aren't genga either : they are not
done by the character designer and aren't used for
drawing cels. They are "rough" sketch (or whatever you
want to call them) used to "define" a scene or show
how it will look like in the end. Those are extra steps
in the production process.

Cheers,
Yann Stettler