dodl.es makes it simple to animate on mobile devices through collaboration with artists and other creators, leading to incredible new opportunities for creative expression!

Users can rapidly create animated scenes using their own content or by mixing, matching and tweaking animated characters, assets and content created by others.

Over the past decade, social media has evolved from text-based posts, emojis, and photos to more visually engaging memes, video with overlays and digital drawings to provide users with the ability to express themselves more creatively than ever before. dodl.es will fuel the next big leap in self-expression, removing the barriers for digital drawing, animation, and collaboration over social media.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, there is increasing demand for visual communication in order to stand out. Animation is at the forefront of effective communication and expression but has historically been a time-consuming, technical process. dodl.es has simplified this process for mobile in order to help users create impressive animations faster than ever.

By leveraging the creative content of others through dodl.es' open marketplace, users can produce animated stories (or “dodles”) without requiring drawing or animation skills.  The user simply searches for pre-animated characters, objects, and scenes they want to add to their dodle, and selects licensed assets to tweak, if necessary.  Users can then quickly develop an animated dodle, visually directing these assets by selecting actions and recording audio for characters to lip sync.

dodl.es is positioning itself as an advocate for creators by offering new revenue streams for self-publishing animated stories and to license assets such as scenes, objects, characters, sound effects, music, and voice acting, while also protecting intellectual property.

The groundbreaking animation techniques within dodl.es  revolutionize the process of creating animated messages, memes, interactive comics, stories, games and more. The capabilities of the app appeal to everyone from the casual hobbyist looking to create the next viral meme to the serious professional seeking to produce interactive advertising more efficiently.

We put dodl.es to the test and let you be the judge:

Craig Doriot has worked hard to overcome personal challenges of being on the autism spectrum and believes dodl.es will be a tool that helps others on the spectrum build effective outlets for their incredible gifts. It will help them forge careers without being hindered by the social stresses that leads to underemployment.

Recent Interviews about the benefits of dodles for those on the Autism Spectrum 

WBAY (TV Feature Report)

Tech.co (Article)

All Autism Talk (Podcast Show Interview)

The Autism Show (Podcast Show Interview)

Press

Recent press:

Tech Crunch (Article)

Techli (Article)

Spaceboy Universe (Live Interview)

Game skinny (Article)

Benzinga (Article)

First Comics News (Article)

The Pullbox (Article)

Comicsverse (Show Highlights)

Engaging at the Comic Cons

Check out how busy our dodles booth is at the Salt Lake City Comic Con. From our info table around to our dodleing contest drawing tables we consistently sustain a packed out booth.

dodl.es is engaging creators, artists, and fans through participation at popular comic cons including the recent & upcoming exhibits at Wondercon (April 2017, Anaheim, CA), C2E2 (April 2017, Chicago, IL), Wizard World Minneapolis (May 2017), and Comicpalooza (May 2017) Salt Lake City Comic Con  (September 2017, SLC, Utah), LA Comic Con / Comikaze (Los Angeles, Oct 2017), CTNX (November 2017, Anaheim, CA), Emerald City Comic Con (March 2018, Seattle, WA)

We've been experiencing great enthusiasm at the shows from media personalities and people checking out the app:

Thorngard Art 

Joel VLogs (1:45 marker)

https://www.facebook.com/dodles/videos/vb.562729740535601/896131517195420/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/dodles/videos/vb.56272...

https://www.facebook.com/dodles/videos/pcb.8982... 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/335179706829203/permalink/518944895119349/

https://www.facebook.com/dodles/videos/986558894819348/

History & Risks

The physical rewards are being procured already, as we are filling the orders from a separate campaign. Our mobile app is over 95% ready for beta launch and we will begin beta by early November 2017.

Craig Doriot has a strong history of building successful tech startups from initial idea to sale (co-founder of Yupi who sold to Microsoft and Loansifter who sold to Optimal Blue).

Craig Doriot invested the initial $2 million to develop dodles over the past couple of years, and we've recently taken on a round of funding through 10 investors with $300K for our first external round and are in discussions for the second round of funding.

Other Ways You Can Help

• Please share to your friends and social networks to get the word out and make some noise!
• You can use the Indiegogo share tools!

Meet Our Team