Research on Animation Spreadsheet on Production of Computer Animation

Abstract

We propose a production method to generate and control computer graphics animation using a giant virtual spreadsheet called Animation Spreadsheet (AS). AS contains thousands of images as miniature image data which can be designed, generated, edited and saved. AS has two axes. One is based on time and the other is on layers of image components which will make up a cell of a completed image. Users are able to manipulate images by previewing with the time axis or the layer axis. AS can be used not only for computer generated animation production, but also as a designing and editing tool for other types of video image production. We examined AS in a short animation production to compare it with an existing normal production method.