A preliminary study on collaborative methods in animation design

Animation design is a complicated group project which usually has a long lifecycle, involves huge participants and has diversified media data. In this paper, the idea of collaborative design is brought into the process of animation design, for finding the difficulties and low efficient sectors caused by the lack of collaboration during the whole design process, with the purpose of questing for appropriate solutions to collaboration. Related technologies of collaborative application to four aspects, including pre-creation, task allocation, data management and collaborative perception, are discussed, in order to improve efficiency, and enhance communications and data sharing to some extent. Finally, two instances about collaborative innovation of character relationship in scripts and animation scene design with collaborative template are given, so the perspective that animation design will be a new domain for researches and applications of collaboration is indicated.