Producing Multi-Author Animation and Multimedia Using Metadata

摘要

The present invention relates to the creation of digital multimedia, in particular the creation of digital animation and or audio tracks by multiple participants. Specifically, the invention relates to a novel method to facilitate, through automation, custom tools and custom methods, the creation and maintenance of a collaboration of two or more individuals who generate incremental media elements, and a resultant accretive animation and or audio thereof. The invention in some embodiments creates a set of collaborative tools that allow multiple users to contribute incremental media elements such as but not limited to still images, audio clips, editing effects such as filters, metadata, captions and comments to a shared project pool; that provide automatic or semi-automatic rendering to transform the incremental elements into an aggregate or accretive media product such as an animation and/or audio track and returns the resultant animation and or audio in various configurations based on variables such as time stamps, source and user-generated tags to participants and/or designated repositories, including but not limited to a website centered around the collaborative media produced by the tools and various social networking sites and tools.

主权项

1. A method for producing multi-author animation using metadata comprising:
a. providing a network; b. providing at least one processor on the network; c. providing a plurality of digital media devices capable of connecting to said network; d. providing a camera on each of the plurality of media devices; e. providing a user interface on each of the plurality of media devices that enables a human author to operate said camera to record digital photographs; f. moving said digital photographs and from said two or more media devices to mutually accessible memory; g. rendering the frames as an accretive digital animation according to the order of basic metadata such as simple file names, chronological file storage information or a random list of files; h. exporting the rendered digital animation file, whereby the plurality of digital photographs recording the various perspectives of multiple authors has been co-mingled and transformed into a collaborative digital animation file;