An early mockup. T he dark blue rectangles represent key frames. The light blue range indicate how long a pose is held.
The scrollbar in the previous example felt clunky, so I replaced it with a condensed view of the entire animation. The black frame represents the frames that are currently visible in the dope sheet. There is also an annotatable dialogue waveform at
This version adds a collapsible hierarchy and user defined colors. Solid rectangles represent frames that are keyed for all controls and circles represent frames that are partially keyed. The vertical hashes represent blends.
This view replaces the spreadsheet with a full collapsible hierarchical dope sheet. You lose the ability to edit key frame values, but have a much better view of the timing information.
This shows the dope sheet alongside the curve editor, another UI for editing key frame information.
This is a version of the dope sheet optimized for editing parenting data. Since the majority of parenting key frames are either on (value = 1) or off (value = 0), we can simplify the display by not showing keys of value zero. Occasionally, there is
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