Patent Document ID: 9003287
Application ID: 13299518

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for interaction between a 3D animation and a corresponding script, the method comprising: displaying a user interface that includes at least a 3D animation area and a script area, the 3D animation area including (i) a 3D view area for creating and playing a 3D animation and (ii) a timeline area for visualizing actions by one or more 3D animation characters, the script area comprising one or more objects representing lines from a script having one or more script characters; receiving a first user input corresponding to a user selecting at least one of the objects from the script area for assignment to a location in the timeline area and placing the selected object in the 3D viewing area: identifying the location in the timeline area as corresponding to a current state of the 3D view area and placing the selected object at the location in the timeline area based on the identification; generating a timeline object at the location in response to the first user input, the timeline object corresponding to the selected object; and associating audio data with the generated timeline object, the audio data corresponding to a line represented by the selected object.

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Claim 5:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the timeline object shows (i) dialogue text corresponding to the line represented by the selected object, and (ii) an audio waveform corresponding to the audio data.