Analysis and Visualization of Tool Usage in Animated Film Production

Walt Disney Animation Studios Computer Science/Mathematics, 2013-14

Liaison(s): Lawrence Chai ’88/89, Kevin Gambrel, Evan Goldberg, Cathy Lam
Advisor(s): Talithia Williams
Students(s): Travis Athougies, Ben Corr (PM), Michael Fox, David Scott

The technology department at Walt Disney Animation Studios logs large amounts of data tracking the actions of their tools and tasks of their users. They would like to mine this data for time-based patterns or correlations. To assist in extracting useful information from the data, we have created scripts that graph and visualize the data, and we have used these to investigate meaningful relation- ships between users and tool usage.