Toradora OP Recreated Using Excel

An over-eager user of NicoNico Douga has stunned Toradora fans (let us not say in what way) with a rendition of the Toradora OP made using only the spreadsheet functionality of Microsoft Excel.

Player 1


Nico.

It looks as if the method used was to reconstruct each frame of animation as a separate page, and then have them rapidly scrolled, animating the scene. A program was used to assign the appropriate RGB values to each table cell, performing an analysis of the original video to generate these.

The wisely sceptical amongst you will likely have your doubts assuaged when you hear that the author apparently distributed the cvs files in question earlier, which weighed in at nearly 50mb.

Certainly one of the more invooled Toradora fan releases. However, the OP may be good, but is it that good?



    25 Comments
    Comment by Balto
    21-11-2008 17:40 # Report

    One must wonder how long the user has worked on this for i don’t see myself bringing up the patience to do this

    Comment by mizuha
    21-11-2008 19:57 # Report

    He probably used a script. There’s another video where the code was actually shown. Watch that one here:

    http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1642964

    But how he times the frames to the sound boggles me.

    Comment by Zearth
    22-11-2008 00:19 # Report

    Propably haven’t matched until some respeeding in video-editing program.
    Or maybe matched, with scripted autoscrolling by time.

     
     
     
    Comment by Johnson
    21-11-2008 18:49 # Report

    I was intrigued by the Palm Top Taiga figure at first, but the series turned out rather disappointing. The OP is fitting in that regard.

    Comment by S_K
    22-11-2008 17:00 # Report

    Really? I’ve found the series surprisingly enjoyable. Not all the characters, but the leads at least have a little bit of depth. And it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

     
     
    Comment by maru
    21-11-2008 19:18 # Report

    Lol. Kinda meaningless but well done. Had no other way to show his fandom? ^^

     
    Comment by SnooSnoo
    21-11-2008 19:35 # Report

    Hardcore….

    Comment by Bobdanob
    21-11-2008 20:13 # Report

    …Close to overkill.

     
     
    Comment by Trezaquets
    21-11-2008 20:17 # Report

    that guy really have all the time in the world…

    Comment by berls155
    04-12-2008 04:20 # Report

    that was exactly what i was thinking

     
     
    Comment by hika
    21-11-2008 20:30 # Report

    i think my program will hang if i do that

     
    Comment by Leebo
    21-11-2008 21:28 # Report

    Once he had a script to convert the frames to cells, it was probably easy to write a macro to scroll at the proper speed. It probably didn’t take as long as people are assuming.

     
    Comment by Toonleap
    21-11-2008 21:35 # Report

    That person could have removed the credits of the video editing the cells…much fun to see a creditless opening

     
    Comment by Persocom-san
    21-11-2008 23:00 # Report

    I call hax.

     
    Comment by Yukarin
    21-11-2008 23:00 # Report

    If he took the cell colour by ripping it from the video with a program then he can’t have made it creditless, and editing the credits out would take forever… I think? maybe i’m wrong lol.

    I saw the same thing done for Higurashi Kai before, which seemed better done. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1642964 <–

     
    Comment by muteKi
    22-11-2008 02:18 # Report

    *Insert inevitable Excel Saga joke here*

     
    Comment by alex1_phang3
    22-11-2008 06:52 # Report

    OMG this guy has one powerful comp there . . .

     
    Comment by coral422
    22-11-2008 10:22 # Report

    I thought one worksheet can only handle 65000+ rows? Amazing…

     
    Comment by metatron
    23-11-2008 15:05 # Report

    it’s mind boggling on how the user recreated it frame by frame

     
    Comment by onitake
    10-02-2009 05:57 # Report

    i prefer
    # mplayer -vo caca ToradoraOP.mkv

    it looks better, is way faster and doesn’t require a spreadsheet application. plus, you don’t have to sync the sound afterwards. :)

     
    Comment by heavyoak
    12-02-2009 20:10 # Report

    omg. even my super computer(Xp pro 64bit sp3 intel xeon 64Gb ram) would hand if I tried that.

    Comment by heavyoak
    12-02-2009 20:10 # Report

    *hang

     
     
    Comment by Junkujanai
    04-03-2009 06:32 # Report

    Sauce, Please?

    Comment by Junkujanai
    04-03-2009 06:33 # Report

    I can’t find the cvs or whatever anywhere.

     
     
    Comment by shalala
    23-03-2009 05:57 # Report

    that wassss sooooooooooo coool

     



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