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?



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    26 Comments
    Comment by Balto
    17:40 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    19:57 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    00:19 22/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Johnson
    18:49 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    17:00 22/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    19:18 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by SnooSnoo
    19:35 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hardcore....

    Comment by Bobdanob
    20:13 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    ...Close to overkill.

    Comment by Trezaquets
    20:17 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    that guy really have all the time in the world...

    Comment by berls155
    04:20 04/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    that was exactly what i was thinking

    Comment by hika
    20:30 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    i think my program will hang if i do that

    Comment by Leebo
    21:28 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    21:35 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Persocom-san
    23:00 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    I call hax.

    Comment by Yukarin
    23:00 21/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    02:18 22/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    *Insert inevitable Excel Saga joke here*

    Comment by alex1_phang3
    06:52 22/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

    OMG this guy has one powerful comp there . . .

    Comment by coral422
    10:22 22/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by metatron
    15:05 23/11/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by onitake
    05:57 10/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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
    20:10 12/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by heavyoak
    20:10 12/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    *hang

    Comment by Junkujanai
    06:32 04/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Sauce, Please?

    Comment by Junkujanai
    06:33 04/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I can't find the cvs or whatever anywhere.

    Comment by shalala
    05:57 23/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    that wassss sooooooooooo coool

    Comment by Schrobby
    08:45 24/08/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    With that much free time I'd rather watch some anime... ^_^

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