Systems and Methods for Displaying Animations on a Mobile Device

A method for creating a two-dimensional animation sequence for display on a mobile device comprising:

• creating the animation sequence comprising a scene graph of a plurality of nodes that are stored in memory, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is either an image node, an embedded node, or a collection node;
• extracting hierarchy data, collection data, and animation data from the scene graph,
• wherein the hierarchy data comprises information that represents the structure of the scene graph,
• wherein the collection data comprises information that represents multiple interchangeable animation sets, and
• wherein the animation data comprises information that represents individual frames of the animation sequence;
• and
• saving the hierarchy data, the collection data, and the animation data to an animation data file.

A method for creating a two-dimensional animation sequence for display on a mobile device comprising:

• creating a sequence of images comprising a plurality of first images and plurality of second images that are transformations of the first images;
• calculating a plurality of transformation matrices between the plurality of first images and the plurality of second images;
• exporting the transformation matrices and references to the plurality of first images to an animation data file that is stored in memory;
• and
• creating a sprite sheet comprising the plurality of first images,
• wherein the sprite sheet excludes duplicate first images.