Animation design is a complicated group project
which usually has a long lifecycle, involves huge participants and
has diversified media data. In this paper, the idea of
collaborative design is brought into the process of animation
design, for finding the difficulties and low efficient sectors caused
by the lack of collaboration during the whole design process,
with the purpose of questing for appropriate solutions to
collaboration. Related technologies of collaborative application
to four aspects, including pre-creation, task allocation, data
management and collaborative perception, are discussed, in
order to improve efficiency, and enhance communications and
data sharing to some extent. Finally, two instances about
collaborative innovation of character relationship in scripts and
animation scene design with collaborative template are given, so
the perspective that animation design will be a new domain for
researches and applications of collaboration is indicated.