I would like to know how people usually save the animations in order to load them easily in Cocos2d with as few hard-code as possible.

E.G. The solution I thought of is to have one plist file containing information about each frame, and the second plist to contain information about each of the animation(name of the animation, which frames to play, and the delay probably).

If this is the correct solution, how can I generate such plist files for spritesheet automatically?