Pixar lessons at Khan Academy

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https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar

Overview of Pixar in a Box for students & teachers.

Introduction
Environment modeling
Explore how blades of grass in Brave were created using parabolic arcs.

Modeling grass with parabolas
Calculating parabolas

Character modeling
Explore how clay models are transformed into digital characters using weighted averages.

Modeling with subdivision surfaces
Mathematics of subdivision

Animation
Explore how animators bring characters to life using different kinds of animation curves.

Introduction to animation curves
Mathematics of animation curves

Crowds
Explore how swarms of robots in Wall-E were made using combinatorics.
Building crowds
Counting crowds

Sets & Staging
Explore how virtual sets are constructed using geometric transformations.

Geometric transformations
Mathematics of rotation

Rendering
Explore how pixels are painted digitally using algebra.

Rendering 101
Mathematics of Rendering

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Saw this floating around on facebook, kind of went viral.