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Pixar in a Box

A collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy. Sponsored by Disney. Questions/Feedback: piab@khanacademy.org.

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Introduction

This introductory video will give you an overview of Pixar’s filmmaking pipeline and prepare you to dive deeper into the STEAM topics that follow in the Pixar in a Box curriculum.

Introduction

This introductory video will give you an overview of Pixar’s filmmaking pipeline and prepare you to dive deeper into the STEAM topics that follow in the Pixar in a Box curriculum.

Unit 1: Start here!

Unit 2: Animation

Introduction to animationMathematics of animation curves

Unit 3: Character modeling

Modeling with subdivision surfacesMathematics of subdivision

Unit 4: Environment modeling

Modeling grass with parabolasCalculating parabolas

Unit 5: Crowds

Building crowdsCounting crowds

Unit 6: Rendering

Rendering 101Mathematics of Rendering

Unit 7: What's next?

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