Pixar In a Box -- free animation course

Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy paired together to create a program to teach students the basics of animation: Pixar in a Box.

According to Khan Academy, "The course covers different animation-related topics each of which comes with ‘a design focused lesson appropriate for grades 5+, followed by a math focused lesson which is grade specific.’ The topics included are :

• 'Environment Modeling: Explore how realistic blades of grass are modeled using parabolic arcs.
• Character Modeling: Explore how clay models are transformed into digital characters using weighted averages.
• Crowds: Explore how swarms of robots were created for WALL-E using combinatorics.
• Animation: Explore how animators bring characters to life with the help of Animation curves.
• Sets and Staging: Explore how virtual sets are constructed using geometric transformations.
• Rendering: Explore how pixels are painted by solving systems of linear equations."