Pixar wants to teach you how to make movies! Created with middle and high school students in mind but available to everyone, Pixar in a Box is a free software package, created in collaboration with Kann Academy, that is designed to teach the fusion of art, technology, science, engineering, and math that Pixar uses to develop wonderful animated movies. Try it now on-line!
Pixar in a box follows the release of a free version of renderman for non-commercial use.
The curriculum will walk users through the math used to create the different technical stages of a movie using Pixar characters. Six different sections cover Environmental Modeling, Character Modeling, Animation, Crowds, Sets and Staging, and Rendering and includes:
- How combinatorics are used to create crowds and swarms of robots
- How parabolas are used to model environments
- How weighted averages are used to create characters
- How linear and cubic interpolation are used to animate characters.
- How trigonometry is used to create the worlds in which Pixar stories take place.
- How simultaneous equations are used to paint all of Pixar’s images.
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