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Pixar in a Box: Collaboration Between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy
- lock-the-spock 4y agoWould be great to have a recommended age range. I can't figure out from any of the text if this is more for me or my kids :-)
- the_other 4y agoI watched the welcome vid to try working out if it's suitable for my pre-teen. The welcome vid is! Based on this, I suspect some of the content will go over their head, but I'm going to try them with it and see where we get. If it turns into a family project with me learning + teaching alongside my kid (or doing the bits they can't manage yet), that'd actually be a bonus.
- elliekelly 4y agoI've done this course and I'd say it's a high school level course. Maybe a superstar 7th or 8th grader could do this on their own but I think that would be a stretch because there's some "advanced" math involved in the exercises. It's explained pretty well but it definitely assumes you have a basic understanding of geometry.
- irrational 4y agoHuh, I haven’t looked at khan academy in years. They have a giant funding request box up now. I thought Bill Gates used to help fund khan academy. Am I remembering wrong, or did that end?
- maroonblazer 4y agoKhan Academy is a non-profit. Like any non-profit, they're always fundraising.
- lupire 4y agoYou mean, like any organization, they are always fundraising?
- philliphaydon 4y agoI just downloaded Khan academy kids on my iPad for my daughter to try out. Since it’s apparently completely free.
- solarmist 4y agoAre you unfamiliar with Khan academy? I thought it was pretty famous. Free, high-quality lessons/education is pretty much their mission statement.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoWell-kept non-secret. Got me through many classes at various levels — tell your kids about Khan Academy!
- philliphaydon 4y agoHaha I heard about Khan Academy but not the kids version. Daughter is obsessed with it at the moment. She keeps asking for iPad and I only let her play for 1 hour a day.
- kreeWall 4y agoI work with 4th-9th grade girls teaching them code, and recommend this to them to work on over the summer! It's a great curriculum and does an awesome job pulling children in!
- digisign 4y agoDoes it require proprietary tools? Would like to use Linux and possibly Blender, but classes at school often use whatever big-tech tools they cut a backroom deal for.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoEven if you aren't taking these classes, you can sign up for a free non-commercial license for Render Man. It comes with the full feature-set of the commercial version and there aren't any academic attendance requirements. While Renderman can also be installed on Linux, I can't personally vouch for feature parity with the Windows version as I haven't made the comparison myself. Nuke also has a hobbyist license. No watermarking or end date, but there are limitations on output. https://renderman.pixar.com/install https://renderman.pixar.com/install https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/non-commercial https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/non-commercial