[dmix]

I've noticed a bunch of Youtube channels have really upped their animation game and mastered how to structure/pace their videos. Especially the science oriented ones like Kurzgesagt [1] and Veritasium [2]. It's a really great movement, I'm happy to see it. 3blue1brown definitely played a role in this in the early days.

It reminds me of the way websites evolved around 2005-2010 to start to take design seriously, not just on specialist web design sites but on major news sites and search engines, etc. Part of it was "Web 2.0" and then Bootstrap style CSS frameworks and the maturity of browsers as IE6 died off.

1. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

[jameshart]

Grant from 3b1b is actually explicitly encouraging people to try to make more mathematical education videos this summer [1] - and Freya Holmér cites that as being what encouraged her to expand from little gif explanations into a full-length exposition video for that piece on Bézier curves, so this is all connected!

And in the spirit of sharing a bit of the ‘how it’s done’ - obviously while Grant uses Manim, Freya uses Unity3D and her ‘Shapes’ library [2] to produce her visualizations - she also streams a lot of her dev work so if you want to follow along with how it’s done, that’s another avenue to look at.

1: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1

2: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effect...

[fumblebee]

I learned more from educational YouTube videos than I did during my (very expensive) lectures at university.

I expect with the quality of videos that are now being churned out, that the "education gain coefficient" between old style lectures and brilliantly produced video content would only have increased further. (Of course this only works in practice if you're engaged with the video, which is also true for lectures).