How I animate 3Blue1Brown

A Manim demo with Ben Sparks

When I was in the UK a few months ago, I was seeing a friend Ben Sparks, and he wanted to know a bit more about how I animate videos. It’s all with a custom Python Library, manim, so I recorded a session with him to show how I use it.

After a simple hello world example, we create a simple scene showing the famous Lorenz attractor from chaos theory.

For the curious, you can find code for all past 3b1b videos in this repo. I’ve added some details to the Readme of that repo about the specific workflow I use when creating a scene, which depends on a couple of Sublime plugins.