Purujit-Kulshreshtha
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2 years ago Pathfinding is something that fascinates me to my core... I've actually implemented it in software with real-world utility on more than one occasion. I have years of experience with video-making and have been meaning to dive into educational/documentary content for quite a while. This is something really up my street.
About the author
My name is Dr. David Churchill, I'm an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Memorial University. I specialize in Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence, mainly heuristic search and path-finding algorithms. I live-stream all of my course lectures and publish them for free on my YouTube Channel. You can see my course playlists here: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/teaching.shtml
Quick Summary
I would like to produce a high-quality video on an introduction to path-finding algorithms, which gives the viewer an introduction to path-finding up to the A* (a-star) search algorithm. I have an animated demo of this algorithm available on my website:
https://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/search/
I give a lecture on this topic that goes into a lot of detail, but I would like to condense it down into its most important parts and give it some nice animations for polish. You can view that lecture here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w7AZy-RdlQ
Target medium
I already have all of the content created for teaching this topic, along with slides and software. I am looking for a high quality 2D (or possibly 3D) animation specialist who would like to help me produce a video on this topic. The animations would involve multi-colored grid environments, with agents moving around in that environment, with arrows, text, and other explanatory graphics.
Contact details
The best way to contact me is via email at dave.churchill@gmail.com
Please include a portfolio of animation in your initial email if you are interested