How much effort it takes to build decent video/interactive explainers?
I am referring math videos by 3b1b made with manim, blogs with interactive explorables etc. 3b1b makes stunning content but at a slow pace of two months or so per video. What is slowing them? Is it due to difficulty to create prototype because of clunky tools, or slow hardware that drags REPL behind? In addition to the abundance of programming languages and animation tools, What software or medium can we create to make this process more efficient?
they are probably satisfied with the 2 months per video pace. In general content creators seem to experiment a lot until they get to a sweet spot with their audience for their type of content. Also we underestimate the effort researching and putting together high quality content, on top of production effort and the admin effort around running a channel like that.
But it would be interesting to know if there is a tools issue holding them back. Lots of smart engineers here looking to build products to solve for that.