Films
Films about learning anything
Short films about DuckyHelper and Eddy, your tutor. Most follow one real question, like how a bee makes honey or why ice floats, and show the answer on screen.
23 films, 22 minutesHover to preview, click to watch with soundTap a film to watch it with sound
Welcome to DuckyHelper
Built and trained for personal, one-on-one teaching. Eddy hears “how does blood clot?”, and the film ends on two lines: built to teach, personal to you.
Every film, one question at a time
More ducky. More helper.
Learning is changing. Meet Eddy, a tutor and a companion that gives you hints and pictures, so you can ask without being judged.
Askshow does a bee make honey?
Ask. See. Learn.
Your question, your move. A guitar string question becomes a picture you can change: pluck the string and see how it makes a note.
Askshow does a guitar string make a note?
It’s built by asking
What would you learn if you could learn anything? A learner asks about the golden ratio, and Eddy draws the golden rectangle and labels it.
Askswhat is the golden ratio?
Curiosity, answered.
Ask, before you guess. Eddy hears why a minor chord sounds sad and shows the chord on a keyboard, with the root and the minor third.
Askswhy does a minor chord sound sad?
Why does ice float?
The question started small. Molecule by molecule, the film works it out: water packs in tight, ice holds its neighbors at arm’s length.
Askswhy does ice float?
Follow your curiosity
Any question. Any subject. Eddy hears why you feel lighter in an elevator going down, and one question leads to the next.
Askswhy do you feel lighter in an elevator going down?
Not just the answer. The why.
When’s the last time something made you wonder? Ask why a pendulum keeps time, and Eddy shows you, with a pendulum sim you can change.
Askswhy does a pendulum keep time?
1/36 = 1 in 36
Two dice land on 6 and 6. What does a probability of 1/36 mean? Eddy’s chart shows all 36 ways two dice can land.
Askswhat does a probability of 1/36 mean with two dice?
Keep asking
The questions people ask about learning now that AI can do the homework, from worry to hope. There’s a way into hard questions.
Askswhat is E = mc² saying?
Built to show you how it works
An identity film: the duck draws itself, DuckyHelper builds letter by letter, and a poster asks how vaccines teach your body.
Askshow do vaccines teach your body?
Is this the way you want to learn?
Homework is becoming less work and more copied. DuckyHelper is a tutor for any subject that lets you see how it works, like why Van Gogh painted like that.
Askswhy did Van Gogh paint like that?
Trust your curiosity
Remember how you started learning, for fun? A learner asks how perspective drawing works, and Eddy draws a chair in two-point perspective.
Askshow does perspective drawing work?
What is a chemical bond?
A type film built on one question. The answer is a picture: two atoms sharing a pair of electrons. The learning is never done.
Askswhat is a chemical bond?
Or just ask
The world is getting louder: more tabs, more videos, more searching than learning. Maybe one day. Or just ask how muscles move.
Askshow do muscles move?
Ask the question you have, out loud
See the pyramids in one picture, then learn anything, step by step. Eddy hears how the pyramids got built.
Askshow did the pyramids get built?
Learners don’t wait
The greatest discoveries didn’t start in a classroom. The Wright brothers taught themselves to fly; today a learner asks Eddy how they did it.
Askshow did the Wright brothers fly?
Taught the way you learn
Renaissance paintings carry one question, what was the Renaissance? Eddy shows you, step by step, on your Mac.
Askswhat was the Renaissance?
Your learning is global
Your questions should move like it. Eddy starts counting to ten in Japanese: ichi, ni, san, shi, go. One tutor, across languages.
AsksCount to ten in Japanese?
Anyone can learn anything
An archival montage of the American dream, a champion’s advice to stay a white belt in your mind and keep learning, and Eddy on why practice makes you better.
Askswhy does practice make you better?
A shelf for every subject
Chemistry, anatomy, physics, poetry, algebra, Viking history: every school subject gets its own little stack of books, then all of them at once.
Here when you ask. Quiet when you don’t.
DuckyHelper’s design language, from one waiting dot to the duck mark. Ask why the sunset is orange: blue scatters away, orange gets through.
Askswhy is the sunset orange?
How it was built
A model built to teach
Answers aren’t learning. So we asked how people actually learn: 100+ papers, 1,000,000+ teaching examples, and one model built to guide, quiz and space practice out.
