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Earth rotation animation
Watch Earth’s rotation drawn step by step: the Sun on one side, Earth spinning on its tilted axis, with one half in daylight and the other half in night. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- 0:54 · 2 chapters
- 4:3
- Lines + colour
By Deniffer AlanPublished Tested by Deniffer Alan
Opens Studio with this picture, ready to draw.
The picture it starts from1920 × 1433 px · WEBP
DownloadThe prompt behind the picture
A simple space science illustration: a bright yellow Sun on the far left edge, and a large Earth globe on the right. The Earth's axis is drawn as a thin straight line through the North and South poles, tilted to one side. The half of the Earth facing the Sun is bright daylight and the half facing away from the Sun is dark night, with a clear day-night boundary. One curved arrow wraps around the Earth's middle showing it spinning around its tilted axis. Only these elements: Sun, Earth, axis line, one curved arrow; nothing else in the picture, no stars, no Moon. Lots of empty space, 4:3. Coloured pencil and watercolour marker, clean black ink outlines, warm off-white paper, no text.The picture came from an image model; any finished illustration works the same way, including one you drew. Use the prompt as a starting point for your own topic.
How this clip was made
The picture above was made with an image model from the prompt above; WhiteboardAnimation.ai then drew it, stroke by stroke, as the clip at the top of this page.
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Notes from making it
The narration was checked against NASA’s Earth facts page: one rotation takes 23.9 hours and the axis is tilted 23.4 degrees.
Earth rotation, step by step
A script to read over it, timed to the drawing: the lines go down first and the colour arrives on the last beat.
- 0:00Line artEarth is always spinning. This spinning is called rotation.
- 0:05Earth spins around an imaginary line through the North and South Poles, called its axis.
- 0:10The axis is not straight up and down. It is tilted by about 23.4 degrees.
- 0:15The half of Earth that faces the Sun has daytime. The half facing away has night.
- 0:20ColourAs Earth turns, each place moves from night into day and back again.
- 0:26One full turn takes about 24 hours. That is one day on Earth.
Where this earth rotation animation fits
Use it in a science or geography lesson on day and night, before a classroom demo with a globe and a torch, or as a short clip in a space video for kids. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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