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Greenhouse effect diagram animation
Watch a greenhouse effect diagram drawn step by step: sunlight passing through the air, heat rising from the warm ground, and the gases that send part of it back down. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 1:29 · 2 chapters
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 0:57
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn diagram of the greenhouse effect: a large curved section of the Earth's surface along the bottom with green hills, a few trees and one small factory with a chimney. Above the ground a soft see-through pale blue band of air arches across the picture like a blanket. In the top left corner a bright yellow sun sends three straight yellow ray arrows down through the air band to the ground. From the warm ground, three wavy red heat arrows rise up: one passes out through the air band into space, the other two hit the underside of the air band and bend back down towards the ground. Nothing else in the picture. 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.
Greenhouse effect, 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 artWhy isn’t Earth frozen solid? The air around it works a bit like a warm blanket.
- 0:12Sunlight shines through the air and warms the ground.
- 0:23The warm ground gives off heat, and that heat rises back up towards space.
- 0:35Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide and methane, trap part of that heat and keep it near the ground. This is the greenhouse effect.
- 0:46ColourThey work like the glass walls of a greenhouse. Without them, Earth would be about 33 degrees Celsius colder.
- 0:58Burning coal, oil and gas in power plants and cars adds more of these gases, so more heat is trapped and Earth gets warmer.
Where this greenhouse effect diagram animation fits
Use it in a science lesson on climate and the atmosphere, to start a topic on global warming, or as a short clip in a geography video. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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