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Ocean zones animation
Watch the ocean zones drawn step by step: a slice of sea from the sunny surface to the dark sea floor, with each layer darker than the one above. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- 2:53 · 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 vertical cross-section of the ocean from the sunny surface down to the sea floor, divided into exactly four horizontal bands that get darker with depth: a bright light-blue top band just under the sea surface with sun rays and one dolphin; a medium-blue second band with one fish; a dark navy third band with one anglerfish with a small glowing lure; and a near-black bottom band ending in the sandy sea floor with one starfish. A small sun above the sea surface. Only these elements; nothing else in the picture, no labels. 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 zones and depths were checked against NOAA’s JetStream page on the layers of the ocean. NOAA lists five zones; the picture shows four bands down to the sea floor, so the hadal zone in deep trenches is only described in the narration.
Ocean zones, 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 artScientists split the ocean into layers called zones. The deeper you go, the darker it gets.
- 0:27The top layer is the sunlight zone. It goes down to about 200 metres, and most of the ocean’s light is here.
- 0:55Next is the twilight zone, down to about 1,000 metres. Sunlight here is very faint, and some animals start to make their own light.
- 1:22Below that is the midnight zone, down to about 4,000 metres. No sunlight reaches it. The only light comes from glowing animals.
- 1:49ColourDeeper still is the abyss, down to about 6,000 metres. It is pitch black, and only a few creatures live there.
- 2:17Even deeper, in the deepest trenches, is the hadal zone. The deepest spot we know is almost 11,000 metres down.
Where this ocean zones animation fits
Use it in an earth science or geography lesson on oceans, before a project on deep-sea animals, or as a short clip in a nature video for kids. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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