Whiteboard AnimationEducation · Science lesson · 1:04
Seasons diagram animation
Watch a seasons diagram drawn step by step: the sun in the middle, the tilted Earth at four points of its orbit, and a tree for spring, summer, autumn and winter. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 1:04 · 2 chapters
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 0:43
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn diagram of why we have seasons: a bright yellow sun in the centre and a thin dotted oval orbit around it with no arrows. The Earth is drawn four times on the orbit, at the far left, the far right, the top and the bottom. Each Earth is a blue and green globe with a thin dark axis line through its north and south poles, and the axis is tilted the same amount and leans in exactly the same direction (top of the axis leaning to the right) on all four Earths, parallel to each other. Beside each Earth stands one small tree: next to the left Earth (north pole leaning towards the sun) a tree full of green summer leaves; next to the right Earth (north pole leaning away from the sun) a bare winter tree with a little snow; next to the top Earth a tree with pink spring blossoms; next to the bottom Earth a tree with orange autumn leaves. 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.
Seasons, 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 is it hot in summer and cold in winter? It all comes from the way Earth is tilted.
- 0:09Earth travels around the sun, and it spins around a line through its poles called its axis.
- 0:17That axis is tilted, and it keeps leaning the same way all the way around the sun.
- 0:26In June the northern half of Earth leans towards the sun. It gets more hours of daylight, so it is summer there.
- 0:35ColourIn December the northern half leans away from the sun. It gets fewer hours of daylight, so it is winter.
- 0:44Spring and autumn start on the days when day and night are about the same length. And the southern half of Earth always has the opposite season.
Where this seasons diagram animation fits
Use it in a science lesson to show why we have seasons, to start a topic on Earth and the sun, or as a short clip in a geography video. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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