3D printer thermal build
A 3D printer thermal build animation: a molten nozzle lays a bead, a gyroid gear housing rises layer by layer. Copy it into Claude and make it yours.
A glossy black nozzle holds a glowing molten drop over a bronze bed, then drops to squash it into a bright puddle. The camera cuts to a side-on macro of the bead, races along the first layers, then time-lapses a gyroid-filled gear housing in quarter-section. The finished part lifts and turns in raking light as the brand lands.
Change the brand and brand line, the headline with its layer count and layer height, nozzle and bed temperatures, filament colour, the thermal warm, cool and amber tones, and the studio backdrop. At 1080x1920 and 13 seconds, it suits Reels, TikTok and Shorts launches for printers, filament or engineering services.
Use it for
- Desktop printer launch teaser
- Filament brand social ad
- Engineering service showreel clip
Specs
- Length: 13 seconds
- Format: vertical 9:16 (1080x1920), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: 3D
What happens, beat by beat
- 0.0-2.0 Hook. Low macro, 27 to 22 mm from the tip, tip on the upper-third line. A molten drop hangs from the orifice; at 1.42 s the nozzle descends and the drop squashes into a glowing…
- 2.0-3.0 Bead. Side-on extreme macro (8.5 mm, 20 degree lens) so the [0.20 mm] bead is about 130 px tall, with cream dimension ticks and a leader label. A low back rim light skims the bead's…
- 3.0-4.0 Comet. High angle beyond a printed hairpin turnaround, looking along the new line; the nozzle runs away up the frame and the line behind it glows white, amber, ember, then cools to blue.
- 4.0-5.0 Layer 2. Low chase behind the nozzle as layer 2 crosses layer 1 at 90 degrees. Counter "LAYER 002 / 170" appears top-left.
- 5.0-6.5 Rise. Top-down camera tilting to three-quarter as the part climbs; the hotend traces the live top layer's outer perimeter on the far side, dragging a comet tail of heat.
- 6.5-8.0 Section. Three-quarter orbit at about 140 mm on a quarter cut so the gyroid infill shows. Headline [{layers} layers. {lh} mm each.] ticks in word by word (0.2 s stagger, each word rising 16 px)…
- 8.0-10.0 Inside. Macro push from 78 to 46 mm into the cut wall, tracking just under the climbing top; the counter races to 170.
- 10.0-13.0 Hero. Low three-quarter at about 320 mm. One edge peels first (a 4 degree tilt and visible shadow gap), then the part lifts 7 mm and yaws about 60 degrees. An X-ray window wipes across…
Light and materials
- Studio: procedural environment (near-black room, hot top card, two hard strips, soft zenith box) through PMREM, rotated per shot so a strip sweeps the hex in the hook. One shadowing…
- Materials: black-oxide nozzle (metalness 0.85, roughness 0.16, clearcoat 1), anodised block, mirror steel, glossy black filament. The hero switches the part to satin charcoal so a raking key at 4.5…
- Bed: [bronze] textured PEI with a seeded procedural grain normal map, fading with distance into a grey seamless backdrop drawn in the composite.
What you can change
- Expose as variables: [brand], [tagline], [headline], [nozzle and bed temperatures], [layer height] (drives bead size, ribs, layer count and labels), [filament colour], [thermal warm, cool…
How the prompt opens
Make a silent 13-second, 9:16 (1080x1920), 30 fps product film in Three.js. A glossy black printer nozzle with a glowing molten drop lands on a bronze print bed, lays a 0.2 mm bead, races along the first layers, then a gyroid-filled gear housing rises out of nothing in time-lapse, shown in a quarter-section cut. The finished part peels off the bed, lifts and turns in a raking light while [your brand, e.g. an invented desktop printer called STRATA P1] lands. Throughout, flat "thermal camera" windows slide over the frame and re-colour what is behind them as heat. Swap in your own brand, numbers and colours.
The full prompt runs 1,095 words. Copy it free (2 a day) from this page.
Copy the prompt into Claude, or pull the scene into Claude Code and render the MP4 on your machine: how it works.