Subsea cable dive to fibre
A subsea cable animation in 9:16: a message leaves a phone, crosses a night globe, dives into an ocean cable and a glass fibre. Copy it into Claude to edit.
A message leaves a glowing phone on a night Earth and races to the coast as a comet. It plunges into the sea onto an armoured cable on the seabed, the cable layers telescope apart, and the camera pushes into a fibre tip. Light bounces inside the glass, then the view pulls back to a globe wired with glowing routes.
Change the bubble message, the brand printed on the cable, the three layer words, the fibre line, the data rate and latency figures, the closing line, and the data light, city lights and deep sea colours. The tall 1080x1920 format suits Reels, TikTok and Shorts, and telecom or cloud explainers.
Use it for
- Explaining how the internet crosses oceans
- Telecom or cloud brand explainer
- Vertical Reels about subsea infrastructure
Specs
- Length: 15 seconds
- Format: vertical 9:16 (1080x1920), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: Explainers
What happens, beat by beat
- 0-1.0 s, hook. Looking north-east over the night continent, limb in the top third, the sun just breaking over it. A phone glow on city A; a white chat bubble with [message] pops at 0.12 s.
- 1.0-2.15 s, swoop. The bubble shrinks into a comet (tapered accent trail, white-hot core, ~6 px wide) that runs to a real coastal landing town and out along the cable route. The camera chases and plunges…
- 2.15-3.1 s, dive. Blue fading to black, god rays, the comet as a streak with a bubble trail and its own light, hitting the seabed. ROV lights flicker on at 2.8 s.
- 3.1-3.8 s. Glide low along the cable, half sunk in silt among manganese nodules, the sheath printed [BRAND] • SUBSEA 28 (e.g. an invented cable maker called Brinelight).
- 3.8-4.9 s, cutaway. The flush cut end, then the layers telescope out on eased staggers, fibres splaying with glowing tips. [Steel.] [Copper.] [Glass.] build on one line at 3.9, 4.22, 4.56 s, each with a glint…
- 4.9-5.3 s. Push into one tip; a three-frame cyan flash and an iris opens out of its polished end face.
- 5.3-9.0 s, fibre. Through the end face and out through the cladding, then a diagonal dolly beside the fibre. [Thinner than a hair] 5.5-6.9 s; [200] [terabits per second] 7.0-8.9 s, counting up.
- 9.0-12.0 s, pull-out. The fibre becomes the hero route and the camera pulls out to the whole planet. About 250 routes light up outward from the mid-Atlantic like veins, landing dots blinking on.
- 12.0-15.0 s, landing. City B lower left; the comet lands at 12.8 s, bubble pops, [70] [ms later] counts up. A pulse train rolls back out along every route and [closing line, e.g. "99% of intercontinental…
Post and palette
- 4x MSAA half-float targets, a 48-tap gather depth of field (seabed and fibre), UnrealBloom (0.36 to 0.55), hand-written ACES, vignette, fine grain.
- Palette: [accent, #5CE1FF] for all data light, [warm, #FFB45C] for city lights, [deep, #04223A] for water and void, near-black elsewhere. Expose every bracketed item as a variable.
How the prompt opens
Make a silent 15-second, 9:16 (1080x1920, 30 fps) explainer in Three.js. A [message, e.g. "hi"] leaves a glowing phone in [city A, e.g. London] on a photoreal night Earth, races to the coast as a comet, plunges into the sea onto an armoured cable on the abyssal seabed, the cable's layers telescope apart, the camera pushes into one fibre tip and flies alongside light bouncing inside the glass, then pulls back out to a planet wired with hundreds of glowing cable routes, and the message lands in [city B, e.g. New York]. Swap in your own words, numbers, brand and colours.
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