Turbofan engine cutaway teardown
Turbofan engine cutaway animation: a jet engine opens over a sunset, then splits into labelled stages. Copy the prompt into Claude and edit it.
A cream and orange turbofan hangs under a wing above a pink sunset cloud sea. The cowl slices open, and a single breath of air is followed as it is sucked in, squeezed, burnt and blown out. The core then floats apart into a labelled line of stages and clicks back to the opening shot, so it loops.
You can edit the maker name on the cowl, the model, four beat captions, pressure ratio, combustor temperature, bypass share, shaft glow, livery orange and sky colour. It works for aerospace explainers, engineering lessons and recruitment videos, in 16:9 for YouTube, a talk or a website header loop.
Use it for
- Aerospace explainer video
- Engineering lecture visual
- Engine maker recruitment loop
Specs
- Length: 24 seconds
- Format: widescreen 16:9 (1920x1080), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: 3D
What happens, beat by beat
- 0 to 1.5 s, hero. Low camera below the wing, sun in frame back-right, fan fast and motion-blurred, a glint on the polished lip.
- 1.5 to 3.3 s, the cut. A plane sweeps nose to tail removing the top-front quarter. The fan spools down to a readable speed.
- 3.5 to 5.8 s, flow arrives. Air streaks sweep in, funnel into the intake and mostly flow round the core.
- 4.6 to 8.4 s, Suck. Caption 1: [Suck: the fan pulls in a huge mass of air, most of it bypasses the core.]
- 8.8 to 12.2 s, Squeeze. Core streaks slow, pack tighter and warm from blue to cream. Caption 2: [Squeeze: the compressor squeezes it about [40] times, heating it.]
- 12.6 to 15.4 s, Bang. Ignition at 12.65 s: the combustor ring lights round both sides from the top in 0.3 s, orange spill floods the cut, the camera shudders and pushes in. Caption 3: [Bang…
- 15.8 to 18.9 s, Blow. Turbine edges glow red-orange; an orange shimmering jet leaves inside a cold blue bypass ring. Caption 4: [Blow: hot gas spins the turbines and blasts out the back.]
- 19.0 to 22.75 s, exploded view. The core drops out of the cowl (which stays on the pylon) and seven modules slide apart along the axis, staggered, with a gentle bob. Labels arrive 19.6 to 20.2…
- 22.75 to 24 s, reassembly. Everything slides home, the camera whips back to the hero, flow and flame return, and a [BRAND] / [MODEL] lock-up lands top-left at 23.1 s.
Light, sky and post
- Shader sky dome: indigo zenith, [sky colour, lavender] mid, pink belt, peach horizon, a sun disc with a warm corona. Below it, ray-march a side-lit height-field cloud sea fogged into…
- Environment from the same sky via PMREM. Warm key front-right lighting the cut faces, soft 4K shadows, plus a back rim from the visible sun (a cheat). Cyan fills along…
- Cream clay-paint nacelle with clearcoat, orange stripe, canvas brand decal.
- HDR with 4x MSAA, gather depth of field, bloom threshold 2.1, ACES, vignette and fine grain.
What you can change
- Expose as variables: brand, model, the four captions, pressure ratio, gas temperature, bypass share, core colour, accent colour and sky colour.
How the prompt opens
Make a silent 24-second, 16:9 (1920x1080, 30 fps) Three.js film. A cream-and-orange turbofan hangs under an airliner wing above a pink sunset sea of clouds. The cowl slices open, one breath of air is followed as it is sucked, squeezed, burnt and blown, then the core floats apart into a labelled line of stages and clicks back into the opening shot, so it loops. The maker on the cowl is an invented example (e.g. an engine brand called [your brand] with a model [your model code]); swap in your own words, numbers and colours.
The full prompt runs 1,094 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.