# Chinese history — Ink-drop tour of five thousand years

A silent, hand-drawn explainer that races through Chinese history dynasty by dynasty. A small ink-drop character watches each era's stick-figure scene, and a typed caption narrates it. It ends on a brush circle that reads 'five thousand years, one drawing never finished'.

- Code: EX-0002
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: 2D character animation
- Length: 157.6s · 19 beats · 7.2 beats/min · 0 hard cuts
- Industry: Education, Media
- Style: Flat 2D, Hand-drawn, Characters, Captions, Minimal, No voiceover, Slow and deliberate, Humorous
- Original: https://x.com/akokoi1/status/2102583898865873225
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/chinese-history-ink-drop-tour-of-five-thousand-years

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/chinese-history-ink-drop-tour-of-five-thousand-years.