# Truck exhaust ink — 3D explainer short

A 32-second vertical 3D-animated explainer that follows soot from a truck's exhaust pipe to a marker pen. Word-by-word captions carry the story over a chain of match-cut-style scene changes: capture, collection, a health warning, cleaning, grinding, mixing, filling and a final painted creature.

- Code: EX-0070
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Problem and solution
- Length: 32.0s · 17 beats · 31.9 beats/min · 3 hard cuts
- Industry: Energy and climate, Creative studio
- Style: Photoreal, Captions, Match cuts, Morph transitions, Push-ins, Music-led, No voiceover, Bold
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkL9YaDqNTU
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/truck-exhaust-ink-3d-explainer-short

## 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/truck-exhaust-ink-3d-explainer-short.