The Ocean’s Night Shift

An original English-language science film. 1:37.7 · 1920 × 1080 · 60 FPS.

Production

Original story, vector illustration, animation, music and sound effects: Codex. English narration generated with Chatterbox. Typography: Jost, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Rendering: @napi-rs/canvas; encoding: FFmpeg / libx264.

The visual study drew on Kurzgesagt’s The Fat Problem. Directing-method inspiration: lemo-opuscar. No reference footage, narration or music is included.

Research

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — Ocean Twilight Zone
• NOAA Ocean Exploration — Vertical migration
• NOAA Ocean Service — Marine snow
• Longhurst et al. (1990) — Respiratory carbon transport

The illustrations are explanatory schematics. Not every animal migrates; the film does not quantify global carbon flux or promise a fixed storage time.

Public edition

The published MP4 is the accepted V32 master. SHA-256: 60f968714d1e900292e4784fbd1cf9fa6d8f25b81fea7a10fb0b600f19917967.

English subtitles and transcript accompany the film. The reusable style package contains methods and empty production inputs; this film’s story and media are distributed separately.