3D animation services for energy and data center power
Product explainers, cutaways, exploded views, flythroughs, trade-show loops and interactive 3D for the companies that make and build data center power: gas turbines, reciprocating gensets, fuel cells, batteries, switchgear, microgrids, liquid cooling, modular data centers and whole behind-the-meter campuses.
Built by people who know what a compressor stage, a switchgear lineup and a coolant loop look like, so turbines look like turbines and the breakers sit where they should.
Services
Product explainer animations
One to two minutes that show what your machine does and why it is built the way it is. For your website, sales calls and launches.
Cutaways and exploded views
Open the casing or pull the parts apart along their real axis, so buyers see what is inside and how it fits together.
Plant and campus flythroughs
A camera path through a gas plant, battery yard or data center campus, from the gas meter to the data hall.
Trade-show booth loops
Silent, seamless loops built to read from across the aisle on a booth screen, with no voiceover needed.
Investor and permitting visuals
Accurate stills and short animations for decks, lender meetings, permit applications and community hearings.
Interactive 3D and training
Browser-based 3D models people can turn and open, and training modules built on Stone Graphic Design's eLearning work.
Style frames. Project work is shown on request.
Equipment we animate in 3D
3D animation of the equipment that powers and cools data centers, inside and out. Each guide linked below explains how the equipment works; the animation shows it.
Gas turbine animation
Aeroderivative and industrial frame units, from the inlet filter house through the compressor, combustor and power turbine to the exhaust stack. We show them as cutaways, airflow and combustion paths, and package flythroughs that open the enclosure, so buyers see how the machine turns gas into power and why the package is built the way it is.
Reciprocating genset animation
Gas engines and their alternators, turbochargers, radiators, exhaust silencers and the enclosure around them. A cutaway can follow the air and fuel into the cylinders and the power out of the alternator, then pull back to show a row of units on a pad, so a buyer sees one genset and the whole plant.
Fuel cell animation
Fuel cell stacks, reformers, power modules and the cabinets that hold them. Exploded views pull the stack apart along its real axis, cell by cell, and a process view follows the fuel and air through the module to DC power and the inverter, so buyers understand a box that has no moving parts to watch.
BESS animation
Battery containers and enclosures, from cells and modules to racks, the battery management system, HVAC or liquid thermal management and fire protection. Cutaways open the container wall, and system views show how the battery yard, the power conversion system and the switchgear carry a site through a load step or an outage.
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Switchgear and UPS animation
Medium- and low-voltage lineups, drawout breakers, busways, UPS systems and transfer switches. We animate the power path through the electrical room, rack a breaker in and out, and show what the transfer switch and UPS do in the seconds after a source drops, the sequence buyers and operators most need to understand.
Microgrid animation
How generators, batteries, solar, the grid tie and the controller share a campus. A microgrid animation shows the sources picking up load, the site islanding when the utility drops and resynchronizing when it returns, with the power flow drawn on the real equipment instead of a block diagram.
Modular data center animation
Prefabricated data halls, power skids and containerized IT modules, from the factory floor to the pad. We show the modules being built, shipped, set and connected, then open them up to the racks, power distribution and cooling inside, so buyers see how fast a site goes up and what arrives on each truck.
Liquid cooling animation
Coolant distribution units, cold plates, manifolds, immersion tanks and dry coolers. We follow the coolant from the CDU to the chip and back out to heat rejection, with temperatures and flow shown on the loop, so buyers see how the heat leaves the rack and where your product sits in that path.
Flare gas to power animation
Separators, gas conditioning skids, compressors and gensets at the wellsite, and the load they feed. We follow associated gas that would be flared from the separator through conditioning to the generator and on to a modular data center or field equipment, the story investors and operators want told in one clear sequence.
Data center campus animation
The whole site: gas supply, the power plant, substation, batteries, data halls and cooling. Flythroughs follow the energy from the gas meter to the rack, and phased views show the campus being built out over time, for investor decks, lender meetings, permit applications and community hearings.
Deliverables and formats
- 4K MP4The master file at 3840 x 2160, plus 1080p and social cuts on request.
- Seamless loopsSilent loops for booth screens and lobby displays that never show a jump.
- StillsHigh-resolution frames for decks, brochures, filings and print.
- Web embedsLightweight MP4 and WebM files with poster frames, sized for your product pages.
- Interactive 3DBrowser-based models people can turn and open, and training modules on request.
What we need from you
- CAD or STEP filesSTEP and IGES work best. Native SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, NX or Revit exports are fine too.
- P&IDs and one-linesSo the piping, valves, breakers and power flow in the animation match the real design.
- Data sheets and drawingsGeneral arrangement drawings, dimensions, ratings and the parts you want to feature.
- Photos and site plansPhotos of built units, factory floors or the site, plus a plot plan for campus and plant work.
Whatever exists today is enough to start. We sign an NDA before you send anything sensitive.
How a project works
- Brief and CAD/dataA short call about the audience, the message and the deadline. You send CAD or STEP files, P&IDs, one-lines, data sheets and photos, and we send a fixed-price quote for a defined scope.
- StoryboardWe script the shots and the camera path, then show you a storyboard and style frames before any animation starts.
- Animation and review roundsYou review draft cuts for engineering accuracy and message. The review rounds are set out in the quote.
- Delivery formatsFinal 4K MP4, seamless loops, stills, web embeds or an interactive model, sized for your website, booth screens and decks.
Questions
How long does a project take?
It depends on length and detail. A short loop built from clean CAD moves much faster than a multi-minute campus flythrough. We give you a schedule with the quote, and we plan backward from trade-show and launch dates when you tell us early.
How many revisions do we get?
Each quote sets out review rounds at the storyboard, draft animation and final stages. Changes beyond the agreed scope are quoted before we make them, never billed as a surprise.
What CAD formats do you take?
STEP and IGES work best. We also take SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, NX, Revit, FBX and OBJ, plus 2D drawings, P&IDs and one-line diagrams. We simplify heavy assemblies and leave out internal detail you do not want shown.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes. We sign your NDA, or send ours, before you share CAD, drawings or details of unreleased products. Unreleased products stay out of our portfolio unless you approve.
Who owns the files?
You get the rights to use the final videos, stills and interactive files in your marketing, sales, training and filings. What happens to the 3D source and working files is written into the quote, so tell us up front if you need them.
How do you price a project?
Quotes are fixed-price for a defined scope, after a short call about the audience, length, level of detail and deadline. There is no hourly meter running. The budget ranges on the project form help us suggest the right scope.
Can you work without CAD?
Often, yes. Data sheets, drawings and good photos are enough for many marketing animations. For close-up cutaways of your own product, CAD makes the result faster and more exact.
Who do we contract with?
Quotes, contracts and invoices come from Stone Graphic Design, the Oklahoma studio behind Off Grid Data.
Show them how it works.
Tell us about the equipment, the audience and the deadline. We reply with questions or a fixed-price quote for a defined scope.