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INDEXAnyone know how to do a cool animation of a map?
10 years, 3 months ago - Michael Chandler
Hi
We're producing a short film about our recent touring theatre show Benefit (you may have seen my previous post about its recent live-streaming). The tour has been all across the UK - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and gained a great amount of vox pops from audiences across the UK.
I was hoping someone can advise about how to make an animated map showing the tour and its journey - is there any software available that does it? Or, if you're an animator, would you be interested in doing something like this?
Many thanks
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10 years, 3 months ago - Andrew Morgan
That depends, would you be interested in paying for it? ;)
There's no specific tool for doing this sort of thing although it's easily achievable in most of the 2D/3D creative tools out there - you should be able to do this in After Effects without too much trouble.
10 years, 3 months ago - Stephen Cohen
Try this:
http://www.izzyvideo.com/motion-animated-map/
spc
10 years, 2 months ago - Vasco de Sousa
I suppose you've done this already.
There are different animations you could do.
One is tracing the map, another is tracing the route. I have done both kinds of things in Motion 5 and Flash, but these could also be done with free software like Blender.
Here's something I made last year (Motion):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X0PnpVqg6I
And here's what I made when I really had no idea what I was doing a few years ago (flash):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwdJb9pmSw
10 years, 3 months ago - Philip Carr
If you like I can have a go at this in Motion 5 for you.
10 years, 3 months ago - Sam Seal
Digital effects are never as impressive as actual shooting. Get a huge map of Britain and film/animate the places with big signs that you pin in, or something similar.
10 years, 3 months ago - Karel Bata
Some nice tools for use with After Effects at aescripts.com like
http://aescripts.com/geolayers/
http://aescripts.com/locations/
10 years, 3 months ago - Jon (Jack) Gritton
You could make a Google Earth tour movie: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148137?hl=en
You do require permission from Google to use it for public distribution but I don't think it's a problem.
10 years, 2 months ago - Drew Norton
Hey Michael,
I created this animated map sequence with After Effects, let me know if something similar would suit your needs. Best of luck.
http://www.restonfilms.com/portfolio/masa/
Drew