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Anyone know how to do a cool animation of a map?

Michael Chandler

10 years, 1 month 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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Andrew Morgan

10 years, 1 month 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.

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Stephen Cohen

10 years, 1 month ago - Stephen Cohen

Try this:

http://www.izzyvideo.com/motion-animated-map/

spc

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Vasco de Sousa

10 years 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

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Philip Carr

10 years, 1 month ago - Philip Carr

If you like I can have a go at this in Motion 5 for you.

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Sam Seal

10 years, 1 month 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.

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Karel Bata

10 years, 1 month ago - Karel Bata

Some nice tools for use with After Effects at aescripts.com like
http://aescripts.com/geolayers/
http://aescripts.com/locations/

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Jon (Jack) Gritton

10 years, 1 month 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.

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Drew Norton

10 years 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

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