In this comprehensive After Effects tutorial, you'll learn how to create captivating animated maps with GeoLayers3. From setup to customisation, selecting map types, keyframing movement within your maps, labeling (both from GeoLayers database AND custom labels), manual & automatic route creation, adding custom paths and shapes, changing fonts, and finalising your map for rendering.



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CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:58 Setting Up After Effects
3:04 PreRequisite: GeoLayers3
3:44 Set Up GeoLayers3
4:51 Choose your Map Type
5:38 GeoLayers3 Basics
6:05 Working Out What to Animate
6:44 Keyframing the Map Position and Scale
7:34 Adding Labels for Key Locations
10:24 Adding an Animated Route (Manually)
10:54 Bind your Paths to the Map in 3D Space
12:15 Add a Trim Path to our Manual Route
12:54 My Favourite Plugin: Motion 4
13:30 Lining Up the Labels with the Voiceover
14:39 Bind Imagery to the Map Position and Scale
16:01 Adding an Animated Route (Automatically)
18:24 Tips for RePositioning the Map in GeoLayers
19:31 Add Custom Shapes to your Map
22:17 Add Custom Labels to your Map That Don’t Exist in the GeoLayers Directory
23:38 Change the Font and Text Characteristics of your Labels
24:42 Change the Font and Style of Country, City, and Area Labels
25:49 Finalise your GeoLayers Map Ready to Render
26:12 Change the Colour Theme for your Map
26:57 Hide Parks, Rivers, Buildings, and Railways
27:23 Outro



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