Motion for journalists #3 | Animate maps
Channel: Antoine Schirer
Date: 18/01/2022

This is the first of two tutorials on how to make and animate maps for video journalism. In this first one, we gonna see how to work with vector maps. 
00:00 Intro
00:52 Get an empty map
01:28 Prepare your map in Adobe Illustrator
06:34 Import it in After Effects and set up your project   
08:57 Highlight a country with a blinking animation
10:32 Zoom into the map (with Null objects and EaseAndWizz)
11:36 To fix the bluriness, rasterize the vector layers
12:03 tweak map design by editing the Illustrator file  
12:57 Add a label
14:32 Create a dot and name tag to point out a city 

➡ Ressources
- Raw map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_location_map_(W3).svg (Credits: TUBS, Alexrk2)
- EaseAndWizz: https://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz
- Adobe After Effects (Free trial available): https://www.adobe.com/fr/products/aftereffects.html
- Adobe Illustrator (Free trial available): https://www.adobe.com/fr/products/illustrator.html

If you are lost, take some time to do the first tutorial of this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpRQx9hn4c0

➡ More tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPMZwxuufjI25U61-bN076ngV5L0H6DUy


➡ Credits
Music: Road Tripzzz - Ofshane (Youtube Music Library)
Many thanks to: Sylvain, Luiz, Bertram

➡ About me: https://antoineschirer.fr