After Effects: Making an animated map (2 of 2)

The second part of the animated map tutorial. As I add to the aesthetics of the effect, see how to add shape layers (a new CS3 feature) and control the colour of their stroke and fill properties remotely using a color expression controller effect added to a null object. I also show a quick way to add a stroke (i.e. outline) to the stroke (i.e. the path)!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• adobe
• after
• effects
• travel
• map
• shape
• layer
• expression
• controller
• stroke
• path
• fill

[Blinks99]

Great!! That was amazing..

Btw how about if the map is moving???

Can u give me some information, or anyone please..

Thx

[simonsaysfx]

@Blinks99 You could precompose all the layers, then make the rpecomp a 3d layer. Bring it closer to the camera, then animate the position of the camera or the layer. You don't even need the camera if you only want the map to move in X,Y space.

[uzzy125]

Video was really interesting. I would like the name of the cities appear as well. how would that be done

[flegolas]

"im going to grab the anchor point for the star which is.....over HERE (clicks completely off-screen) so it works" great.

[axl20G7]

Can somebody explain how he all of a sudden between movie 1 and 2 loses the line drawn in the beginning, before you add the stroke effect? Thanks a lot!

[rightspy]

Thank you, Simon. You're a really nice person!

[strive4impact]

Simply fantastic tutorial.  Thank-you!

[ZeraYaqob]

thank you. im a beginner and it helped out alot. I wanted to do the map motion path in 3d and ran into mismatched positions between the layers in 3d. It worked when I created a null layer and whip-linked all the layers to it. If you then adjust the null layer in 3d then all the other layers linked to it will also be adjusted at the same time.

[iwatcher69]

great tutorial Simon.  This helped out alot.

[sstannard951]

Cheers min.