7 Map Creation Tools for Adobe After Effects 🌎

how's it going everyone my name is Boone and today I'm going to be talking about a few different tools and resources you can use that are gonna help you create maps inside of Adobe After Effects and if you have any favorites please let me know in the comments section and if you think I left some cool tool out please as well share that with me in the comment section [Music] so the first plugin is certainly the most popular and it's 100% free video co-pilots orb is the most ultimate 3d sphere plugin for Doby after-effects it allows users to create incredibly realistic spheres via a physical based shader create realistic textures with environment reflection maps motion blur and advanced UV settings add atmosphere and ship from day to night with advanced illumination effects orb works for the default 3d cameras inside of After Effects and as you'll see later in the video it's also used in other plugins now in my opinion the learning curve for this plugin is a bit steep so you'll need to know your way around After Effects and the wonderful world of 3d as well this is another free option and it's one of my personal favorites Google Earth studio is a browser-based animation tool that allows users to create and export custom Google Earth animations the animations are rendered out as image sequences which you can easily bring into Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro as a clip file the real power of Google or Studio is how you can export 3d data for After Effects via a script file which includes track points and the camera data simply run the script file in Adobe After Effects which will create the comp import the image sequence and setup the animated 3d camera with the track point data it'll have a null layer as well as a text element I have a ton of tutorials on Google Earth Studios so just go check out my playlist called Monday maps to see more those free vector maps kaam is a really great resource and as the name implies the website provides a plethora of vector maps available for download you can get them as illustrator files EPS PDF PNG and JPEG formats to use a map for free you simply need to provide the necessary attribution in your project or you can pay a small fee and I made really small fee most of these are about three US dollars and then you can use it without the attribution what I like to do is bring these vectors into Adobe After Effects and then convert them to shape layers this really opens up a lot of options when you're animating these elements the ultimate earth zoom tool kit is one of the most popular map related tools you'll find in the intifada marketplace one of the reasons for this is it's an extremely easy tool to use according to the Creator even a 4 year old can create amazing looking totally personalized videos with 120 Plus pre animated elements that all have sound effects by the way users have a ton of customization options these pre animated elements include titles media holders info boxes call-outs markers pointers signals map signs as well as a handful of icons map route generator is an After Effects template project that comes with the script as well and just like the previous tool the workflow is really simple it's very user friendly simply import your map and then use this script to add your locator and place them in the correct positions once you've got all those locators in place select them all and select create path the script will allow you to control the entire animation you can set the duration of the animation decide if you want to stop on a point it has different animation options you can have follow paths rotate around the tracker or free camera mode you can specify the distance and the altitude of the camera as well as a handful of other design elements I have a standalone tutorial for this one so be sure to follow that link in the video description to check out more now if you like map route connector you're gonna love this tool that's because it's from the same creator and this is the same deal it's an After Effects template project that comes with a script file now this particular plugin works in conjunction with Video Copilot orb so you don't need to bring your own map like you do with map route generator it's really simple to use just plug in your locations and add points and then simply hit the create connection button I can customize the style of the locator pins as well as the path I can also customize different aspects of the earth including the clouds I can change it from day to night I can add some haze there's also entirely different styles of maps including realistic old map watercolor dotted and vector another really cool option is you can highlight up to 181 countries and even the 50 individual United States so last but not least is the Gio layers plug-in this is really in its own individual category you're gonna see a huge jump in price here and that's because the things that you can do with this particular plugin are pretty vast it's almost pretty much anything that you would ever want to do with an animated map you can probably do it inside of geo layers what this plugin allows you to do is search the internet and pull geospatial data and basically turn those into elements to drive your animation I can animate in 3d space I can extrude 3d buildings there's a ton of different map styling options I can do really in-depth data-driven and data visualization projects and in conjunction with a few other plugins like trapcode mir3 metal freeform Pro or raw byte plexus I can create these awesome 3d landscapes and it's really as simple as just one click within the plugin again this is really in its own category and I have quite a few standalone tutorials that I've done on my channel so follow those links in the video description okay I hope you enjoyed the video if you did be sure to hit that thumbs up button if you want to see more content like this be sure to subscribe to the channel and hit that notification belt so you'll receive the updates and again let me know in the comments section what were your favorite items on the list and if you think I left something out please share that with me [Music]

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Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 31 2020