How to Animate the Frontline of a War (Method 1)

I create a lot of conflict maps, and this technique is incredibly useful when visualizing the frontline of a war.

0:00 Intro
0:45 Download Map Features
1:19 Create Korean Peninsula Polygon
1:58 Draw out Country Shape Layers
2:25 Add a Matte Layer
3:30 Add a Mask to the Matte Layer
4:13 Set the Track Matte
5:00 New GEOlayers Course Announcement
5:33 Animate the Mask Path
6:36 Customize the Frontline
9:13 More Track Matte Action
11:12 Connect the Matte to the Map
11:30 Final Animation

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[TheHistoryHubs]

Thanks for this vídeo. I’ve been making history videos, but my maps have been pretty bad. Thanks to your videos, I’m creating better ones now. This one, especially, is going to help me a lot. Thanks again!

[AGoofyGeographyYoutuber]

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[endlesspera]

Love you Boony keep making this type of Battle map animation tutorials

[GeoDab]

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[mapograph]

Exactly what I've been looking for. As usual, thanks a lot!

[itsyaboitinguspingus]

I was looking for an example to help create a "Moving Territory" for a short film of mine. This helps immensely! Your channel has been a great help when it comes to learning more and more about After Effects!

[TheTimtastic]

Really solid tip about Turbulent Displace on solids vs shape layers. That tripped me up a lot when I was first starting to use Geolayers. To add some additional context for anyone who's curious, the reason that this happens is a difference in how AE renders vector vs raster layers.

When you take raster layers into 3D space (or even just resize them) AE interpolates between the positions of each pixel on that layer based on where its fixed position is relative to the camera. This means that turbulent displace can be rendered BEFORE the 3D positioning.

On the other hand, shape layers don't have a fixed position because they're vector paths, so AE recalculates the position of the pixels in 2D space every frame. This is true even when the layers are 3d. Even though the path points might be in 3D space, the actual rendered shape isn't projected into 3D the same way. This means that in essence, the displace is being rendered AFTER the 3D transformation instead of before, thus its position shifts when the layer moves relative to the camera.


This also applies to other raster effects as well, like roughen edges.

One way you can get around this is to precomp your vector layers before applying the effects to them. However, this can cause issues with shapes created using Geolayers because the position values are tied to coordinates. But for everything else, it's a decent workaround.

[SuperDeepesh]

Bro back again with awesome tutorial ❤

[SapFazbear]

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[peace]

Love you Boone❤ pls keep making this type of Battle map animation tutorials🔥👌

[Debubbleization]

woow, thanks for the tip with the solids! Always precomped the things which was a huge pain in the

[oberfuhrerpanzer]

i was waiting for these kinda tutorial for along time, thanks for this

[你说的对-mr]

Oh my god, finally, I have been waiting for this for half a century

[Mr-nobody]

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[CrímenesenlaSombra-in]

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[quyethodox]

Thanks for your instruction. I is very helpful to me. Can you make a video instruction how to add the flag underneath of the maps? You know, Vietnam and Korea have similar history, we were separated.

[saladinomiranda]

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[Le_Bidasse]

is it possible to place a flag instead of a simple color? it seems that i can't add an alpha matte under another

[clipcraftedin]

Please make a video on how to add custom labels in geo layers

[idan_ronen]

Finally! just the video i was looking for. Thanx!
But when you use Turbulence effect you will lose details of the invasion line. If you don't, it will really look too rough and ugly. What do you do then?