Map Animation

Build editorial, "Vox-style" animated maps: a camera that zooms, orbits, and pans over a base map while location pins drop, routes draw on, regions highlight, and labels call out — all snapped to a deliberate 12fps stutter so motion reads as graphic, not photographic. Two production paths: photoreal base motion from Google Earth Studio composited in After Effects, and code-renderable vector maps (GeoJSON/SVG) driven from a coordinates array in Remotion or D3.

When to use

• A documentary/explainer beat that establishes place: zoom from globe to city, orbit a landmark, pan along a border.
• Show movement across geography: a route drawing between two points, a supply chain, a migration, a flight path.
• Highlight a country, state, or region and label it; build a step-by-step geographic walkthrough.
• Turn a list of coordinates/events into a repeatable, data-driven map sequence for video.

Pick the path