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Animated map of Hawaii?
Hello,
I work on a cruise ship as a videographer and I am trying to figure out how to animate a map of Hawaii. I have used motion in the past to draw a red line following the path of the ship.
I first need to generate a map of Hawaii and Los Angeles that is hires enough to zoom in and move around on? I was told to try Illustrator to make the map but I am not that familiar with Illustrator.Any ideas on how I can do this?
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Do you want a realistic looking map or a vector art looking map?
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
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On my other ships they had a map that had just ports and the continents were all one colour.
So it was a graphically designed map designed to be easily read by the average joe.It does not have to be realistic but I am open to anything at this point!
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Okay, cool. For a map to Hawaii and Los Angeles you may want to consider just buying one for $10 or so at a place such as iStockPhoto. When doing a search you may want to only search Illustrations. There are a lot to choose from. That way you don’t need to learn Illustrator but you still get a professional looking map. That Illustrator map can be imported directly into Motion. You’ll have to change some settings and I’m more then happy to walk you through it if you like me to. Anyways, if it is a Illustrator file you can make it vector in Motion so you can zoom in as much as you want with no lose of quality. Let me know if you need those steps. Hope this helped and best of luck.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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thanks dude. I gotta go but I will give one of those maps a try later on
Funkin it up Old School
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Sounds good Richard, let me know if you have any other questions.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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Hi Stephen
I am finally on my way to hawaii on the cruise ship and getting ready to do the map animation. I have an experienced photo shop artist on the ship and she is going to try to create the Vector map for me. Can this be done in Photo Shop or only Illustrator? any special instructions I should give her on how to do it? Also you said I would have to change some settings in motion for this. Can you walk me through this?
I would like to slightly round the map and tilt down and zoom on it to follow a red line as it moves across the ocean to Hawaii and then lands on a Red dot marking Hilo Hawaii. Then the next piece will animate a red line from Hilo to Nawiliwili.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Richard Norman Pengelly
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It needs to be done in Illustrator or some other vector art program that can save files as an .ai. You can import AI files into Motion and if set right you can maintain its vector quality.
Your Illustrator file needs to be RGB and not CMYK. Be sure to save the AI file with PDF compatibility. After you bring it into Motion, just select it, press Shift+F (takes to you the Media tab), then uncheck the Fixed Resolution checkbox. This will allow the vector image to be rasterized at whatever size it is on-screen. Hope this helps.
If you are doing Photoshop then you’ll want it to be built bigger then your working area. Don’t go bigger then 72 dpi. TV is 72 dpi so any bigger dpi will just slow down Motion and not give you any extra quality. Remember, the bigger the image the more is will play sluggishly.
Hope this helps.Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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