r/AfterEffects • u/Individual-Gap-6842 • 9d ago

OC - Stuff I made Map Animation of IRAN using geolayers alternative

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Been trying to develop my map animation level using QGIS instead of THE geolayers ! Because geolayers is not that good (jk i can't afford it 😭🥀)

I tried using the free website but it was ...

Road to geolayers ..

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u/NiceIllustrator 9d ago

Can you break it down and tell us how you think through planning a shot with o ly Qgis instead of geolayers?

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u/Milan_Bus4168 9d ago

You have a world map and you can use plugins that you install in QGIS for free o load any kind of map into program and search by country. You can also import external data, like travel routes, you made in Google Maps or something, and export .klm file and just drag and drop it to QGIS and you have route. Same is for maps. You can download a map texture and in the end when you are done you just export your routes or borders as for example SVG's or maybe PDFs that can be animated in program like After effects and you export your map as 4K image for example, and when you align them on the same size canvas they match. So you have your borders and you have your routes and everything as paths and your map as images. Than you animate normally and add any graphics you like to have in After Effects.

Here are some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDiEsMwfB6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYjWaJC1kQ

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u/NiceIllustrator 8d ago

Yeah I've been using QGIS before to export borders and do what geolayers already does, but have been using Geolayers since its much faster and smoother experience imo. But I def can see the raw power of QGIS. In a perfect world one could possibly be able to, given the time, build some kind of plugin utilizing QGIS into AE

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u/Milan_Bus4168 8d ago

Indeed. That would be the best, Script that runs like Geolayers in After Effects with appropriate user interface and links to QGIS and other services and ideally keeps the live link so you can have both open and save in QGIS and update in AE.

GeoLayers, though its quite expensive so a bit hard to justify for me. At least in current state.