Camera Movements on Maps
Here is another example from one of my old projects which shows how a hypothetical Taiwanese attack on the Three Gorges Dam could look like in a war situation between China and Taiwan. The animation has some great drone-like arial movement to show the missiles. Makes it a little more realistic footage-like look even though nothing in this is real footage.
Looking back now I could have made a few things better in this which I will list below: -
1. Could have toned downed the vignette a bit, it looks a little too distracting.
2. The shape for Taiwan in Natural Earth database is a little crooked, which I usually fix the kinks in the shape by manually moving around the nodes in the layer, but I have no idea why I did not do that. For a 10-20 second animation the amount of work doesn't make sense, but this was a full 10ish minute video which needed around 40-50 hours of work so in this particular context manually making the shape perfect would have been the way to go.
2. The shape for Taiwan in Natural Earth database is a little crooked, which I usually fix the kinks in the shape by manually moving around the nodes in the layer, but I have no idea why I did not do that. For a 10-20 second animation the amount of work doesn't make sense, but this was a full 10ish minute video which needed around 40-50 hours of work so in this particular context manually making the shape perfect would have been the way to go.
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The second clip here shows the Chinese intrusions in and around the Taiwanese Air Defence Identification Zone.
Animator's Notes: The process of making this was basically taking a diagram I was provided by the client, recreating it identically then making a few changes here and there as needed to make it 'transition-in' and added the airplanes and made them go in circles.
The floating country highlight text with shadow is one of the things that I've kept consistent in my animations, removing or changing the style only when a client requests specifically.
