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This course takes you from zero to learn 3D-map making and various advanced animation techniques. Whether a map-making newbie or a designer with some foundation, you benefit. The content is rich, covering everything from basic operation to advanced techniques, helping you easily master the essence of 3D-map production.

Outline

1. 3D-map production — orientation
   • Interface and functions of the 3D-map software
2. 3D-map basic operation
   • Keyboard shortcuts for 3D-map operation
   • Adding paths and planning camera-motion routes
   • Landmark attribute settings and inter-location animation
   • China-border display and geographic-data import
   • Recording an orbit animation
   • Switching Google Earth place names to simplified Chinese
   • Keyboard shortcuts for 3D-map operation
   • 01 landmark attribute settings and inter-location animation
3. Basic animation production
   • 01 hand-drawn regions and elements displayed in time order
   • Using the web program to adjust element display order
   • 02 using the web program to adjust element display order
   • Northeast-three-province animation analysis and hotspot-region production
   • The Northeast-three-province initial-animation production process
   • Jing-Jin class 02 — making 3D text for landmarks
   • Jing-Jin class 04 — comprehensive analysis of the time-interval animation adjustment issue
   • Jing-Jin-ying 03 — camera planning for map animation
   • Jing-Jin-ying 06 — making semi-transparent black-background commentary subtitles
   • Jing-Jin-ying 07 — format choice and Douyin/Kuaishou horizontal/vertical video
   • Jing-Jin-lian 05 — map-animation production demo
4. Shape-morph animation
   • Shape-morph animation 01 — drawing the old map
   • Shape-morph animation 02 — triangle morphing to quadrilateral
   • Shape-morph animation 03 — quadrilateral morphing to pentagon
   • Shape-morph animation 05 — making continuous shape-morph animation
5. Advanced animation techniques
   • 01 region color-block drawing and building-cube creation
   • 02 making flags match national area
   • 01 adding custom text shapes
   • 02 the stacking order of shapes
   • 05 01 landmark attribute settings and inter-location animation
   • 05 02 how to modify a flag landmark's anchor point
   • 06 adding paths and planning camera-motion routes
   • 07 01 region color-block drawing and building-cube creation
   • 07 02 the stacking order of shapes
6. Hands-on cases
   • Making self-drive/backcountry crossing simulation animation
   • Acquiring and integrating self-drive routes
   • Building-growth simulation animation
   • Boring through the earth to find the antipodal point
   • How to fix a plane circling in the air
   • Adding and modifying the plane model
   • Compositing the flight-route animation
7. Q&A
   • What to do when problems arise in extrapolation-based production
   • Map-element display-animation analysis — PR production
   • Highlighted region — production method
8. Special techniques
   • Historical administrative-boundary change animation
   • Magic-sky production technique 5
   • How to do text-to-speech commentary
   • The flight-simulation system in Google Earth
   • Saving time and effort — batch-replacing text in PSD templates
   • ArcGIS application series
     • How to convert SHP to KML
     • How to convert KML to SHP
     • Extracting a single route from multi-elements, and merging segmented routes
     • Reversing a path's start point
9. Bonus lessons
   • Web program: route animation under a fixed camera
   • Flight-route simulation animation — notes
   • Flight-route simulation animation — main production steps
   • Historical administrative-boundary change animation