10,000-subscriber Special - How to Make Map Animations!

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Congrats on 10K Ollie!

[@Austerlitz-xj7fm]

+EmperorTigerstar Could you make Paraguayan War: Every Day?

[@voytek5550]

Congrats on 10K Ollie!

[@azouitinesaad3856]

CAN YOU HELP ME TO SHARE MY FIRST VIDEO

[@mcveigh1579]

EMPEROR SHREYANSHU I'm American. Hello. I like Indians. Your country needs more love.

[@mcveigh1579]

Evadra Nuvvu oh. I accidentally replied there.

[@alaaabdelsalam5367]

Wow, I see how much effort it takes to make these Map Animations especially the History of the world vid. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos. :D

[@alaaabdelsalam5367]

+Alaa Abdelsalam Oh and Congratulations on the 10k subs!

[@OllieBye]

You probably have questions about certain parts of this. Feel free to ask here :)

[@jestem0idenachama]

Pliss Chechen War :)

[@OllieBye]

+President John Henry Eden It should be on your computer already, unless you.re using a Mac. Is that the case?

[@kingdomheartsandpoke]

+Ollie Bye (History) wait so you play league ;)

[@andreasbusse5657]

How long does it take you to make a video? (Approximately)

[@shakybill3]

+Ollie Bye (History) I'm only commenting here for notifications :3

[@Toys4YouJucariiPentruTine]

Nice clip! Was looking for a tutorial to show how to animate a route on the map but found u instead ...liked and subscribed. Cheers!

[@RohitRaj-wz7xc]

I was also searching for that

[@specialpizzadelivery1107]

Me too

[@maap6927]

Haha me too!!! thanks for share method to help me build my channel

[@AntoniWiechec]

Thats cool!

[@AudioScenes]

There are some webapps that allow you to make route maps. Perhaps these can be captured and are useful for some uses. 🤔

[@alidz2588]

This is not easy. I appreciate what you're doing

[@tahsin6743]

Yes

[@aaronTGP_3756]

I'd say the hardest part is research. The rest is simply time consuming. VERY time consuming.

[@Mythical.History]

@@aaronTGP_3756 Facts

[@izzomapping7430]

So. Yeah. One year ago, I watched one map video about the history of the world. That video led me to a Future Of Europe's video. I started to watch a lot of KZbin videos, encountering educational channels like Numberphile and VSauce. This led to my knowledge in English, geography, science, and general knowledge duplicated in one year. I now know what to do when grown up, and this has inspired me to do so many things that I'm proud of. The original video I saw was probably not of yours, but I wanted to say thank you. This kind of video has radically changed my life and led it to a better place. Thank Ollie, thanks KZbin.

[@goldenbough56]

you already have mapping in your name i want to see one of your videos and i'm also working on video since animated mapping is cool and satisfying historic and fun and I also really am into history ww2 ww1 etc.

[@done2thedeadguy349]

this is what internet is for

[@babluthakur8233]

@Evop Fx i saw some vids of reallifelore and data channels and drew durnil

[@stealtho]

average history/military fanatic child

[@Stjepko15]

same here lol

[@galacticpenguintv6752]

Congratulation on reaching 10k subs Ollie, you earned it!

[@samsid3701]

Deserved* ?

[@jayleung7461]

@@samsid3701 ?

[@samsid3701]

@@jayleung7461 Nevermind nigga jfc

[@koyekmegi271]

Galactiic

[@jaxon_1096]

It must have taken you ages to do History of the World

[@gottkaisersliver]

1 month

[@mehdirashidi9254]

SupremeSliver ye because he worked when he had time

[@notanythinganymore]

@@mehdirashidi9254 he actually collabed with other person to do the project but still it took a hell a long time.

[@markhenley3097]

He had a bunch of other people who helped him and gave information.

[@maap6927]

Yes, I did one, it spend lot of time.... so i appreciate to him 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@PeterRidilla1001]

Congratulations to this awesome number!

[@rampantmutt9119]

2:16 this part doesn't work. I just end up creating large black marks on the image using the eraser.

[@tymonte3694]

Got the same problem :/

[@jubileu9813]

I also have the same problem

[@mansourkabbani3951]

me too! i can only make a dark square in the map and in cant do anything else

[@mansourkabbani3951]

I think i know whats the problem! its the map we downloaded it! if you try and use paintbucket and just try to color any area in the map you will understand how this works. next time we need to download a low resaltion map and not one from wiki

[@mansourkabbani3951]

But it is also easier to paint it

[@RedircSiuol]

Congrats on 10k Ollie! I might have to give this a try now; as someone who loves history and maps this looks like a lot of fun!

[@GamerChip...]

same

[@geronmapping]

Wow, nice work, Ollie!

[@emperorofholyrome5403]

I am now one step closer to achieving one of my dreams, now I just need a windows computer. Thank you so much Ollie,

[@OnlyOneHunnids]

What do you use now?

[@kratant_]

you are my favourite youtube creator

[@fokus_s]

2:19 in this part you can use paintbucket too

[@hyvenia6157]

This was very interesting to see! It's pretty sweet how you can make KZbin video's with programs that come free with the computer. Keep up the good work! :D

[@stscallop3254]

the second song gives me so much nostalgia playing the game where you eat stuff and you grow

[@munastronaut8147]

tasty planet

[@cloudfa1177]

This is the single most helpful video that exists on the internet. It's been hours of searching... thank you so much!

[@teammaker1443]

at 2:19, how do you trace the borders?

[@hiswilbert]

Pro tip Basically retrace it :))

[@dvsbreitmann4914]

Did you find out?

[@thomasshaughnessy9023]

Set both colours to black and hold right click while going over it

[@nikhilwaghmode8117]

@@thomasshaughnessy9023 it doesn't work

[@robamamapping3698]

@@nikhilwaghmode8117 not both colour 2should be black and colour 1 should be the colour of line

[@AnonymousShortWatcher]

Congrats on 500K ET!

[@jeidikei]

Tip: while re-tracing the borders using the eraser tool, you can increase the size of the eraser by using ctrl + numpad +, and reversly decrease the size with ctrl + numpad - Also I am very late, you make great videos.

[@powerofediting1657]

Hi! So, I’m having some trouble with that part. I’m pretty sure I did everything in the video, I put the rectangles in, I traced the borders with a pencil, and then I put two more rectangles over it. However, some weird things were happening with the colors, I.e. the second color wouldn’t always change when I click on a different color. Also, when I tried to use the eraser to bring out the borders, it would work. Nothing happened when I right clicked a and dragged the mouse. Am I doing something wrong, or is it the computer’s fault? I’m using windows 10 btw

[@jeidikei]

@@powerofediting1657 If I am correct, the second colour box is kinda buggy and sometimes to change it to another colour you have saved you need to click a random colour THEN the one you want. And the tracing only works if you have just pasted the images in, so if the tracing isnt working CTRL+A select the whole page, CTRL+C copy it, then make a new document and CTRL+V Paste it and try then.

[@powerofediting1657]

Oh I see! I had downloaded the image instead of copying it. I’ll copy and paste as soon as I can! Thanks for the help, and thanks for responding so quickly!

[@dylanbrownie]

Congratulations on 10,000 subs. This really helped me find a new way of making maps. Thank you.

[@andreasbusse5657]

How long does it take you to make a video (approximately)?

[@OllieBye]

+Andreas Busse A week usually, but two weeks for wars.

[@blackcarmafia]

+Ollie Bye (History) seems like a ton of work

[@OllieBye]

blackcarmafia It is, yes, but I enjoy it.

[@gottkaisersliver]

Well how many hours everyday?

[@historicallyAL03]

@@OllieBye That explains why its taking me so long.

[@windows7_8010]

Thanks you. This really help me so much!

[@sgtlebleanc]

2:14 How to do it on the black stuff eraser, cuz in win7 paint l can t do that, please help me!

[@blakebabcock8890]

Me too!

[@tiberiusG]

ollie bye explained it a few comments down actually. it must be done in an untitled document for some reason. so copy what you have by pressing CTRL+A then CTRL+C, open a new document without naming it and press CTRL+V. it should work.

[@alejndraalmirowitsch4897]

congrats . u deserve more than 10k honestly

[@veronanotges6290]

Jetzt hat er mehr als 100.000 ;)

[@denzal689]

1:57 It won't let me do that... I hold right click, when when I try to left click to trace over the boarders, it freezes and does nothing. I tried it on both untitled and an edited file...

[@OllieBye]

What do you have in "Color 1" and "Color 2"?

[@denzal689]

Both are black

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

Thanks for doing so much work for us! S2 Really, it's awesome pal!

[@eloel108]

I can't do the retracing part. It won't let me! I've done exactly as you said.

[@SapeHallward]

i have the same problem

[@josephstalin732]

@@Fletcher280 I know your post was made 2 years ago, but it just helped me. Thank you!

[@TexasKosmonawt]

Congratulations for reaching 10,000+ subscribers! You deserved it!

[@husselbruss5124]

When you are changing the year, how do you "Edit" it for the next slide? In Paint you can't re-edit the text. You have to just create a new text thing. Which leads to the year text moving around quite alot in the actual video.

[@edenli6421]

make a dot to click on every time for a date change

[@damnson6151]

Set color 1 and 2 with the color of ur date box. Select the square tool with solid color selected in fill option. Now make a square over the date and rewritethe new date.

[@hessastutzman9484]

@@damnson6151 That method dosnt work

[@damnson6151]

@@hessastutzman9484 Wait what? It does though...I just make a grey square (as my date box was grey) with Fill option (like he chose Marker, I choose fill) as grey and draw square over the date

[@hessastutzman9484]

@@damnson6151 oh, sorry i set it to paint brush by accident.

[@jamiespiteri2094]

it's incredible how you spend so much time for our entertainment and education. a big congratulations

[@christmasparasite8767]

Thanks Ollie. On Windows Movie Maker, how long do you set for a slide if you were making an every day video?

[@OllieBye]

+Christmas Parasite 0.13 seconds. This is quite short, though, it only works because I include hundreds of slides. Most people settle for 0.3 seconds or longer.

[@christmasparasite8767]

Ollie Bye Thanks! Time to work on that Byzantium video.

[@MrOwnerandPwner]

Congrats on the 10K subs, you really deserve it.

[@daiamondorobotto9812]

The Timelines of World History: Every Year

[@FinnMapper]

Nice one! And congratulations for 10K subs!

[@deldarel]

Honestly, why don't you use paint.net from the start? Layers would save you a lot of time with the eraser.

[@deldarel]

Worldwide mapping studios I mean the program. Why would I not mean the program? He even says he uses the program in the video itself, but that he starts off with paint. I want to know why.

[@abandoned9875]

Deldarel Because it's easy and it's simple to use MS Paint and challenging yourself is a good thing!

[@nano_ranger]

Dude congrats on the 10k mark

[@plateofcereal2818]

7 hours of non-stop trying to figure this out for nothing lol (this isnt hate i just cant figure it out lol)

[@Kiyazama-]

Congrats Ollie!

[@fdYkn]

Wouldn`t it enormously easier to make maps in bettersoftware like Adobe Illustrator, where you have layers?

[@OllieBye]

+fdYkn I prefer to use Paint. Most of the slides I make don't have any changes other than the year (such is the nature of "every year" videos), so I'm not editing borders most of the time.

[@manetho5134]

Ollie Bye so you create hundreds of slides where the only change is the date? How do you do it, I'd assume that you paste the picture in ms paint, erase the date and write the next one and repeat the cycle, is that what you do? Or is there an easier way

[@LunaESC1945]

MS Paint does not have an easier way nor Paint.net. It would be easier if you could just edit the text instead of deleting it and writing the new date, Because it takes ours for even to get to 50 frames.

[@jakovvodanovic9165]

This is a hell of a job, you really must love this!

[@AB-eq9mm]

elaborate on how to research.

[@OllieBye]

+* * Well did you have one specific topic in mind?

[@AB-eq9mm]

How often are wikipedia and the encyclopedia Britannica inadequate and what other sources would you recommend.

[@galacticpenguintv6752]

I like to use historical atlases.

[@OllieBye]

* * They're usually fine for me. The only time I really need to use other sources is for wars, but they aren't that hard to find either. There are a lot of websites that cover individual campaigns for wars - I can give you some examples if you wish.

[@TheZod00]

+Ollie Bye (History) Let's say if your doing an every year of the roman empire. Then how are you able to find exactly what territory they got or lost every year? It can't just be you searching up every single year and being able to find maps on that specific year can it?

[@TheFilipinoMapper1]

Oh my god I’ve been looking for this and congrats on 10k

[@ollieb_3805]

This is already bad you use paint.. and bandicam.....

[@leonkurz9210]

you mean he uses MS paint cause Paint.net is muuuch better then this ......

[@abandoned9875]

Eblag City Ball Poland You do know challenging yourself is a good thing!

[@ECloudDog]

Yeah and it's not like you can do any better. He makes very high quality videos, so if Paint is one of the reasons behind these great videos then Paint has to be a good tool. And if he uses Bandicam so what? This is probably one of the very few videos he's done with a screen recorder, so wtf do you expect?

[@what8948]

Get off weirdo

[@ronizuckerman7785]

Congratz on 10,000! Besides, You used music from my favorite game!

[@WombatSteve]

Tasty Planet OST is the last thing I expected to hear anywhere other than Tasty Planet

[@tlcheesecakes9002]

10,000?! Already? Wow, Keep up the good work!

[@talinite5916]

YOU DO NOT FREAKIN REALIZE HOW LONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING HOW TO ADD THE BLUR IN EFFECT TO MY MAPS!!!! THANKS YOUUUUUUUU!! I already subbed because of the Napoleon vid(I need a reference for my alternate history of Napoleon), so I wish I could sub again! XD Thanks you!!!

[@OllieBye]

+TechFalcon Thanks for subscribing, glad I could help :)

[@talinite5916]

+Ollie Bye (History) No problem! You, Suomi, Tigerstar, and many other quality mappers deserve to have 1000's more subs! When I started mapping I noticed how much work you guys put into these, especially animation like mapping. Keep up the good work!

[@MuricaMapperdankmemes]

Awesome job! Congrats too!

[@emappingvb4123]

This video aged suprisingly well. Used it to make my own map videos.

[@masterm3487]

wow it seems like just yesterday I subed and you had 6k subs, congrats on 10k dude!

[@explorewithmani5243]

Thanks bro it will help me alot. BTW congrats on 10k suns.

[@comradefroggo6226]

Good job Ollie !

[@doliague2590]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@geocritic3577]

Nice wallpaper

[@Skirbiy]

I appreciate what you are doing, I see that this is not easy.

[@mrthyme7100]

wow you work hard on your videos thats a long process... thanks for letting us know how you make your cool map animations!

[@aquaacorn8519]

Thanks dude. Even if the video is 6 Years old, it's useful for me, by making maps for my Airsoft land revolution. You are a legend, thanks again!

[@metaxistmapper1987]

Nice , congratz ! +Ollie Bye

[@TheBMGGaming4182]

If you guys are on Android and wanted to make this animated history maps, try Sony Sketch. Currently, I'm making the History of Poland: Every Year on Sony Sketch by researching images of their respectively territories.

[@barry5784]

Hey u subbed also du know how Eastory has thoughs sick divisions boxses how do u make them?

[@TheBMGGaming4182]

@@barry5784 Huh?

[@adryanhdmappinganimationpr9645]

congratz m8 on 10 084 subs

[@FriscoDojenia]

This is the video that taught me how to map, thanks Ollie Bye!

[@Neancit]

Wow this looks laborious. If you didn't enjoy the prcess, I would feel bad. Also that is a feature I never knew existed in paint, so thank you for showing this to us. Now, although this may not useful most of the time, I would strongly suggest looking into segmentation techniques. There should be something in there that could speed up the process of drawing over the edges of the map. Then again I know from experience that just drawing over lines using simple tools without having to worry about any kind of technicalities can be quite pleasant. Anyhow keep up the good work, and congratulations on your milestone. I have enjoyed every video you've made so far.

[@OllieBye]

+Neelien It wouldn't speed things up as much as you think - I usually make "every year" videos, meaning that most of slides slides exhibit no change other than the date.

[@Neancit]

+Ollie Bye (History) Sorry I may not have been very clear. I realise that this would only speed up the initial "drawing" of the map. Looking at the way you evolve the map over different frames, this happens through relatively small changes and high level methods would probably slow you down more so than anything else. (This is also probably why you prefer paint to gimp) I'm also a programming oriented person, so scripting this would probably my way to do something like this, but that in itself can be quite the hassle. I'm pretty bad at expressing myself sometimes. Also, thanks again for all the videos.

[@izzomapping7430]

So nice... If you had done this one day before, it would've been a super birthday present...

[@TheFilipinoMapper1]

CONGRATS ON 320 AXTUALLY

[@geographystudios606]

Thanks for this tutorial, it helped a lot with my first mapping animations, and without it I might have never been able to start my KZbin channel

[@CadetGriffin]

I remember the songs from Tasty Planet! :D PS. I used to have 'cracked' versions of both games (but that was years ago when I thought that paying for intangible interactivities was ridiculous)

[@drex6347]

A tip: You can enlarge the rubber tool pressing the "+" key. You'll save time when remaking the borders.

[@historycenter4011]

you historical mappers work very hard

[@mcveigh1579]

Wow. You used windows movie maker to make this? Good job bro!

[@godofgold8084]

2:05 WTF, II used MS Paint for years, this guy showed me something new

[@darknesssword2358]

I love Your videos Tigerstar I'm a huge fan

[@mcveigh1579]

Darkness Sword wrong person. This is Ollie bye.

[@lolxdroflmao431]

Im freaking dying lmao😂😂

[@adlinevemma]

Thank you so much of tips:)

[@kristinakris6892]

Dude thank you alot of my map videos failed because i didnt know how to actually get borders on the right place thanks man u got a sub from me

[@gerrenowen2327]

i prefer to Ion's one than Ollie's one to be honest, but, this is great ! :) Thx for the video

[@saytadz1140]

I like ur videos So Much!

[@proerrors4969]

Tysm!!!! 😃

[@lukaszklej7390]

Cong8s ollie ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@martinmalik7946]

tasty planet !YAY!

[@wurttmapper2200]

Yumm... Yom, yom... Ooh, Woopa! Total eaten: 631 Gold medal

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

thx for this video, helps a lot.. put it on my favs 😊

[@thanassis2274]

Thenk you so much ... That was a great video and it helped me a lot .... 👌👌👌

[@polish-american]

Godverdammt! Ollie you have grown so much since this vid! 300K incoming very soon!

[@billcipher9939]

*mouthwater comes out of mouth while watching*

[@militarian9759]

I want to start making videos of these timelines, this helped a lot thank you!

[@FireBlade6976]

nice work

[@SuperGibaLogan]

that music is from club penguin

[@vincentbj84]

Good job Ollie Bye !!!

[@kactus9935]

how can i change the date in the frames without it looking weird?

[@earthc]

Tip: use Ctrl+'plus' key in the numeric keyboard to increase the size of the eraser (passing the size limit on "Size")

[@Kolsedy]

I can't erase it it just keep getting black lines

[@mrusenvagajiq]

Good tutorial it helped me alot

[@officialwilwilstudios]

U deserve a SUB!

[@abhyudaykrishna5757]

what did u do at 2:19

[@scarofunt]

hold the right-click, not left-click

[@blanba4502]

you can right click with the bucket on the second rectangle phase thingy to get the whole line

[@historicallyAL03]

I've been making a map on Every Battle Japan fought in WW2 (since September 1 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Doing a map video of Japan's conquests in the pacific since 1870 is too much for me) and it took me hours so far.

[@BarelyInfected]

Thanks for this tutorial, I usually create route animations. Do you have any suggestions for creating routes on a map?

[@dictorialmapper1855]

I am halfway with my project. Thank you.

[@OllieBye]

Sounds good. Let me know when you finish :)

[@KirbyComicsVids]

thanks a lot for this, I'm coincidentally in the process of making one right now :D

[@OllieBye]

+KirbyComicsVids Good luck!

[@KirbyComicsVids]

+Ollie Bye (History) thanks man C:

[@tutorialforyou6877]

Hey Ollie Bye your tutorial was amazing but I'am facing problem about information Can you tell me how to get information about territorial changes and how much area an Empire conquered in an battle plzz help me