Create Branching Animated ARROWS ↩️ Adobe After Effects 2024

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Learn more about the upcoming GEOlayers Course - www.boonelovesvideo.com/geolayers-3-new-course 0:50 Getting Started 1:10 Draw the Arrow Paths 3:18 Trace the Arrow Paths 5:28 Create the Arrowheads 7:50 Animate the Arrow Paths 10:18 Change the Width of Each Arrow 11:30 How to Curve the Edges 13:30 Bring Arrow into GEOlayers 3 14:28 Make the Arrow Pop with a Drop Shadow 15:50 Add a Stroke Layer Style 16:33 How to Move the Arrows 18:32 The Final Animation

[@ReadyMack-g]

did this in the 90s in 3dsmax... you could argue this is easier but its just a thing(tribal wars west Africa)

[@Plaprad]

Literally in the planning for a WW2 animation that this is perfect for. Thanks man.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Awesome happy to hear that!

[@SketchDiary_Official]

Thankyou Sir i have learned alot from here ❤

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@toddlawrimore3577]

Good one. Thank you. The matte-choker effect is like a little treasure that can be used in the oddest places.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Absolutely!

[@robboone4367]

As always, one of your biggest fans!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Love you pops!

[@AyushArya_Catalyst]

Hey Boone, I've been following your tutorials on GeoLayers and have found them extremely helpful. I'm currently working on a project where I need to add an ocean from one satellite imagery into a different one within GeoLayers. I’m struggling a bit with how to blend and composite the ocean seamlessly into the new imagery while maintaining accuracy and realism. Could you possibly create a tutorial covering this technique? I’m sure it would be valuable for others too who are looking to improve their map animation skills in GeoLayers. Thanks for all the great content, and I appreciate your time!

[@ekanshsharma_1]

ohh

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hello! Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed this is a tough part of the workflow, as there are so many options. GEOlayers comes with the Natural Earth watermask comp, but the edges don't give great detail for large scale maps. Depending on your zoom level, you could create mattes for small scale and large scale. You could use open street map data for the large scale situations (zoomed in) to get more detail, and then the Natural Earth watermask comp for small scale. It's a bit complicated when you introduce long zooms into your project. If you have maptiler, it solves this problem. I'll add a video to my to do list!

[@KarimMustansir]

Thank you Boone. Greetings from Pakistan

[@BooneLovesVideo]

What's up Pakistan! Love you all.

[@lukinnni]

Cool tutorial! I came to a similar pipeline when creating arrows. To make the effect even cooler I would add a Taper modifier to the main lines of the arrows.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

For real! I was kicking myself after I finished the tutorial and started making the thumbnail that I didn't taper. It would look so much better. :)

[@warmaps78]

Thanks for the guide!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You bet!

[@Monifans]

the absolute goat!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks 🐐

[@vadimkasse]

Excellent!! Thank you ❤

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Welcome!

[@CreativityForYou]

Brilliant!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@Debubbleization]

at 6:55 I was shortly worried you wouldnt arrange the layers in the same way 😮 like a psycho but luckily you came to senses! apart from that, thanks so mich for this tutorial!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

🤣🤣

[@burskyozbekov]

That choker trick!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Choker for the win. Another cool trick is to place the arrowheads above the adjustment layer, which will give you super sharp arrowheads and then you can keep the curves of the path.

[@thecapital2693]

Hi boone! If we want to reverse the paths of the layer and arrows to converge on the single line instead of it spreading out like branches, what should be done? I have reversed the path direction of all the shape layers but the trace path does not seem to have a reverse option.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Great question! If you've already got it rigged up and you want to switch directions, it's a few steps. First, time reverse the keyframes of Null. Then parent the Start parameter of the trim path animator to the progress of the Null, and remove End. Then I'm assuming you just rotate the arrowhead. Give that a try!

[@NoahBloomberg]

How do I "Covert the Bezier Handle" to fix the weird rotation at the end of the path.

[@adin7065]

Hello!Can I ask which specs do you have for smooth working with Geo layers, because i have 32gb of ram, ryzen 9590x and gtx 1650 4gb, and everyday after 2 hours of editing i have to start over again because my pc is dying, geolayers is bugging and sometimes map doesn't load on some frames and sometimes my quality sucks so i can't fix it. Can you answer me pleasee because im going crazy. Thanks

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hello! I have an ASUS Zenbook Pro duo laptop. You have to focus on changing the parameters of After Effects and GEOlayers to get it to function smoothly. Do things like clear your cache, turn down the preview frame rate and resolution, etc.

[@Mr-nobody79845]

Please answer my question, I couldn't find a solution anywhere When I 'Pre-Compose' the two separate maps I drew with GEOlayers 3, the maps I drew disappear. I'm waiting for your help

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hello! You're precomposing two mapcomps? You can't really precompose in GEOlayers as normal. Everything is attached across precomps, so you break those connections. You have to create mapcomps and then draw features inside of them. Or use the precomp script in the GEOlayers panel, which I'm pretty sure only works on individual shape layers.

[@abdullahelmlegy7889]

good , but i have aproblem when i start finaliz in geolayer some times it doesn't start finaliz thanks in advanced

[@BooneLovesVideo]

It doesn't start to finalize in advance? What does this mean? If you go into the mapcomp settings you can clear the cache and refinalize.

[@mr.critic]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@BooneLovesVideo]

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[@Eagle._Rayan]

can you help me? i have a slight issue and i've spent ages trying to fix it! please help me out

[@BooneLovesVideo]

What's the issue?

[@Barisyucer]

Hey Boone, First of all, thank you for directing me to the first tutorials. I have a question that I think only you would know the answer to. I'm trying to prepare a map of the civil war in Syria, but the administrative boundaries I can find in geolayers do not match the current situation in the civil war. So I guess I need to draw my own boundaries for where the parties in the civil war won/lost. Do you know how I can do this?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah, there's actually a few different ways that you can do this. You might be able to find the actual data sets somewhere. There's a website called Institute for the Study of War and they will give out geospatial data files to members of the press. But they also do reports where they give out PDF maps, and you could always manually trace those maps as well. www.understandingwar.org/