Rings of Power Map Motion Graphics in Apple Motion!

With Rings of Power out on Amazon, I thought it would be fun to try and recreate the iconic map flying sequence from the Lord of the Rings!
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[@TheFinalCutBro]

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[@ishaan9671]

please can you make a video regarding how can you do animation of cartoons in apple motion. There is a channel called Kurzgesagt in a nutshell and they use After Effects for that. So pleasw can you make video showing how to make animated videos like theirs but in apple motion

[@kev_G]

Vey cool! That framing Behavior is so sweet! I think I would still end up doing a custom path to get a larger sweep between locations but for getting something really quickly it's so nice! Will definitely be playing with it.

[@Itsbeaucoup]

youre the only person i see doing apple motion tutorials. Can you do a tutorial on motion covert art spotify canvas/youtube visualizers?

[@APB9002]

check Simon Ubsdell, he does a lot of Motion tutorials

[@SWExplore]

Simply amazing, Dylan! I finally know enough about Apple Motion to successfully follow along this tutorial and create my own map animation. Terrific!!! Thank you!

[@francuccino]

Thanks to you and others I started to use Motion. Can't believe all the cool stuff I have been missing. I remember getting Motion when it first came out and I felt like I wasted my money because I never used it. But now, WOW, I'm so glad that I have it.😊😊😊

[@moonrakerdesign]

Used this tutorial to make our latest video intro. We knew nothing about FCPX or Motion a few months ago and with your help have been leveling up! Appreciate you sharing you knowledge and skills in this area!

[@_tyolsen]

Dylan, I just want to say thank you for everything you do to help us. Seriously. I found you through Dusty's podcast and I'm so glad I did. I have come back to your channel over and over to learn skills for my own content and I really appreciate it. Keep up the great work!

[@Senthiil]

Thanks a lot Dylan, it's always a pleasure to learn new things in Apple Motion from your videos.

[@DrCaptainMorgan]

Thanks Final Motion Bro! I didn't know about drawing rectangle targets for the Framing Behavior Target until this video.

[@HabaneroStudios]

Awesome. This is so great. Fantastic way of explaining, straight to the point. You really enjoy explaining things, Dylan. Thank you very much.

[@venyason6816]

Just what I needed, was looking for after effect tutorial but this method looks so easy to do. Thank you!

[@SaftRAD]

Great, great, great! Thank you for this tutorial! I have already used this several times in my videos!

[@Snaggums]

Concise and useful information, as always. Much appreciated!

[@GwilymJames]

Love it. Would be cool if one could add topographical info like 3D mountains. Not sure if such a distort effect is possible in Motion.

[@BecomeUseful]

This was a great tutorial. Your content, pacing and presentation are really amazing. Thanks for making such great content.

[@JandeBloois1952]

Great tutorial, I learned a few things again, like the dept-of-field adjustment. Wonderful, thanks!

[@doingnothingatwork]

This tutorial is really great!

[@dglatz01]

OK this is super, Bro! You have single-handedly inspired me to try to learn Apple Motion. I’ve always wondered how this kind of effect was done. Now I’m going to try it. Thanks!

[@BrickBatDad]

wow.. such at well done tutorial.. so good!

[@Frights666]

Awesome guide! Thanks so much for keeping this simple and to the point! 💀

[@safetyhomeloans950]

please continue producing videos for Apple Motion, thanks Dylan.

[@user-pb9dv8eu8z]

Thanks you so much!

[@jarkendal]

Amazing video, thanks!!!

[@KevinAllgaier]

Ok, that's a GREAT tutorial!

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Awesome & Thanks :)

[@hakimbenchabane]

Very nice and inspiring content !!

[@idavid2619]

Amazing!

[@ShapeofLight_PiotrStefaniak]

amazing, thank you Dylan!

[@michaelch5060]

This is some really cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.

[@bricksuntold]

Thank you! This is definetely something that I will try! You went little fast but I will rewatch and pause video every now and then.

[@tricarico672]

Great tutorial! Super useful, thanks!

[@hughan00]

Your videos are really excellent, Dylan! Thank you so much. I know you're the Final Cut Bro 😀… but I would really love to see as many Motion videos as possible!!! In any case, keep your content coming - bravo!

[@spencersmith312]

Thank you. This video was awesome. I appreciate your work.

[@TheMentalHealthToolbox]

Super cool! Thanks🤗🙏👏👏

[@IainAnderson]

Great tutorial, exactly the technique I've been using on a documentary recently. 👍

[@tomralin]

Amazing ! Try it the first time and it works well with a map of my hometown in the middle age ;)))

[@brucekennedy5274]

Love it. Did something similar in AE last year - looked great but took a bit of trial and error. This seems a WAY nicer workflow. Time to bust out Motion.. aw Motion, how I’ve missed ya!

[@weeklyfascination]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I just animated a simple opening sequence that gives directions to go somewhere by train. No Orcs were harmed in making this animation.

[@chadify007]

Shoot, I just realized my issue is I haven’t been duplicating the camera animator. Since I was only using one with multiple framing animations, motion was doing all sorta of weird things. I also tried to make orient to current work, but you’re definitely right, orient to final is much better. Was having all sorts of weird glitches driving me insane haha. Wow, I must say your channel is a goldmine. Without you I would’ve been screwed (not enough motion stuff out there!)

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Thanks for this video ! I didn't really know what Motion was for and never opened it on my Mac. 5 hours later and I have a finished project to impress my boss with on Monday. ☺👍

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Tell your boss you deserve a raise!

[@willyvision]

killin it boss

[@JandeBloois1952]

It is nice to see, that if you place a 3D object on the map, like the 'rock', it just follows the perspective of the map, without having to do something about it! My next step will be making an animated line, which follows one of the rivers on the map. (well....almost!)

[@StuartHetzler]

You need more subs, man. You are just the best.

[@ishaan9671]

please can you make a video regarding how can you do animation of cartoons in apple motion. There is a channel called Kurzgesagt in a nutshell and they use After Effects for that. So pleasw can you make video showing how to make animated videos like theirs but in apple motion

[@arshmaheshwari1380]

I want to see the same!!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

They do some pretty incredible animation! I’ll be honest though, that’s just something I don’t know how to do. You’re going to want to watch some animation tutorial channels to learn how to do what they do. I’m not sure how much of it is possible in Motion.

[@ishaan9671]

@hill north ikr But kurzgesagt in a nutshell they use After Effects for that. That just shows how apple motion is a little outdated in the number of features as compared to after effects and fusion.

[@ishaan9671]

Fusion takes it on an whole other level. Its too over the top for 2d animation like how i was saying

[@ishaan9671]

@hill north Even i use davinci resolve its free and you have to many features to count. Its just i find fusion very confusing for a normal average video editor or a vfx artist. But if you get the hang of it then you can do wonders with it

[@ishaan9671]

hi bro love your work

[@BraxtonHolley]

THanks Dylan

[@user-gf2ij5fu2t]

Always impressive, Dylan Bates

[@inknpaintCW]

This is great! I was watching to see how you addressed all the elements. Super efficient and effective! Is there a way to add specific bump or texture to the image to give it a dry parchment feel? I would normally bring the image into 3D apps and animate the camera, it's focal point and DOF just to give me the flexibility with rendering textures but it would be great if I can get the same effect in Motion. As usual, great job!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

I tried to get a bump map going on the map, but I was having trouble! I just don’t think Motion is cut out to do that. You probably could export a version of the map with actual displacement and import that to Motion though! (haven’t tried that)

[@AISLERTV]

Great tutorial bro . Can you also make a tutorial on how to make a magnifying glass effect in motion and use it in fcp? thanks.

[@bwilesuk]

Wish I'd known how to use Framing a couple of months ago - I ended up animating a map with just keyframes!

[@jncolligan1]

This is such a great tutorial. I’ve been doing this work in Google Earth Studio, but wanted to do the same thing on historical maps. So Thanks for making this possible! That said… for your amusement… I did this tutorial a dozen times before I got it to work… I kept putting that framing and position elements in sequential order in the layers panel.. but putting ‘one’ above ‘two’ makes the second movement not work! Researching motion to better understand why the timeline behaves that way :) I’m a total motion noooob!

[@hhhh6707]

Thank you for the video! but hey how did you rotate the background smoothly?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

I used mCamRig in FCP and put it on a consistent rotation for the duration of the video!

[@reginayanito9143]

Hello Dylan, thanks for an awesome video! I have been playing with these concepts and was feeling pretty good about it until today. My framing and ramps are appearing above the timeline, in the canvas space but not in the timeline. How do I fix this? Thank you for putting out great content!

[@dominikdelinic9951]

Is there a "import as composition" option in motion like in after effects? I work with a very big map and want to do some adjustments to this map before placing it inside a full HD Camera view. Thanks, great video love this, was looking for a video like that!

[@gorukun9087]

Hi dylan please make video on how to make video with lyrics, word should come one by one with writhem not the whole sentences at a time. Suppose singer say one word in 1 second, then that word should be on screen for 1 second, after then next word should come, and also please animate the text so people listening to it do not get bored..

[@abdu_chouaib]

Is it possible to do a lesson on recording audio with music, such as documentaries, please?in Adobe audition if you have or in fcpx🙏

[@fallout187]

Amazing tutorial but could you do one modifying the different camera angles? I saw you moving down the x axis but I've been trying to get 360 spins and other angles but the map just keeps flipping in all different directions. I can't seem to control the camera or the map like I would will google earth. Thanks for all the tutorials and looking forward to your next post.

[@ef108]

Hey Dylan, cool tutorial - thank you! But I think in step 2 and 3 while rotating the camera on the x axis you lost the red background, right? Is there a way to fix this?

[@SnoopyDoofie]

Is it possible to have an animated line follow the camera path as it moves from one location to another? For instance, if I'm narrating something that tells how someone flew from location A to location B to location C and the map moves to each of the locations, it would be nice to also show a line that begins at location A and gradually grows in length as it moves to each of the locations, making it more obvious what the path was when flying. Is this possible to do?

[@nohaelbaroudy]

Hello Dylan. I love your motion tutorials. Can you maybe make a tutorial on how to incorporate voice over in a motion clip? I know how to add audio but that’s it, I can’t trim/add a gap in a sentence or shorten it, etc. I hope this makes sense.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Totally makes sense! So Motion is just not designed for audio very well. Basically all you can do is trim by using I and O for in and out points. But you can’t trim something down in the middle like you would in Final Cut Pro, unless you create multiple layers of the same audio file. Trim it down on each layer, and slide them closer together on the timeline. So I would recommend doing all your audio beforehand in something like FCP, and then import when you’re ready into Motion.

[@nohaelbaroudy]

@@TheFinalCutBro thanks a lot. at least now I know I’m not missing anything in motion’s audio department 🙈

[@UjyaloGyan]

After effect and apple motion which is the best one ??

[@user-jk2um5sr2p]

Hello! Is it possible to make this in final cut? maybe you know some plugin or some tutorial? Thank you! 😍

[@alexanderkrasnovsky]

Need a section - repeat animation from after effects ) is it possible to animate an illustration from an Illustrator in Motion?

[@Al-ImprovEd2022]

You can achieve the movements without drawing the squares right? Trying to determine if they’re necessary. Great tut.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Yes you definitely can! But the squares make it the easiest to animate the camera. Keyframes can be an absolute pain, especially in 3D space. You can also use circles, or really anything you like. But the squares were easiest for me.

[@Al-ImprovEd2022]

@@TheFinalCutBro thanks

[@dylanjohndickerson]

So dope brotha! Have you been watching the Rings of Power? 🔥

[@TheFinalCutBro]

I’ve seen the first 2 episodes! Waiting to watch the next episodes when I get home.

[@erniemitchell865]

❤❤

[@franklinfisher497]

ive tried following this but the camera isnt going to the rectangle for the shot, its increasing the rectangle size and moving towards the enlarging rectangle. Does anyone know what to do?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

It sounds like you might not have map as a 3D layer. Make sure that it is 3D. Your rectangle likely is 3D, and so it's increasing in scale when the camera is moving forward. Hope that helps!

[@franklinfisher497]

@@TheFinalCutBro how do i make sure the map is a 3d layer? i thought everything becomes 3d when you add the camera?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

@@franklinfisher497 it’s a little bit difficult to explain the icon, but I’ll do my best! In the layers panel, look on the right side. You should see a small icon next to each layer. One icon looks like 3 rectangles of various sizes. The other type of icon looks like 3 squares at a slide 3D angle stacked on top of each other. The 3D angle icon indicates it’s a 3D layer. If it looks like 3 rectangles at different sizes, go ahead and click it and it will switch over to 3D. When you add a camera, it asks if you want to make everything 3D. It’s possible that you might have bumped no. I do that sooooo often it’s not even funny anymore 😂. Hoping that helps!

[@franklinfisher497]

@@TheFinalCutBro thanks for the help

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[@lavinchi6709]

Thank you so much!!!!very interesting and helpful🤽🏼‍♂️🤾🏾✨