Libya 3D map animation: a tilted paper map with routes, made without After Effects

How it is built in the editor

1. New 16:9 project, 30 fps, Mercator. A flat dark-teal basemap with every base layer turned off.
2. Libya’s land imported as an orange area with a thin brown coast, highlight areas for land and sea, and a paper texture filling the land.
3. Thin brown lines for rail, roads, rivers and borders, each growing with zoom, and a white glowing outline on the highlighted area.
4. Nine camera shots in three groups with two hard cuts, using roll and a narrow field of view for the tilted-paper feel.
5. Eight routes drawing over 1.4–3.0 s: five white lines and three dashed blue lines, each with its own easing.
6. Labels laid flat on the map: route names, three cities with dots, and the LIBYA title block.
7. A warm multiply gradient overlay in the middle of the frame.

What is in the project

9 camera shots · 8 routes and lines · 11 areas. Every one of them is a layer on the timeline that you can select, retime or restyle.

What is on screen: Libya in orange on a tilted 3D map, the camera sweeping to its coast and back to a bold black label.

Make your own version

Open the project, then change it by hand on the timeline or ask the agent in the chat. Ideas to start from, with a sentence you can give the agent:

• Another country on the same tilted paper.

  “Keep the paper look and the tilted camera. Make it Egypt, with the Nile drawn as one white line.”

• Trade routes out of one country.

  “Same look. Draw five export routes leaving Nigeria, with a label on each.”

The free plan opens and edits this project and exports up to 1280 px, videos up to 10 seconds, with a watermark, for personal use. Satellite, 3D terrain and audio in exports, 4K and commercial use come with Pro. See plans.

How it was made

Built by hand in the Maptake editor, without After Effects or a plugin, as a rebuild of a popular After Effects map tutorial on YouTube. Every layer, camera key and label is editable.