Kevin Snyder offers insights into creating great looking animated maps in Cinema 4D. Creating 3D Geometry using USGS Geographic Information Systems) DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data, this is a great walkthrough on how you can get a highly detailed terrain.
[pullquote]Create 3d geometry from USGS DEM data in Cinema 4D.[/pullquote]Kevin also uses and merges DRG (Digital Raster Graphic) data for the texture of the terrain, producing high resolution contours for the animated maps.
There is a bit of the Mograph module used to create a marker path along the animated map’s terrain. The final animation will be taken to Adobe After Effects to add depth of field and apply color correction.
