Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Here's how to create some stylized topography animations in Adobe After Effects using real world elevation data (heightmaps). And remember kids, freedom isn't free. Join my Patreon now to go beast-mode mapmaker. patreon.com/boonelovesvideo

Tangram Heightmapper - tangrams.github.io/heightmapper
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0:00 Intro
0:18 Patreon
0:31 Get the Heightmap
1:25 Posterize Effect
2:26 Exposure Effect
3:19 Control Edge Smoothness
3:42 Essential Properties Workflow
5:41 Set Matte for Alpha Edges
7:17 Add Bevel and Drop Shadow to Edges
8:27 Color Controls
8:41 Precomping
9:17 Add Color Background
9:57 Creating the Topography
10:32 Offset Terrain with Index Expression
12:57 Animating the Terrain
14:38 Animating the Light
16:27 Outro

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