Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago

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Today I'm recreating and animating a very cool D-Day map I found in Cross Channel Attack, a book from the US Army Center of Military History.

Project file available on my Patreon page! patreon.com/boonelovesvideo
GEOlayers 3 MasterClass - bit.ly/3NK6WyY
GEOlayers WAR! Battle Map Masterclass - boonelovesvideo.teachable.com/p/geolayers-3-war

0:00 Intro
1:01 Aligning the Reference Map
4:10 Create a Mapcomp View
5:30 Draw out the Countries
9:05 Draw out the Ocean
9:30 Draw out the Rivers
12:04 Label the Countries and Water Bodies
15:15 Label the Cities with Label Templates
25:28 Adding Animated Arrows
32:50 Retiming the Animation
35:40 Trace the Embarkation Areas
37:00 Add Airplane Icon to Route

Tools I Used in this Tutorial -
GEOlayers 3 - bit.ly/3zMj1Lq
Envato Elements - bit.ly/3o2DOYN
Music by Epidemic Sound - share.epidemicsound.com/w0k34s
Camtasia - techsmith.z6rjha.net/yqmx13

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