Cal Johnson |
June 5th, 2006 10:20 AM |
From what you're describing, I'd say you're looking for custom CG work. The stuff you see on Discovery Channel is all done by teams using very sophisticated CG software. Creating 3D graphics is a very time consuming process, and its not something that you can just jump into.
However, if you are just looking for a static aerial shot (like Louisiana as seen from space) that shows the changes over time, then you'd need a series of aerial shots, each showing a different stage of development, and then you could just fade one shot into the next. You're still going to have to generate the images in Photoshop or some other graphics program (After Effects isn't going to readily generate the graphics for you, its really more for manipulating graphics once they've been created), unless you can find someone that's already created the type of images you're after.
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