World Map
Animated world choropleth with country-by-country reveal, tooltip labels, and rotating globe inset — D3 Natural Earth projection
16:9 · 14 sTemplates
Animated map templates
Where it happened, shown instead of said.
Maps tell the viewer where they are in a story. These templates draw a world, US or Spain map that fills region by region, a bubble map of cities, a flow map of connections, a hex-grid map of states and an annotated map callout, plus a flight route from New York to Paris.
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All 8 animated maps
Open Graphics in the editor to change any of them, see it play, and render it into your video.
US Map
Animated US choropleth map with staggered state reveals, value labels, and gradient legend — pure inline SVG with GSAP
16:9 · 12 s
Spain Map
Animated Spain choropleth by autonomous community with staggered reveals and gradient legend — D3 conic conformal projection
16:9 · 12 s
US Bubble Map
Animated US bubble map with proportional city markers, value callouts, and connection lines — composable with us-map
16:9 · 12 sUS Flow Map
Animated connection arcs between US cities over a base map — composable origin-destination flow visualization
16:9 · 12 s
US Hex Grid Map
Animated hexagonal tile grid map — each state as an equal-weight hex with data fill and abbreviation label
16:9 · 10 sNYC Paris Flight
Apple-style realistic map animation with a plane flying from New York to Paris, marker circle, landing pop, and sound effects.
16:9 · 6 s · You change: landing badge
North Korea Locked Down
Realistic map zoom into North Korea with a red scribble circle, locked-down pop-up label, and reddish editorial wash.
16:9 · 7 s
Blocks marked Ours are UGCLive's. The rest are from HeyGen's open-source HyperFrames registry (Apache-2.0, commit 1c3fcf4), with their authors' descriptions.
Which map for which story
| Story | Map |
|---|---|
| A number per country or state | World map, US map, Spain map (choropleth) |
| Where the big cities are | US bubble map |
| Things moving between places | US flow map, NYC to Paris flight |
| Every state the same size | US hex grid map |
| One place called out on the news | Annotated map (North Korea locked down) |
Where maps fit
History and geography channels use a map at every change of place. Travel videos open each leg with a route. Explainers and news recaps show where an event happened before showing what happened, which gives the viewer a frame for the rest.
A map works best as a short cutaway of four to ten seconds over the narration, not a long hold.
Adding one
- 1
Search maps
Open Graphics, choose Charts and numbers or search "map".
- 2
Preview it
The panel plays it exactly as it will render.
- 3
Place it
It goes over the video at the playhead as a cutaway, only over real footage with room for it.
Questions
Can I colour the regions with my own data?
Not yet: the maps play as their designers drew them, with their own sample data. For your own number per place, our bar chart takes up to six labels with values and reads faster on a phone.
Can I animate a route between two cities?
The NYC Paris Flight block draws a flight path between New York and Paris. Other routes aren't a variable yet.
Are the maps vertical?
They're drawn 16:9. In a Short they fit or fill the frame; pick whichever keeps the region you need on screen.
Keep reading
- Charts and countersNumber counters that count up, bar chart races, line graphs, progress rings and comparisons. Type the numbers and drop the chart into your video.
- Explainer videosExplain how something works in a minute: a picture for each step, chapter cards, numbers on screen and a calm narrator. Vertical or landscape.
- Mystery videosTell an unsolved story the way mystery channels do: a low narrator, one eerie picture per beat, slow camera moves and captions that land each line.
- Faceless channel ideasFifteen faceless YouTube channel ideas, each with what the videos look like, a sample opening line and a finished example video you can copy.
- BackgroundsAnimated motion backgrounds for video: gradients, halftone fields, starfields, snow, galaxies and light flares, to put behind titles, quotes and talking points.
- TransitionsShader transitions, light leaks, glitches, whip pans and full transition sets. Drop one between two shots and render it into your video in the editor.
Updated 29 October 2026
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