maps made with AI

The whole trick is the push-in: on the full world the sample route spans barely 230px, so the film zooms 2.3x into the ocean before any mechanic plays — the draw, the highlight and the markers all happen at a size where they read.

The tracking feel comes from one decision: the jet is glued to the arc's drawing head and steered by the path's own tangent, so it banks exactly where the great-circle curve bends.

Sync is the whole entry: the truck, the trail and the checkpoint triggers all read one eased progress value, so a checkpoint fills on the exact frame the truck's nose reaches it — no hand-timed keyframes to drift.

Frame the operation, not the continent: the first cut drew the whole region and the entire fight happened in one corner as a knot of labels.

Path morphing only works when every state is built by the same code path — same command count, same structure — so generate the front's dated states from one smoothing function with per-point offsets, never hand-drawn variants.