Randomly filling shape with dots

[Tina Strube]

Hey.

I am pretty new to AE.

I want to do an animation where I have a world map

that I slowly start covering it with bluedots (bopbopbopbopop).

it gets faster and at the end the whole map is coverd  in blue.

Does anyone have an idea how to approach it.

I dont want to animate those dots manually 🙂

Thanks in advance

[Mylenium]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UaZNcVobhg

Other than that any number of other techniques applies from creating layer maps for particle Playground to using Card dance or third-party particle plug-ins.

Mylenium

[Tina Strube]

Interesting. Thanks.

Any idea how to distribute the dots randomly over time on the map ?

Thanks

[Tina Strube]

Oh. I guess Particles Playground will help 🙂

[Mylenium]

The random distribution entirely can be controled by the map in a pre-composition like e.g. fading from a noise to a fully white contour for full visibility/ scale. Same for any other method, including particle-based methosds. You have to think your way through how to create the maps. Everything else is trivial after that.

Mylenium