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Animating graticules with Grid

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Animating graticules with Grid

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- If you've ever looked at a globe, you might remember the grid lines drawn over the entire thing depicting latitude and longitude. Those lines are called graticules. I've always loved the added style e those lines create on a globe. So in this project, we're going to animate those graticules over our 2D map. And we're going to do that using the Grid Effect. Let's go ahead and look at out project. Notice I have a map composition, and it's made up of three layers. I have the main map, which I can turn on and off there. I have a depth copy, which is this darker copy in the background. And then I have a Royal Blue Solid. And as you can see, there are gradients over each one of these different elements. And so I want to add just one more layer. So let's go up under Layer, and I'll create a new Solid. And I'll make sure the solid is the Comp Size, and I'll click OK. Now it doesn't matter what color the layer is, yours may be something completely different. But since the last solid I…

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