Participating in a MAP

What is a MAP?

A MAP or Multi Animator Project is a project were many animators come together and animate small sections, mostly to a piece of music and is then edited together by the host to create one final video. MAPs often provide a good ground to improve an animators skill set as they can experiment and work with different camera shots to create an interesting addition to the project.

Here is an example of a completed MAP

Joining a MAP

In order to join a MAP you first need to look for a MAP call or a MAP host. These are usually videos that a MAP host has edited together with numbers marking each part. The parts are then claimed by animators and they then have a certain amount of time to complete it. This video goes more in depth as to what MAPs you can join and other rules and scripts that one might have to follow to join the MAP.

To join the MAP I firstly looked up open MAP into Youtube and looked through the available MAPs I could join. This one in particular caught my attention so I quickly grabbed the last part.

Next off for this was to get a sketch ready. This is very important to do as it provides evidence for the MAP host that you are working on the project.

This is very much just a basic sketch as to what I want to have in my part for the project. If I had wanted to be more clear for myself in the future I would have also used arrows and movement to indicate the camera movement. But as I am currently working on this pretty much full time I felt that it wasn’t too necessary. After this I then went and lined everything.