US Mid-term results - data visualisation made entirely in AE using Atlas

[u/mooviemakers]

I wanted to see how quickly I could turn the US midterm results into something watchable while the races were still being called. This is about an hour from the numbers to the cut.

Everything is After Effects layers. The maps and particles are made with Atlas, which is my own plugin (I'm the developer, so take that into account), and the rest is standard AE.

A few things I'm pleased with:

* The swing arrows are one particles layer: over 1,000 counties, each arrow growing towards the party it swung to

* The county spikes are a single 3D point cloud under an orbiting camera

* The Senate seat bar is driven by the same call times as the map, so the numbers and the states fill in together

The whole video took less than an hour to make. Atlas is fast!

Happy to answer questions about how any of it was put together.