# Map route from LA to New York to Paris

> A 10-second map animation: the camera zooms out of Los Angeles, follows a line drawn to New York, then continues to Paris, where a 3D Eiffel Tower appears. Made with a short Claude Code prompt and one follow-up, using Remotion's agent skills.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 4.5
- Built with: Remotion
- Skills or plugins: Remotion Agent Skills
- Style: Motion graphics; map animation, travel route, globe, route line, 3d landmark, camera follow
- Length and format: 10 sec, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @JNYBGR in Remotion Prompt Showcase (Website), Feb 1, 2026: https://www.remotion.dev/prompts/travel-route-on-map-with-3d-landmarks
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: A Remotion project (npx create-video@latest); Remotion Agent Skills, including the maps skill (npx skills add remotion-dev/skills); A Mapbox token, which the creator's launch post said the Maps skill needed.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Swap the places: "zoom out of LA", "a line from LA to NY", and "this time we go to paris". Replace "animate the eiffel tower and show it in 3D" with a landmark at your own destination.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
use remotion best practices. make a new composition and add a map and zoom out of LA while staying focused on it. once done, animate a line from LA to NY and make the camera follow it.

add another stop to the trip, this time we go to paris. animate the eiffel tower and show it in 3D!
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A light, clean web map: a red route line runs from Los Angeles across a globe to New York and on to Paris, ending on a tilted 3D street view with a pale Eiffel Tower model.

- Color: Pale green land, light sky-blue water, gray-white roads, a dark navy starfield around the globe, a thin red route line with red dots, and beige 3D buildings in the Paris view.
- Type: Small dark map labels under each red dot: Los Angeles, New York, Paris.
- Framing: The current stop sits near the center. The middle frames show the whole globe against space, and the last frame tilts down into the streets, with the Seine and a park around the tower.
- Structure: A close flat map of Los Angeles, a globe of North America with LA and New York marked, the red line partway across and then reaching New York, the line heading out over the Atlantic toward Paris, a globe centered on Europe, a closer flat view of Paris, then the tilted 3D street view with the Eiffel Tower at the Paris marker.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 0.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 2.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 3.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 6.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 7.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 8.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 9.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/animated-travel-route-from-la-to-new/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: no
- Notes: The submitted prompt has two parts: the LA-to-New York route, then a second paragraph that adds the Paris stop and the 3D Eiffel Tower. In January 2026 the creator announced a Maps skill for Remotion on X and said it needed a Mapbox token.

> It's not always one-shot, but very steerable.
> (@JNYBGR)

## Links

- Watch: https://www.remotion.dev/prompts/travel-route-on-map-with-3d-landmarks
- Original post: https://www.remotion.dev/prompts/travel-route-on-map-with-3d-landmarks
- Maps skill launch post on X: https://x.com/JNYBGR/status/2015059120080977936