A road trip map animation, city to city.
Set the cities of your drive in order and Sky İnk draws the road across the land and drives it: a car on the map, the camera following, the earth turning beneath — a short vertical film for sharing.
How it works
- Pick the places. Cities and towns by name; a viewpoint, a trailhead or a beach by putting the crosshair on it. Up to eight, in the order you drove.
- Set the legs to car. A car, a camper or a bus on the road — and where the trip began with a flight, that leg flies.
- Watch it drive, then send it. The camera stays low and tilted, the road drawn as it goes, north always up. Vertical for the feed, square, or wide.
What the film shows
The road drawn across the land through the towns on the way — a map's line, not a turn-by-turn route — with the vehicle on it and each place named as it arrives. At the end, the whole drive in one pull-back to the globe. The film above drives from Amsterdam across the Balkans and Anatolia, over the Caucasus to Tehran and on to Astana — wide, the whole continent in frame, in the Terrain look, the land's relief in colour.
The look
Four looks for the earth: Satellite, NASA's photograph of the planet; Terrain, its relief in colour; Blueprint, the relief in two blues; and Day, a map in a day map's colours, drawn from open data. Each look has its own close-up for the start and the end of a leg; the route's colour and width are yours to set, and a look you like is kept for the next film.
Where to make it
On iPhone — the Sky İnk app, on the App Store: the film renders on the phone and is saved to Photos; nothing is uploaded. In your browser — the studio at skyink.co, on a phone or a desktop: the film renders on our server and is yours to download for a week. Building a route works without an account; keeping things — the film, a look, a favourite stop — asks you to sign in, with Apple, with Google or with an email link. There is no password.
The things people ask
- Can a road trip include a flight? Yes. Each leg has its own means of travel; fly in, drive on.
- Can I add the places we stopped for the night? Up to eight stops in one route. For a longer trip, make two films.
- A camper van, a bus? Choose it for the leg; the film puts it on the road.
- Does it follow the exact roads I took? It draws the road between your stops across the land; the places you add are what shape it. Add a town on the way and the road goes through it.