# Remotion Maps — effect skill for explainers

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Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.

- **Type:** [Effect](https://varg.ai/how-to/effects.md) · [Explainers](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/explainers.md)
- **Slug:** `remotion-maps`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Remotion (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills/tree/main/skills/remotion-maps
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Node.js, Remotion 4, Mapbox, MapTiler or Cesium token for those techniques
- **Cost:** Free — local render (Remotion company license for larger for-profit teams)
- **Adoption:** 189,700 installs, 5,750 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A technique library for map animation in Remotion with one folder per approach: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS. Each technique ships a TECHNIQUE.md, TSX components, sample GeoJSON and path data, and prep scripts for routes and 3D flyovers.

## Use when

- Route, travel or location animations
- Data stories on a map
- 3D city or terrain flyovers

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-maps -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-maps -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-maps -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-maps -a gemini-cli`

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/e38ee7b9062f/remotion-maps.mp4 — Maps skill launch demo: the prompt, then the map zooms out of Los Angeles and a route animates to New York with the camera following it (credit: Jonny Burger (@JNYBGR), Remotion founder, https://x.com/JNYBGR/status/2015059120080977936)

## How-to tutorials that use it

- [How to make an animated chart video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-animated-chart-video.md): Numbers from a CSV or a report as an animated chart: bar race, line, hero number.

## More explainers skills

- [HyperFrames](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes.md): Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- [HyperFrames Slideshow](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-slideshow.md): Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- [Plain-Sight Explainer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-vox-explainer.md): 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- [Remotion Create](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/remotion-create.md): Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- [Higgsfield Video Explainer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-video-explainer.md): Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
- [Explainer Video Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-explainer-video-guide.md): Plan explainer videos end to end: script formulas, pacing, scene planning, voiceover and assembly.

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt