Creating an animation in Apple Motion and Final Cut - Unedited

For those that are interested - here's a really long video of me editing a short animation that's a small part of an upcoming video on St. Petersburg, Florida.

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction and editing the audio reference clip
00:02:00 - Create the Motion project
00:03:00 - Add animation objects to Motion
00:18:00 - Build the Motion animation rough draft
00:50:00 - Smooth out the camera moves and details
01:02:00 - Add lighting and shadows
01:08:00 - Add depth-of-field and focus effects
01:12:00 - Put the sequence into Final Cut

Some people have asked to see how these animations are made and this was the easiest way to do it - but it's not edited and is quite long. Feel free to skip around to see different parts of it.

To create these animations I edit the audio first and then use that audio as a timing reference in Motion. Then I build an animation based on whatever's said in the script - using whatever ideas and themes I think of along the way.

For this video I've already done all the research and collected together all the images I think I'm going to need - that takes about a week usually. Then it's write and record the script and then start doing the Motion graphics - which takes several weeks to get through the entire thing.

Let me know in the comments if this kind of thing is interesting or not :-)