Work/Web & motion/Content engine
Map Tangent
A channel of map and geopolitics Shorts produced by an automated video engine — one new story every day.
A studio that fits in a folder.
Map Tangent explains the odd corners of the map: enclaves, chokepoints, true sizes and borders that shouldn’t work. Each Short is written, voiced, timed, animated and rendered by a pipeline of around thirty Python scripts.
A storyboard compiler turns a script into shots; a renderer draws the maps, labels, flags and animated stickers; word-level timing keeps the captions on the beat; and a thumbnail generator finishes the job. Nothing is scheduled until I’ve approved it.
The engine produced 150 Shorts in its first three weeks.
- Format
- YouTube Shorts · vertical
- Engine
- ≈ 30 Python scripts · numpy · ffmpeg
- Voice and timing
- AI voice · word-level alignment
- Output
- 150 Shorts in the first three weeks
- Launched
- September 2026
Storyboard compiler
A script becomes a shot list with timings, maps and callouts.
Fast renderer
Maps, glowing labels, flags and animated stickers are drawn straight to frames.
Thumbnails included
Every video gets a generated thumbnail in the channel’s style.
A human in the loop
Videos are produced in batches, and only scheduled after approval.