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QGIS Animation Workbench QGIS 4 compatibility
Not QGIS 4 ready Active
Not yet — the latest version declares max QGIS version 3.99.0, so it is not offered to QGIS 4 users.
A plugin to let you build animations in QGIS
About
QGIS Animation Bench exists because we wanted to use all the awesome cartography features in QGIS and make cool, animated maps! QGIS already includes the Temporal Manager which allows you to produce animations for time-based data. But what if you want to make animations where you travel around the map, zooming in and out, and perhaps making features on the map wiggle and jiggle as the animation progresses? That is what the animation workbench tries to solve...
| Author | Tim Sutton, Nyall Dawson, Jeremy Prior |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 6,762 |
| Latest version | 1.4 |
| Last updated | 2026-03-09 (221 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.0.0 |
| Max QGIS | 3.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | No |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Category | Cartography & layout |
| Tags | visualization, animation, video, temporal, cartography |
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