Here’s an example video to watch how this file works:
http://vimeo.com/36654379
This is a 3D USA Election Map that can be entirely controlled and animated inside Cinema 4D. It features an extensive control panel, coded with XPresso, which allows you to offset the position of individual states to bring them forward and be the focus of your scene. You can also activate random motion to have the states flow back and forth in terms of their depth, a feature used on many news shows. You can use this to create all sort of political animations when dealing with individual states or the country as a whole. You can apply different materials to the states to get an entirely different look to your map.