OK, so my first thoughts about how to do this are effectively correct. That I am going to need to have multiple "layers" of Content at higher resolution of detail. And that using vector images for the ships will likely be better than using Raster. But that the Map itself needs to be Raster...

I am kind of new to 2D Animation (at least digital - I can do Old-School 2D Cell-Animation, or various types of 2D Stop-Motion, or Frame-Capture Animation)., and I am working on a project that I have a need to do a "Zoom" into a region of a Map (specifically, the Earth, and even more Speci...