Animation is complete, what now? I'm new to Blender and so I followed a tutorial on how to animate a map. It's really a great tutorial especially for beginners. However, the tutorial does not include what to do after all the elements of the animation are complete. I can playback the animation in the material viewport shading, but when I do playback in rendered viewport shading it's very blurry.

So what do I do next to create a "movie" of this animation? I imagine the full animation has to be rendered first. I hit the animation button under the render section and it looked like Blender rendered every frame of the animation, but I don't know what to do next. I don't know what happened to all of those rendered frames. Can someone please help?

Thank you for reading.
First you have to select the output format, if you select image file format (PNG, JPG,...) every frame of the animation will be saved as single image, on the other side if you select video format (H.264,...) animation will be saved as video. The destination of the saved video or frame images is specified by the output path.

It is recommended to render the animation as images and then make video using the Video Sequencer, because if something happens halfway rendering the animation you can start it again from the last rendered frame, which is not possible when the output format is video.