Dr James Alexander Cameron (@drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com)

Do I have the same audience here as the Twitter? Probably, but I've put together my first long-form narrated video in over four years! It's very low-budget (I didn't leave the computer to make it) but it's getting rave reviews!* *a number of people have clicked like www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2vD...

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The great church of Glastonbury Abbey reimagined (animation and commentary) One of the largest, and final, church buildings demolished in the wake of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, recreated in its modern environs. Done plenty of G-Earth comps of lost churches before, but this the first where I've made the model myself from scratch, so I've spun out the animation (which takes the laptop I use 15 hours to render the 40-second sequence) into a long-form video, where I compare it the buildings I've stolen elements from. Started as a quick idea of doing like a pre-filmed stream, but then I've developed it in my usual way (putting silly noises on it). It's an experiment! I hope it's mildly entertaining!! Been through the YouTube generated captions now it's been uploaded, they should be readable, will correct them more later (I think the last time I uploaded a long-form narrated video - four years ago - we didn't have this?) LINKS: University of Reading public-facing output from AHRC project: https://research.reading.ac.uk/glastonburyabbeyarchaeology/ Hot stuff from that for nerds: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/glastonbury_ahrc_2014/ The recent publication on the Glastonbury cathedra at Washington: https://www.sdnq.org.uk/spotlight_on_sdnq/glastonbury-abbey-and-washington-national-cathedral-washington-d-c/ Animation done in Blender. Syncing cameras to G-Earth Studio output with https://github.com/imagiscope/EarthStudioTools And ripping environs with via https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter Screen recording with OBS Studio (did weigh down the laptop a fair bit hence why particularly the Washington sequence I struggle a bit to make Blender behave). Video sequencing also done in Blender, which wasn't a great idea but whatever it wasn't that bad in the end. Will use a different program if I ever do anything like this again though. All photos credited on-screen. If they're not credited I took them (unless I messed up). 0:00 - Rendered animation 1:28 - Intro to the extras 3:06 - History of Glastonbury Abbey up to the fire of 1184 6:42 - Making the great church model 10:10 - Wells Cathedral 19:56 - Gloucester Cathedral 23:54 - Winchester Cathedral 25:57 - Peterborough Cathedral 29:38 - Lincoln Cathedral 32:34 - Washington National Cathedral 37:41 - The Washington Glastonbury bishop's throne 40:06 - Outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2vDCHM66t8