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