Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: Cathedrals of France

For the locations of ALL the medieval cathedrals of France, and a bit of an overview, see this post of mine:
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This is my first-ever 3D animation, which uses models of all the cathedrals of France covered by Google Earth 3D accurately scaled over their groundplans, which I've been working toward for the past couple of months. Teaching myself the ins-and-outs of the Blender program, I have clipped them out of their environs myself and then, uh, put them in some sort of Star Wars framework. Because why not.
This is part of a larger project to collate the medieval cathedrals of Europe. The models for England's cathedrals (which I have a much much higher proportion of) are largely ready to go, just need ordering and animating in a similar way. I mean, in space, obviously. So LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!!
[titbits: I did originally include the ruins of Cimiez (modern Nice) as the shortest one, but since they are just very low-level ruins and the town was really in the Kingdom of Savoy (more like Italy) for the middle ages and most of the early modern period, I decided to leave it out. Troyes Cathedral also used to be in Google Earth but since the French government complained about their prisons being visible and there's one in the city centre the whole area's been removed. It is of course, a shame that most of the important Early Gothic cathedrals in the Paris area and Picardy aren't in, namely Sens, Noyon, Laon, Soissons, Nevers. Also a lamentable omission is what would've been the longest with the tallest medieval spire, the world heritage site that is Chartres Cathedral. This also does not include medieval great churches that became cathedrals much later on, e.g. Dijon (seat of a bishop from 1792) and St-Denis (1966)] or what were basically part of the Holy Roman Empire in the middle ages (namely Metz and Strasbourg, which would potentially be part of a future animation of the Imperium Sacrum Romanum battlefleet)
Most sound effects were taken from this:
• Star Wars: Empire at W...
The Chopin "cover" (can barely call it an arrangement, although it does include all the sections of the original movement, and I worked it out from the sheet music for the most part) was made by me over the last three weeks or so, and stems from my fascination about whether it resembles the Imperial March or not. Well, it certainly does when you add in some triplets to the rhythm. Fuller version available here: / marche-funebre-v3

[@fdsdh1]

Now that is what I call the Gothic Sector!

[@HerewardTheW]

No Chartres? I've watched three times but couldn't see it!

[@forsakenfionn4715]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Zethanie]

🤩 Amazing

[@MH-ms1dg]

what does the word "vessel" mean in this case?