Connah's Quay Docks in the early 20th century

[@stephensmith799]

Amazing. This was my Great Great Grandfather’s home port. He worked deep sea and costal passages, reaching Dublin during the Famine, Jordan and we believe Japan. Mam said he liked the Irish and took what food he could during the Famine, including chickens.

[@primus7776]

Superb. Thank You so much !

[@janetwilcock2120]

Brilliant video. It gives a real feeling of what the old Quay docks were like when my Nan and her brother and sister were growing up. My Nan told us that when a new ship was being launched the children had the afternoon off from school to go and watch. In the 1980’s my Dad did a lot of drawings taken from photographs of the area including the Old Quay House where we used to stop outside for a drink when we went for a walk along around “the Rock” when I was little. He did a great drawing of the “Lizzie May”, later renamed “Kathleen and May” which was built in the Quay and which we visited in Liverpool docks but I’m not sure if she is still there now. Dad would have loved this.

[@malcolmsargeant7818]

The moment when you fade from the old photograph to the visualization makes me smile every time.

[@johnnydiamondsmusic1673]

This is amazing. Seeing an are I’m so familiar with and what it looked like all those years ago. And the old Quay House pub building (I’ve drank in there) still there albeit turned into living accommodation a few years ago.

[@WhyM0013Y]

I take a jog down the docks every morning it's so nice and relaxing and the seagull noises played in this video are very accurate

[@ACU5TIC]

Always great to watch, We walk down there daily coming through the tunnel from Buckley, now the cycle path. Still the same lay out. Cheers.

[@pyrodoll2422]

I smell a rat as I'm pretty sure drones weren't around in those days 😁 Fantastic work to be fair, loved it. I'm from Connah's Quay and know the area well. I'd love to see something like this from Shotton steelworks heyday. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@kollusion1]

It looks like the docks would have been the very centre of life, & the Quay back then. Nice work.

[@IronedEye]

Hi man we saw your project in school today as I am by connahs quay so yeah thanks man

[@nigelmorris1286]

Wow just as I knew it as a youngster was brought up here and lived on the High St next to Danny Roscoe's the butchers.

[@howardpearson6281]

What a great model fab

[@steves5172]

A very intuitive construction! Connah Quay has changed dramatically over the years. P.S. love smoke from the locomotive in the background!

[@ianstewartbrown5308]

Would love to see a recreation of the ship building yard and wharf in Saltney just down the river from Connah's Quay

[@markprice6331]

What a great animation, the last time I was down there, it was very different to back then, Would be interestimng for the animation to contininue under the main railway line and up and away from the dock, just an idea!

[@primus7776]

A recreation of the building and launching of the "Royal Charter" at Sandycroft before it was wrecked near Moelfre on Anglesey when returning from the Australian goldfields in 1859 would be magnificent to see ! (Big Ask?)

[@FindingTime]

Such great attention to detail. Lovely stuff :)

[@waynemalcolm234]

Nice work

[@whiskymacable]

Brilliant!..Great to see how it was.

[@DextraVisual]

Thanks Vic

[@mediumaevum]

Those are really nice animations/reconstructions. Very inspiring for my own work. Also - a big thank you for subscribing to my channel!

[@DextraVisual]

Thank you. Your animation for The Greyfriar's Abbey, Viborg, was in my recommended. I really enjoy your work and your presentation style is very high standard. I noticed you do your own music too!

[@mediumaevum]

@@DextraVisual Thanks. If you need music for your future projects, you just ask. I'm sure we can figure something out.

[@zaqpak9391]

Great work!!

[@DextraVisual]

Cheers Zaqpak. I recommend watching on vimeo. KZbin smashes the quality to bits. vimeo.com/432101242

[@zaqpak9391]

@@DextraVisual Will check it out there as well! Really impressed with your work.

[@RoughCutsLtd]

Outstanding work again Martin. Amazing use of technology and your talent. Well done.

[@robm509]

Outstanding work!

[@donnaoldfield-sterry1583]

This is brilliant! I’m from Shotton, do you have any videos from there 🥰

[@davidpryce5079]

Super stuff . . . as usual

[@PedrSion]

I’m a Quay lad, albeit an old one now. I seem to remember reading somewhere, that in the 19th century, the Quay docks were the third busiest in the world after London and Liverpool. Or was it the UK ? Great video. Thanks

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Have you ever thought of doing a basic tutorial of how you make one of these and I was just wondering how long does it take you?

[@ironknightzero]

Months, 3-6 probably

[@BigTez40]

Would love to see a photo of the hundreds of men who used to sit on the river bank of the Dee on thier breaks at the steel works.

[@jrcs1347]

Chimneys from the 2 brickworks in the background

[@AllMy78s]

Very impressed mate...

[@DextraVisual]

Cheers

[@lenstobrush7266]

Brilliant, I really got a feel for life back then. Just wondered where and how do you get your people? Are they modelled separately or do you have a specific program?

[@DextraVisual]

Cheers. The base mesh for the people is from Fuse. The clothing detail and animations are done in Blender and 3dCoat.

[@Howt-ooo]

They built the Royal Charter there?

[@peterbrown1012]

Your video's are fantastic, like stepping back in time, better than just a photograph. Can't wait for more. Is there anymore in the pipeline?

[@DextraVisual]

Cheers Peter. Yes there are several more in the pipeline. My vimeo page has few more on. vimeo.com/432101242

[@COLMVFAHY]

Very Nice - are you using blender or unity? Its very sharp are you rendering at 60fps?

[@DextraVisual]

Thanks Colm. All models are made in Blender, including the people. Textured in 3dcoat and the scene is setup, animated and captured in Unity. The output is 60fps and at 4k. There is some quality loss on youtube. I use a decent PC build these days so I am going to start rendering out full projects in Blender. Your own renderings are very good. I especially like your Rock of Cashel reconstruction, as I was fairly recently reading about Brian Boru and the history of the Rock.

[@COLMVFAHY]

@@DextraVisual I'm doing mostly viewport rendering so that impacts the quality as you probably know too well..I'm slowly mastering blender though..I'm using mostly materialise and gimp as well as blender....anyhoo great work..congrats.

[@SolentSkyServices]

Superb work! Would love to have a chat sometime