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Ep 89---

Carlo sits down with David McGee, a young man from Boyle who has quietly built one of the most niche and impressive YouTube channels in Ireland. 

Blue Star Line, his channel dedicated to historically accurate 3D ship animations, has over 127,000 subscribers and a single video with close to 7 million views.

David talks about growing up beside the boys school in Boyle, his grandfather Dick McGee's influence on his love of photography and storytelling, making short films on a Nintendo 3DS, his obsession with the Titanic since the age of four or five, and how a school musical called All Shook Up set him on the path to technical production. 

He also covers commissions from Italian documentary companies, drone footage of the hot air balloons at Lough Key that went viral, working on the film "Ann" in Boyle, and what it takes to render a 20-minute animation that can take a month to produce. 

A genuinely fascinating conversation about creativity, craft and a passion pursued quietly but brilliantly.

Check out the full blog post on this episode - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/davidmcgee

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Thanks to Brendan O' Dowd for creating and recording the musical piece for the podcast.