We have been very busy the past few months and have lots to blog about. Our DomeFest ‘09 adventure and award win. The phenomanal success of We Are Astronomers since it’s UK launch earlier in the year and news of domes around the world who will be showing it soon.
We have new additions to the team who still haven’t learnt how to use the kettle properly yet. We have finished a couple of exciting smaller projects that we’ll be sharing soon and will be shouting about our awesome current big live project. So much news, so little time, be sure to check our Twitter stream for updates and why not subscribe to our RSS feed if your that way inclined.
We are currently looking for a CG Artist and Junior CG Artist to join the team and work on exciting immersive projects including S3D/4D rides, Fulldome 360′ immersive experiences and 3D holographic stage shows.
If you want to be part of a small team with big ideas and work on some cool projects a bit different than the norm then get in touch.
Just read a really good article on making a Fulldome show in Attractions Management magazine (2009 issue 3). We’re a little biased as we wrote it
Please go check out the article and see what we have to say about our workflow and approach to making our latest digital planetarium show, We Are Astronomers. They picked out some good quotes too!
“They asked for a gentle beginning, because our previous shows were quite dramatic and scared small children!”
“It was about making astronomy exciting and sexy but still credible.”
Thanks to Attractions Management for inviting us to contribute to the magazine, why your there you should subscribe to the digital version of the mag, it is a good read for anyone involved in the attractions/visitor centre arena.
NSC Creative visited the lovely fishing village of Espinho. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to meet other content producers, animators, filmmakers, artists, students, teachers and planetarium professionals within the unique Fulldome market.
We had submitted some of our content from the shows ASTRONAUT and STARS in the competitive section. It was against some tough competition from around the world. There were also public and school screenings for all the competition entries.
After a weekend of back to back screenings of a varied selection of creative Fulldome content it was down to the final day on the Sunday with the award ceremony. This was presented by António Pedrosa and Lina Canas at the Centro Multimeios Espinho, who had organised and looked after us all for the event.
NSC Creative were delighted to pick up 3 awards for the following entries:
Best Soundtrack - The Hunter and His Dog taken from STARS
Best Visuals - Launch from STARS
Finalist – Living in Space from ASTRONAUT.
After a long but successful weekend it was time to return back to the office. We met some great people who share the same passion as we do. Striving to improve awareness and help get as many people into the exciting format of Fulldome as possible.
Full info on the Immersive Film Festival awards via the official site here
Please enjoy the award winning pieces for yourself below:
We have been quiet on the NSC Creative blog lately as we have been busy finishing off our new Fulldome film We Are Astronomers but now that is all wrapped we hope to get much more content on here.
Here is a fun timelapse that we did with our Canon 5D and Sigma 8mm to capture the last day of production on WAA in the NSC Creative animation studio. Normally we are pretty still, staring at our monitors, pushing pixels around but this day was surprisingly active, enjoy!
Music by our NZ friend and collaborator Rhian Sheehan
NSC Creative are very proud to have several Fulldome pieces selected for the competitive section of the European Immersive Film Festival to be held at Centro Multimeios Espinho, Portugal, 24-26 April 2009.
The festival is also a great opportunity to see the latest Fulldome films and two of our past productions will be screened over the course of the festival to delegates and the public. The two films are ASTRONAUT narrated by Ewan McGregor, originally created for the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK and STARS narrated by Mark Hamill which we created for the Adventure Science Centre, Nashville, TN, USA.
Last year NSC Creative picked up a “Domie” award at DomeFest 2008 in Chicago.
The coveted prize was for “Best use of Dome” for the piece Centrifuge. The piece Neurons also made it onto the final juried selection. These two immersive Fulldome sequences adapted from the ever popular ASTRONAUT show joined an eclectic collection of international contributions covering a diverse set of disciplines. The packed audience at the Adler Planeterium enjoyed an evocative 45minutes of Fulldome followed by a real world explosive fireworks display.
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