October 25, 2011 10:33 pm
Roll up, roll up, the chance of a life-time is now available to come and work for NSC Creative!
We are looking to fill not one but two very different positions.
We require a Junior CG Artist to join us and work on exciting immersive projects. A strong generalist is required who has an excellent foundation in CG film making, a desire to get involved in all aspects of the production process and a hunger to learn more*.
The other opening is for an experienced Front-end web developer/designer. Now that may sound like a bit of a mouth full but basically we need a totally awesome web person who knows their CSS3 from their back-end. If you’re a coder with a flair for design or an artist with a logical and rational coding side then get in touch asap.
The closing dates are very soon.
Full job descriptions and application info here http://www.nsccreative.com/jobs/
*Tea making skills are not a “requirement” but are looked upon favorably.
July 26, 2011 6:33 pm
NSC Creative is currently in production on a brand new Fulldome film and we need YOU to help us make it even better.
We are holding a focus group in our home dome @ The National Space Centre, Leicester, UK.
Date: Saturday 30 July 2011
Time: 9.30am (prompt!)
Prize: Free family pass to visit the amazing National Space Centre
Age: 8 – 18 yrs
We are currently short on 12 – 18 year olds so if you fall in-to this category we’ll give you an extra high five if you can join us.
Places offered on a first come basis.
We will need you to watch the 25 minute film in our giant 18 metre digital dome and then answer some questions in a group for about 30 minutes. The evaluation sessions will be staggered so you might need to hang around until 1pm till we can release you but you will be able to wander around the space centre whilst waiting (we have rockets and everything).
If you are interested in this unique opportunity to help us make a super cool dome show then drop us your age, name, gender, contact number and name of a parent or guardian if you are under 16 on an email to
web@nsccreative.com
Deadline for responses is 1pm Friday 29 July 2011 so get your skates on!
To whet your appetite the synopsis goes something like this:
“This is the story about how all 70 trillion cells in our bodies are connected and how they work together to allow us to exist.
A character driven adventure involving zoomascopes, shrinkatrons and roller skating, fire breathing tattoo artists! We travel into a cell to discover the secret of DNA, see a baby develop from a sperm and egg and explore the diversity of different cells in our body and how they all work together”.
September 15, 2010 6:47 pm
We are after a gaggle (please tell us if you know the correct term for a group of CG Artists) of CG Artists to join our established team to work on some marvellous projects. We are a small but growing team of creatives who specialise in CG immersive film making with a diverse range of clients meaning each job is something fresh and exciting. The ideal artists would demonstrate a broad range of CG skills but if you are really, really good at a particular area of CG and like the idea of working for us then please still apply as we will consider specialists if it fits our current needs. Graduates and experienced artists are encouraged to apply as we have several positions to fill.
Full job descriptions and application info here http://www.nsccreative.com/jobs/
July 2, 2010 4:17 pm
The sun has set on IPS 2010.
We have just spent the last week or so at the 20th International Planetarium Society Conference held at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt.
It was a great conference with chance to catch up with old friends, make many new ones and see what the planetarium world has been up to lately.
We took lot’s of photos and chatted to lot’s of people so will be following up with more posts soon once we have all caught our breath.
If you entered our competition to win the free, 6 month, We Are Astronomers license and plush 2.0 we will be announcing the winner in about a weeks time once we have collated all the questionnaires.
We were handing out our brand new brochure and demo DVD so if you didn’t get one drop us an email and we’ll send you one. Our website is due a major update also to incorporate all the new information so please check back over the coming weeks.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hello, roll on IPS 2012, Baton Rouge!
May 19, 2010 8:53 am
We are proud members of BAP, the British Association of Planetaria. It was the annual meeting 7-8 May which we attended with over 90 people, a record for BAP, it keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. Thanks again to all involved at Intech and behind the scenes for making it a great conference. Our new Production Assistant, Rebecca Simpson who joined us recently shares her first BAP experience below:
So last Friday was my first BAP experience, in fact it was my first conference experience with NSC Creative. Initially I was slightly confused as to what baked goods had to do with Planetariums, but all was revealed upon arrival at INTECH Planetarium in Winchester. The British Association of Planetaria conference [ although, as of this conference the Republic of Ireland is now included so it should really be I-BAP!?] commenced with introductions and then we were holed up in a darkened room for 90% of the weekend.
There was a bit of an international feel to the event with presentations from Global Immersion, SCISS, Sky-Skan, E&S, R.S.A Cosmos and Mirage 3D to name a few. We also had teleconferences with IMERSA in Jena, Germany and SCISS wowed the audience with a Uniview domecast with Ghana and Minnesota. We watched the premieres of Violent Universe, Natural Selection and were introduced to art in the planetarium which was hosted by the Centre for Life and Think Tank. There was a show on caffeine that would have benefitted from the addition of aromas, they did say at the end that it was a shame that that type of technology didn’t exist…. they obviously haven’t been to see our 4D experience on biomes yet at Our Dynamic Earth.
There seemed to be a hint of revolution in the air regarding new topics for dome shows with a majority seeming to like the idea of trying something new that wasn’t Space related. Personally I think there’s a lot of uncharted territory with regards to space exploration and not all of it is outside our solar system. Maybe some sort of disaster dome show around the concept of ‘What if the 2036 asteroid Apophis actually impacts Earth?’
The Planetarium highlight of my weekend was We Are Astronomers, it’s not bias… honest! Outside of the Planetarium, my other highlight was definitely the rather competitive ‘design an alien’ on the final evening. This included the use of fire, explosives and five breasts! [ There were even attempts at bribery].
Becki
Thanks Becki and welcome to the team! We look forward to your reports on the upcoming IPS conference in Egypt.
May 11, 2010 7:08 pm
Ok, sooo much going on at the moment… we just picked up an award for our dome film We Are Astronomers, we were at the BAP conference at the weekend, we have a new dome film in pre-production, we were finalists for a Leicester Business Award, we are busy updating show reels and planning for IPS2010 in Egypt, a new member of staff has just come aboard and we have lots of other ace things bubbling along! These are busy but exciting times for us all at NSC Creative. We will have a series of blog posts coming over the next few weeks to fill you in on our latests projects, acheivements and what events we will be at for the rest of the year, in the meantime why not check out one of the trailers for WAA?
November 9, 2009 4:21 pm
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.
August 30, 2009 11:52 am
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.
Full job descriptions and application info here http://www.nsccreative.com/jobs/
Please don’t let the picture put you off applying.
July 22, 2009 6:49 pm
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.
Time to go read the article >
June 25, 2009 6:12 pm
NSC Creative recently completed a brand identity for an exciting new interactive exhibition that is launching July 18-19 at the National Space Centre.
We also did a WordPress skin for the marketing blog, go check it out and find out more about the project here www.projectapollo.co.uk
Personally we think the new exhibit sounds ace and can’t wait to go and check it out, you should too!
Big and juicy high res over on Flickr
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