February 9, 2011 11:08 am
Exciting news! Global Immersion, our partners for the 2010 4DVenture at Our Dynamic Earth have won an award at the EMEA + InAVation awards held during the 5th ISE event in Amsterdam. They came top in the ‘Most InAVative Leisure or Entertainment Facility’ for Our Dynamic Earth, UK. They beat off stiff competition from three other worthy finalists. Last week Global Immersion sent us a thank you for our contribution to the project that won. A congratulations to everyone at Global Immersion and a ‘GO NSC CREATIVE!’ for us.
February 4, 2011 10:31 am
Here at NSC Creative we have been very busy working on a number of projects for the new Children’s Museum in Cairo. The main project is a dome show that takes the children on an adventure through time to meet their ancestors and the great pioneers of Egypt. We start with discovering how the ancient Pharaohs used the stars to build their tombs and temples. We continue to visit early Arabic astronomers, scientists and rulers, before finally travelling all the way back to the present day and look down on Earth from the edge of space.
We’re coming pretty close to the end of the project, watching all the pieces fall neatly into place!
Here’s a couple of screen shots:
Exploring an Arabic celestial sphere in an Alexandrian library.
We take to the skies in this pioneering flight down the Nile.
Paddle steamers on the Mahmudiyah Canal.
A future launch shuttle blasts off into space.
An Egyptian astronaut looks towards Earth from the international space station.
We’re also working on several other large projects for the museum, updates to follow soon.
February 2, 2011 2:45 pm
A little while back we made a promotional video for our good friends over at Global Immersion. It takes a look at what immersive solutions they have to offer and you even get a sneak peek at some of our content on the dome. The incredibly dramatic music is by Rhian Sheehan, the musician for We Are Astronomers. We’re really pleased with how it turned out and we’d love to hear your comments on it.
11:35 am
NSC Creative attended their first ASTC conference in October on the beautiful Island of Hawaii, hosted by the Bishop museum.
This was the first time NSC Creative had attended an ASTC conference. ASTC was founded in 1973 and now has more than 540 members in 40 countries. Science Centre and Museum Members include not only science-technology centres and science museums, but also: nature centres, aquariums, planetariums, zoos, botanical gardens, space theatres, and natural history and children’s museums; this again giving the team further opportunity to offer content to new markets.
It provided an excellent opportunity to find out about other institutions and get feedback on its productions and was a great platform for new content ideas and finding out what NSC Creative customers really want to see.
We then travelled to Hilo, (the big island) for the world’s largest Fulldome festival held at the Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii.
The festival had 52 full length shows – the largest amount of content at a dome festival to date. Participants came from over 11 countries around the globe. Participants were a mix of Fulldome distributors, key decision makers looking to purchase new content from the Fulldome industry as well as our competitors / other film producers.
The selection of shows ranged from films that are standard features, 3D programs, children’s programming, large format film conversions, and unique individual films.
The festival is a great chance to evaluate and preview content as well as looking at what is new and also see how the content is received by a live audience. All shows submitted are voted on by a board of experts and, more importantly, the general public. The team was delighted to pick up an award at this event for best script for “We Are Astronomers”.
The festival gave NSC Creative the opportunity to evaluate any gaps in the market for content and information share with other film producers on a variety of industry related topics. The team had interest in some of its show licenses, which it is hoping to convert to sales.
October 8, 2010 1:11 pm
Life was hard. Life was dark, windowless and claustrophobic. A core group of CG Artists confined to a small, dark studio. Oh how things have changed.
Well it’s been really great to get out of that place! To move to a larger, lighter and – I must say – cleaner studio. This time we have windows and natural light and all seems well with the world! The move also accommodated the arrival of four new members of our creative team who seem to be settling in nicely. The team has grown, the studio has up-scaled and morale has been boosted!
These are truly good times.
Here’s a big warm welcome to our new team members: Mathew Galley, Les Davis, Liam Wardle and Ian Smith. Enjoy the madness!
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.
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