NSC Creative
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- Founded
- 2000
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About NSC Creative
NSC Creative is a British computer animation and immersive storytelling studio based in Leicester, England. Founded in 2000 as the National Space Centre’s in-house digital production team, it creates films and experiences for planetariums, science centres, museums and visitor attractions. Its work combines science communication, entertainment and cultural storytelling across fulldome cinema, stereoscopic 3D and virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
The studio develops original media and commissioned productions, taking projects from concept generation and scriptwriting through spatial storyboarding, animation and delivery. Its production capabilities include CG characters and environments, volumetric live capture, stereoscopic visual effects and assets for real-time engines. Alongside screen-based work, it designs interactive museum exhibitions and immersive attraction experiences, including physical sets and simulator-based storytelling.
Films and immersive experiences
Its planetarium catalogue includes We Are Stars, an immersive science documentary voiced by Andy Serkis; Back to the Moon for Good, commissioned for the Google Lunar XPRIZE and narrated by Tim Allen; and We Are Astronomers, narrated by David Tennant. Other productions explore the Apollo missions, Earth’s ecosystems and potential human journeys to Mars.
Entertainment and cultural projects include the official 50th-anniversary fulldome experience for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, developed in collaboration with Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis and Pink Floyd. Its room-scale VR documentary Vestige, directed by Aaron Bradbury, uses volumetric storytelling in an experience that audiences can explore spatially. The studio has also produced bespoke cultural dome films and independent short-form spatial work.
Production and distribution
NSC Creative licenses and distributes fulldome and VR films internationally for domes of different sizes. It also provides immersive audiovisual consulting, system specification, testbed screening and hardware/software integration, connecting content production with the requirements of specialist projection environments.
The studio operates as an internal production business unit, with commercial operations administered through NSSC Operations Limited within the National Space Centre charity.
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Leadership
The report identifies Paul Mowbray as Director and Max Crow as Creative Director.
Production infrastructure
The studio has on-site CPU and GPU render farms, high-bandwidth collaborative networking and a 3-metre stereoscopic 3D development dome. It also has direct access to the 18-metre Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium, equipped with an 8K, 60fps, ten-projector RGB-laser system.
Distribution and operating model
The report states that the studio’s films have been licensed to more than 1,000 venues across 70 countries and translated into over 25 languages. Commercial surpluses support the parent charity’s science communication mission.
Training
In 2021, the studio established the NSC Immersive Academy with Leicester College. The partnership offers vocational BTEC qualifications in Immersive Design & Development and practical learning through a Reality Lab.
Recognition
One Step Beyond: A Journey to Mars received the 2026 JANUS Award for Best Science show at the Jena FullDome Festival. Vestige was selected by Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW; those selections are distinct from awards.
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Where NSC Creative is based
- National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Space City, Leicester, LE4 5NS, United KingdomLeicester, England, United Kingdom
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HeadquartersSole operating premises and global production headquarters.
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