FAQ

Ask three architects to design a house and you’ll get three very different suggestions. Creative briefs also often leave room for interpretation and enthusiastic ideas.

The best way to look at price differences is not in the total budget but in the hourly or day rates each agency provides. That is what you should compare.

If our proposal costs more than you had in mind, tell us. We may have imagined something more elaborate than you need.

Of course. It’s often easier to work out the budget once you’ve talked through what you want to do.

Bring us the idea as it stands. We can help you think it through and add arguments and ideas to make it easier for you to explain it to the colleagues who need to approve it. We’re happy to meet for a coffee or talk on Teams. There’s no invoice for that.

We’d like to hear about it. There’s quite a distance between subsea engineering, scientific journal covers and games for children, and we’ve enjoyed working with all of them.

We’re curious people. Getting to understand a new subject is a large part of what we enjoy about the job. Tell us what you’re trying to do, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we think we can help.

Yes, we do that regularly. Sometimes an agency needs help with animation or film. Other times it’s the technical understanding or development work they need us for.

We know the client relationship matters. We won’t go behind your back or try to poach your client. If you’d like references from agencies we work with who trust us with their clients on a regular basis, just ask.

Yes. We’ve worked with clients around the world and invoiced in a range of currencies. Different time zones are something we’re used to arranging our work around.

We’ve taken projects from bare concrete to finished visitor experiences more than once. We develop the ideas and content, make the interactive experiences and work with the designers and builders needed to build the space.

We can also make contributions for an exhibition you already have to improve the visitor experience.

If you’re starting from scratch, involve us early. Our experience will add value to the first and most basic choices that are made.

We’ll need to learn about your particular technology, but you can use the proper terminology with us. We’ve spent more than twenty years working with industrial and scientific subjects, from seismic exploration and subsea systems to biology and space science.

We’ll ask about the things we need to understand and check the details with your specialists.

If you’re worried that a sentence like “This VLCC was converted to an FPSO and is tie-backed to subsea via umbilicals and manifolds to extend the operational life of the well” would confuse us, you can rest assured that it won’t.

In fact, we could hit the ground running with that.

Yes. We regularly work on projects we can’t show or talk about. We have agreements prepared by lawyers in Norwegian and English, or we can review yours. We can get that sorted before you send us anything confidential.

We use AI for research, early drafts and some of the technical work behind a production. We don’t use AI-generated creative content in the finished work we deliver. If AI helps us write code, that code has to be reviewed and tested.

Your confidential material stays in approved local environments. It doesn’t go into external AI services. That applies to everyone working on the project, including anyone we bring in.

You can read the full AI policy here.

Yes. We can use them as a starting point for the animation. The models usually need some preparation, so it helps if we can look at a sample and know what you want to show.

If the files are confidential, we can sign an NDA before you send them. We don’t upload them to external AI services.

Yes. We develop VR and simulator training, and work with your technical and HSE specialists on what the crew needs to practise.

That might mean getting familiar with equipment before using it, rehearsing an operation or working through what happened in an incident. If you already have headsets or other training equipment, let us know so we can take that into account from the start.