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The Marcus Rashford Wall of Hope: An Educational Resource is now officially live! www.marcusrashfordresource.co.uk
Created by MBD with Manchester Libraries and Withington Walls, this interactive digital resource brings together 100 items from the Marcus Rashford Mural Tributes archive!

Image of a 3d object in unreal engine with text that reads Getting Started with Digital 3D, Wed 4 Feb | 6–9pm, Mansfield museum book your place now: https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events

Getting Started with Digital 3D | Workshop is coming up next week at Mansfield Museum!
Guided by the expert team of MBD, you will gain an understanding of the essential tools, software, and processes used by 3D designers.
👉 Book your place now:
www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
#DigitalWorkshops

New Digital Workshops at Mansfield Museum!
Join us for a series of hands-on digital creative workshops this February and March. Whether you’re curious about 3D, gaming, or AI, these sessions are all about learning new skills and experimenting with emerging tech.
👉 www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events

Scanning, shooting, testing.. repeat! 😆

Here's a peek at the team experimenting with virtual production using some of the 3D environments scanned in the past couple of months.

#MBD #InnovateUK #3DScanning #VirtualProduction #BTS

Behind the scenes at the MBD studio as the team works on real environment scans for virtual production.

#MBD #InnovateUK #CreateGrowth #3DScanning #VirtualProduction

Don’t miss Neurodiverse Futures at Mansfield Museum!
This immersive digital exhibition, created by MBD in collaboration with Mansfield Museum, Spectrum WASP, and Nottingham Trent University, celebrates the creativity and imagination of autistic and neurodivergent young people.
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It’s been a real pleasure working with Mansfield Museum to install 'Neurodiverse Futures', a free, large-scale digital art installation that brings creative contributions of autistic and neurodivergent young people to life.
📅 From 9 January 2026, 6pm
📍 Baily Gallery, Mansfield Museum & Art Gallery

A look back at everything we built in 2025. ✨
Now we’re stepping into #2026 with exciting new projects and challenges ahead.
Curious about how we collaborate to bring stories to life through projections, VR, and game engine technology?
👉 Get in touch at info@mbd.limited, we’d love to chat!

#MBD

Happy New Year from the MBD team, and welcome to a new year full of new projects! ✨ 🎉

#2026 #NewYear

Mansfield Museum in collaboration with MBD, Spectrum WASP and Nottingham Trent University present ‘Neurodiverse Futures’, a large-scale digital art installation created with autistic and neurodivergent young people.
Details on: www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/homep...

The MBD team wishes you a Merry Christmas! 🎄

May your day be filled with warmth, happiness, and time well spent with loved ones. 🎁✨

#Christmas #MBD #MerryChristmas

✨ 2025 MBD Highlights: The Great Leicester Ghost Hunt
We loved bringing Leicester’s spookiest stories to life this Halloween! Commissioned by BID Leicester, the ghost hunt combined projections and digital effects to transform the city into an immersive, city-wide adventure.
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More images from the interactive digital resource inspired by the #MarcusRashford mural. Created in collaboration with The Space Arts, Manchester Libraries and Withington Walls, it allows exploring archive material and reflecting on the community’s powerful response to the Euro 2020 vandalism.

✨ 2025 MBD Highlights: Infinite Museum
It was fantastic working with Storytellers NPO to bring immersive skills to Spalding for both young people and artists.
Their creativity and collaboration helped shape the multi-person co-location VR experience that launched in August 2025 at Ayscoughfee Hall.

Experience the full breathtaking projection from Light Up Leicester 2025, as the city's cathedral is transformed into a canvas of light, history, and imagination. Titled "Cathedral, Culture, and… Cathedral, Culture & Crown: Light Up Leicester 2025 Full Projection Showcase by MBD

✨ 2025 MBD Highlights
As we approach the end of the year, we’re looking back at some of the incredible projects that shaped our 2025!
First up: Light Up Leicester! Our large-scale projection “Cathedral, Culture & Crown” illuminated Leicester Cathedral in all its glory.
youtu.be/yrtYr5_k7hk

Who knew we’d learn teleportation at MBD?! 😂
Testing, testing… and teleporting!
Our Innovate UK project has the whole team deep in R&D mode, and apparently, they are discovering new superpowers along the way. 🚀🎬

#MBD #VP #VirtualProduction #InnovateUK #CreateGrowth #3Dscanning

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In collaboration with Pedestrian we are launching a new opportunity from January 2026 for young people!
If you are not in education, employment or training and want to learn how to take a game from the first idea all the way to launch, this is for you!
📌 Leicester
Sign up www.pedestrian.info/apply/

Year 2 of Infinite Museum is finally here! ✨
We’re thrilled to continue our collaboration with Storytellers as we dive into another exciting year of activities at Sutton-on-Sea!
With support from local partners, we’ll be offering immersive skill workshops for young people and artists.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’re sharing Mayflower Reflections, a 360°/VR short film that revisits the Mayflower voyage and helps us reflect on what freedom, hope, and community mean today.
Want to bring this immersive experience to your event with VR headsets?
Contact us at info@mbd.limited.

With our #InnovateUK project already full on, we’re teaming up with some local partners!
Intrepid Media will help us shape and validate everything so it’s polished and ready for the commercial world, while Bulb Studios will craft a targeted campaign to get our work seen and spark real engagement.

Honoured to help celebrate the impact of the #MarcusRashford mural in Manchester. With The Space, Manchester Libraries and Withington Walls, we’re building a #Unity-powered interactive experience that lets visitors explore the mural and dive into the archive.

Definitely it is, even for our team! 😄

We’re hiring!
MBD is looking for a 3-month fixed-term #UnrealEngine developer, working on-site in #Leicester.
#VirtualProduction experience is welcome, but strong #Blueprintskills matter most.
To find out more or register your interest, contact us at info@mbd.limited

At MBD we experiment a lot until the setup is just right!
With our #InnovateUK project underway, it’s been all about testing, iterating and pushing the limits of #VirtualProduction while having fun!
If you are a production company or video content producer exploring VP, let’s connect!

Our team is working hard to learn and refine the skills needed for our Innovate UK project, On-locAItion!
From experimenting with scanners to building in Unreal Engine and testing green screen setups, every step brings us closer to reimagining how film production happens. 🎬

We had an incredible time at #AestheticaShortFilmFestival, attending insightful sessions and joining the VR Roundtable, where we shared our insights as passionate immersive storytellers.
Thank you again to Aesthetica Short Film Festival for selecting our VR short film Steel Town Tales!

MBD has been awarded a grant from #InnovateUK as part of the #CreateGrowth Programme!
This will support the development of On-LocAItion, an innovative AI-assisted pipeline for scanning 3D environments for cost-effective #VirtualProduction.
Thank you @innovateuk.bsky.social

We were delighted to join the celebrations for Exploring Tech, Expanding Worlds with Blackpool Libraries last week!
This project brought together local young people, artist Joseph Doubtfire, and writer Maria Montunrayo to tell the story of an alien girl’s visit to Blackpool using virtual reality.

🎉 Exciting news from MBD! Our VR short film, #PaintToPixel VR has been officially selected for the Nottingham Film Festival 2025! 🥳
Catch in-person screenings and events in Nottingham from November 3rd–9th, 2025.
We can’t wait to share this immersive experience with the audience in Nottingham!

Have you already met the ghosts hunting Leicester city centre this Halloween? 👀
Meet the rest of the ghostly gang lurking along the #GhostHunt…💀
Pick up a trail map from the Visit Leicester Information Centre, or follow the trail on the My Leicester App.

📆 20 Oct to 2 Nov