Back to three speakers, with Stop Motion, Motion Design, Animation and 3D Sculpting all covered. We even squeezed in the England game!

Our biggest one yet. Two days with over 25 speakers and events at Manchester's Freight Island. Check out all the speakers here.

Amy travelled over from Yorkshire to give us the background on her design work for DJ's. And FIELD flew over from Berlin to update us on their amazing studio.

A night of contrasting styles. The amazing illustration and colour of Qian, and the mind blowing detail and authenticity of the work of Revenant, as told to us by Founder Kev.

Inspiring pinks, greens, aardman and music from Gavin. And the incredible detail and craft of 3D sculpting with Vimal.

Our biggest event yet. A full day with over 10 speakers + workshops. It was epic! See who we had on it's own page here.

Amazing VfX Breakdowns + colourful 3D shapes and designs all the way from Hamburg.

A wonderful night from the Madrid studio, NotReal + Art&Graft return. Also memorably finished with the England v Holland match. A Motion North first (and probably last!).

After nearly a decade since their last visit, Cub came back to fill us in on what’s been happening since. And joining them were the German Motion Design studio, Sehsucht.

Our first ever ‘none visual’ speaker came in the form of the amazing sound designers Zelig. Also joining us were Joel Lewis & Chris Mullany from the Universal Everything Collective.

Flying in from Spain, Niceshit brought the team to let us into how and why they work how they do. Dada Projects also joined us; a female first motiondesign studio.

A great combo of animation skills from Moth, as well as the superb Houdini inspired 3D motion skills of XK.

A fascinating insite into the experimentation at Found, plus behind the scenes of the making of Paddington by Blue Zoo.

Our first IRL event since Covid, and our first at our amazing new home, Band on the Wall. Balasz from Blinkink took us through his BBC Winter Olympics journey, and we also heard the story behind animation studio The Line.

Our final Youtube event brought together the amazing experimental Builders club, alongside Stephen from Art&Graft.
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A busy event, again streamed live, with two lovely animation studios. Lobster and Wednesday.
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Two Studios who are at the forefront of Live projected event graphics. A fascinating look into a real craft in our industry.
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Famous for his titles design, Felipe Carvalho was joined by the original Motion North speaker, David from Territory Studio.
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The beauty of the online Motion North’s was the ability to speak with two artists from the USA. GMUNK and Beeple Crap, just ahead of his famous NFTs sale. The second of our Covid sessions.
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The first one we had to do Online during the Covid pandemic. Studio AKA and We Are Seventeen did not dissapoint.
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Woodwork flew over to join us from their cool studio in Amsterdam + a fascinating look at movng brands from Dixon Baxi.

Behind the scenes of a tapestry animation, and a look at how Brown Bag run large scale animations.

Territory Studio returned to give us an update, and Barry Purves joined to tell us about his career.

Momoco are famed for their work on TV & Film titles. A+C took us into the world of stop motion, even bringing some characters for us to play with.

A visual feast of two studios at the top of their VFX game.

Local animation house Studio Liddell joined by the power directing duo, Smith & Foulkes, on a balmy evening in Manchester.

Our first (and only, so far) triple header. London, Manchester & the Helsinki studio Boutique.

James from ETC took us through the making of their First Great Western commercial, alongside the superb local boys, Flipbook.

Our final event in our amazing space at Code was a fittingly digital explorer studio, FIELD.

Man V (as they're known) shouldn't need any introduction. This was a hot and steamy, and inspiring night, in the attic at the offices of Code.

Mike Moloney, Founder of A&G, joined us for the first of what will turn out to be many trips, to tell us about their fabulous studio.

Tom from Blue Zoo joined us for the first of two visits to Manchester by one of the UK's finest.

The last of our cellar meetings at 2022NQ. No speaker, just some work, and a few beers. That's how it use to roll.

Hand drawn wonder, with the amazing Golden Wolf.

Grant Gilbert joined us to tell us about his journey from The Big Breakfast, to Bears on Stairs!

A look at facial capture technology. In films and in games.

The first visit by some of our favourite animators, Cub Studio. Still in a basement bar, Fraser gave us the lowdown on his style of work, and building the studio.

The first Motion North guest speaker. David Sheldon-Hicks of Territory Studio.

The beginning. A few Motion Designers and Animators meet in a pub….