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Officially closed as of 2025. but giz a follow for old bts, seeing what it was all about and what we get up to after.

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Thank you so much to everyone for the kind words on our previous post. It's heartening to know we've had some impact on the region, and further afield, over the last few years.

As many of you know, Arcus was driven by a will to create new routes into an industry that is vastly underrepresented in the North East. Too many talented people were either having to relocate to get a foot on a professional ladder, moving long distances away from support networks for a first professional credits - often battling an internship culture that disproportionately favoured the wealthy and resourced, or, were faced with forgetting their ambitions altogether.

The drive to create something that could facilitate the talented people in the region is what kept Arcus going, especially Michael - our only born and bred North Eastern director and stalwart advocate for baldies across Tyneside - so, although we should not forget how difficult the current environment is, especially for newcomers, we wanted to celebrate the people we've worked with over the years, the incredibly talented folk without whom Arcus could not have existed, without whom Arcus would not have been such a nice place to be.

Staff, freelancers, collaborators, and work experience-ers - you're all lush. To list all of your names here would take forever, and there are so many of you that manifest the modest, camera shy creative, that we can't find your faces in our rogues gallery - you know who you are.

Thanks to you all, we've shared laughs, anxieties, and learned so much from every one of you. A perfect cup of tea shall forever be made with reverence to He Man's skin tone, the Jurassic Park theme tune will always be hummed with the words "I'm a Dinosaur, I'm a Dinosaur", 'nerd clamps' will be issued, board games at lunch time remain the ideal, late night /early morning Karaoke will continue to exist in the quantum realm of being both the funniest thing in the world and the most terrible decision ever made, and finally, that although opportunity is currently tight, talent, imagination and hard work is everywhere. Its been a privilege to know you all, thank you, thank you, thank you... for everything! by @arcusstudios

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a year ago

After a very difficult few years for the animation industry, and fifteen years after founding Arcus Animation Studios, we're sad to officially announce that our doors have closed.

Well, we're sad, yes, but we also don't want to lose sight of what has been achieved. When we founded Arcus back in 2010, and landed a job to turn CBBC's Hacker and Dodge into a short cartoon series, we had no idea that it was the beginning of a sometimes rocky, but always fulfilling, fifteen years long journey.

Since then, Arcus has created short and long form work for broadcast and streaming, large scale multimedia arts events, immersive domes, collaborated with artists, dancers, actors, musicians, technicians, programmers, and set up community animation groups for the region's children, and networks for professional animators and artists.

In 2010 the agenda of austerity that particularly hit the North East, was but a glint in an Eton boy's eye. Arcus had a main goal of providing the North East's animators with a new platform for employment, to perfect their craft, gain experience, and provide a reason to remain in the region… to train and retain.

We're incredibly proud to have been the first step in many people’s fledgling careers, people that have gone on to work on some of the most iconic children's properties in the world, create industry shifting community initiatives - and most importantly, that are just really canny.

Over the next few days and weeks we'll be posting out a few of our highlights from the past fifteen years, talking about the fantastic staff and collaborators we've worked with, and finally setting a date and venue for a farewell Arcus Partaeeee. by @arcusstudios

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a year ago

Today's drawing challenge involved drawing 2D generalist Iky for his 27th birthday 🎈 Happy birthday Iky have an amazing day🎂🎉 by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Check out Sue Venir! Sue was the main character in our 22 episode Geography series for BBC Teach and was probably one our most advanced After Effects rigs!

#characterart #animationart #NorthEastanimation #animationagency #arcusanimationstudio #newcastle #animatorslife #NorthEast #animation #arcusanimation #animation2d #northeast #animationvideo #arcus #northeastengland #animationstudio #animations #aftereffect #aftereffects #aftereffectsedit #aftereffectsproject #aftereffectsanimation #rig #animationrigs #animationrig #animationrigging #animationrigger by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Happy Bank Holiday! Todays all about having fun and relaxing with your friends and family. Check out this clip from Myotopia, you can check out the full animation on our website.
Link in Bio.

#newcastle #animation #northeastengland #arcusanimationstudio #NorthEast #northeast #animations #animationart #arcus #animation2d #animationvideo #characterart #animationagency #arcusanimation #NorthEastanimation #animatorslife #animationstudio #2024 #bankholiday #bankholidayfun #bankholidays #bankholidayvibes by @arcusstudios

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May the 4th be with you! Happy international Star wars day fellow nerds! To celebrate 2D generalist Iky drew Luke inspired by the style of the Galaxy of Adventures shorts

#NorthEast #NorthEastanimation #animation2d #animationvideo #animationagency #northeastengland #animationart #animations #animation #animatorslife #characterart #northeast #arcus #animationstudio #animationdesign #arcusanimationstudio #arcusanimation #newcastle #northeastexport #fanart #fandom #fantasy #starwars #starwarsday #StarWarsDay #starwarsfan #starwarsnerd #may4th #may4th2024 #may4thbewithyou by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Arcus Founder Mike is attending the second annual Get Animated Conference. If you see him make sure to say hello! by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Recording video reference for animation is a great way to understand weight, real-world physics and key poses. This isn't what we were doing James just decided to lay down so we started recording. by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Tomorrow Project Manager Courtney and 2D Generalist Animator Iky will be heading down to North East Expo. We had a little trouble when booking the tickets so if you see a incredibly tall person in a trench coat sneaking around, we assure you they are not suspicious and you should network with them. See you all tomorrow!

#animatorslife #animationart #northeast #arcusanimationstudio #animationagency #animationdesign #NorthEast #animationstudio #animations #arcusanimation #arcus #northeastengland #animation2d #newcastle
#northeastexpo #northeastexpos #northeastexport #northeastexposure by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

Happy St George's day!

Check the link to learn a bit more about St George in this animation for BBC Teach. Part of a series about various saints! Watch the full thing on the BBC Teach YouTube channel or BBC Teach website

#animationart #characterart #northeastengland #arcusanimation #northeast #newcastle #animationstudio #animationdesign #NorthEast #animation2d #characterdesign #arcus #NorthEastanimation #animationagency #arcusanimationstudio #animationvideo #animations #animation #animatorslife #episode #motiondesign #stgeorge #StGeorgesDay #stgeorgesday #myths #mythsfacts #mythsandfacts #mythsandlegends #ledgends #ledgends by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

April 2024 marks 100 years of BBC Educational content. To celebrate this occasion here is a look back on some of our BBC Educational Projects by @arcusstudios

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2 years ago

This weeks drawing challenge was to create a protagonist based on the Easter Bunny.

Vince nailed the challenge with the DND inspired character design!

We hope you all have an egg-stra special Easter.

#animationart #characterdesign #characterart #animationagency #newcastle #arcus #animationdesign #arcusanimation #NorthEastanimation #animationstudio #NorthEast #northeast #animation2d #northeastengland #arcusanimationstudio #easter #easteregg #easterbunny #dnd #dndart #dndcharacter by @arcusstudios

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