This depository consists 8 animations showing the temporal evolution of the eight numerical modeling experiments presented in the manuscript titled "The influence of accretionary orogenesis on subsequent rift dynamics - Animations and data assembly" by Zoltán Erdős, Susanne Buiter and Joya Tetreault currently under revision at the Solid Earth. Additionally, the following .mat (matlab native format) output files are provided for each of these models containing the following fields: materials, viscosity, temperature, x, y, vx, vy where x and y are nodal locations, vx and vy are nodal velocities. Materials and temperature are given in nodal coordinate system while viscosity is given in an elemental coordinate system.The modelling experiments were run with the 2D Arbitrary Lagrangean-Eulerean Finite Element geodynamic numerical code SULEC v.4.