Netflix's new series, Arcane, impresses its viewers with its setting, its scale, and its poignancy so that both fans and non-fans of the original League of Legends can relish this masterpiece. And it's no wonder that the series quickly jumped to Netflix's top becoming the most-watched English-language show in November.
This giant success strongly influenced the boost of Fortiche, a French animation studio that created Animation and Cinematics for Riot Games. According to Alexis Wanneroy, a lead animator on the show, the studio initially employed around 15 people seven years ago and as the work on the Arcane project was progressing, the staff increased to about 300 employees.
As Wanneroy mentioned in a recent iAnimate.net podcast, it is crucial to Fortiche that the three owners and founders – Pascal Charrue, Jérôme Combe, and Arnaud Delord – “are all artists.” Previously working as a Supervising Animator at Dreamworks, Wanneroys notes that the larger studios like Dreamworks tend to "please more audience and stuff" rather than listen to the voice of artists. "If they trusted artists more [with] the design, the appeal, it would have changed a lot of things," speculates the animator.
