How Arcane Will Destroy Netflix Animation

[@bend316]

How do you think Arcane will change Netflix Animation. Let me know here!

[@_MicZ_]

I think you made 1 major mistake in this video: Netflix didn't pay 250 million for Arcane, that was the cost for Riot Games for 2 seasons including that 60 million for advertising. Netflix only payed for streaming rights (allegedly 3 million per episode for season 2). I agree with you that Arcane is great and sets new standards, but the reason it is great is 100% Riot Games and Fortiche (=animation studio). Netflix is just the streaming partner to distribute it. Riot games has more projects like Arcane planned for the future and my guess is that the streaming rights will probably be (a lot) higher for the next one 🙂 ...

[@bend316]

Even though Netflix didn't directly pay for it, I believe Arcane will still be the benchmark for all animated series going forward, whether they are producing or distributing. Netflix will still look at that budget and use it as a benchmark. Netflix will still use those viewership numbers as a benchmark. So even though they are just a distributor on this, it will still have lasting damage. At least in my opinion

[@_MicZ_]

@@bend316 I think Netflix will be realistic. They know the standard production/animation studios don't have the same deep pockets as Riot games and won't be able to fund taking 6 years for season 1 and 3 years for season 2 for a show. I don't believe Netflix themselves would ever fund a > 5 year production. Also, most companies that don't use a show as advertisement for a game will not be OK with losing ~7 million per episode. What I hope is that Arcane inspires more creative writing and animation and acknowledgement that good things take time. None of that is based in reality though 🙂.

[@bend316]

@ haha yeah I love that you’re an optimist but with their past behaviors I just don’t have much hope and they do have a behavior of spending money for years and have nothing to show for it. For instance they gave the director of 47 ronin 55 mil and they never got an episode from that. But we’ll see. I hope good things come, but I don’t have much faith. But you’ll keep the faith for all of us