What $250,000,000 Animation Looks Like

[@deadmanslastwish]

Its not just about the money. These artist really cares and the director have ambition and vision.

[@vijaz5559]

Yes, when a company bankrupt themselves for our enjoyment (not riot, I meant the animation studio). i hope more company do this

[@willg1088]

Well disney mcu puts insane amount of money in their projects but they end up terrible and the GCI looks like from 80s

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

​@@willg1088Because their rushed asf. They rush their animators and everything.

[@Xerclipse]

youre right, its not about the money, its about sending a message

[@Naxiwuno]

@@willg1088 Because they aiming for quantity not that much on quality.

[@ConfusedOwl92]

Best thing Riot have ever done.

[@FrankGrossel]

Edit 3: Many people were very upset with my comment, which leads me to entirely remove it. In said comment, I said that "Riot simpy funded Arcane (along doing other things)", while pointing out that, technically, Fortiche produced Arcane. Even though Fortiche being the producers is a fact, as they animated the show, I made the mistake of downplaying Riots work. My comment made it sound like Riot didn't do more than funding the show. The whole comment wasn't thougt out, which was reflected in other commentors responses. (Edit 2: Adressing my initial comment in regards to its wording; As I have come to understand over the course of reading replies to my comment, saying that they simply funded Arcane isn't enough. They built the foundations on which Arcane is based. In addition, Alex Yee (creative designer) and Christian Linke (TV writer), the creators of Arcane, both work at Riot. In spite of this, I have heard that Riot executives were against the shows production on at least one occasion. I do not know if that is actually true. Nevertheless, due to my personal conception of creative work, I advocate for (mainly) praising the workers and creative individuals who worked on Arcane for the product we got instead of a singular company. This includes people at Riot and Fortiche Oh, and Riot is responsible for the genuine banger soundtrack we got in S2 act 1)

[@iDrexcy]

​@FrankGrossel Riot did a lot more than just fund it. Fortiche animated but Rioters were in charge of directing and producing it, as well as hiring everyone for everything else

[@FrankGrossel]

​@@iDrexcy My bad. While I'd say that Fortiche is responsible for Arcanes visual fidelity and narrative appeal (Edit: by which I mean the presentation. My wording could've used some adjustments), the project in its entirety ofc amounts to more than that. Sry for my reductiveness. I do, however, believe that Arcane wasn't made by Riot alone. Edit: Fortiche is the oficial producer though

[@mochumirmir]

@@iDrexcyif u guys want a in-depth answer to this then watch arcane bridging the rift (its a behind the scenes series of how the show was made, extremely interesting and 1000% worth watch)

[@WadivoYT]

​@@FrankGrossel but did you know that riot owns the studio?

[@gameblox3892]

“I will not spoil scenes.” *proceeds to spoil episode three’s climax

[@Biggiecheese20]

Can't be surprised really, if you're trying to avoid spoilers it's best to avoid any arcane video in general xP

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

They didn’t really spoil it, everyone knew they were going to separate

[@DBT1007]

spoilmaxxing

[@astPred]

you are watching a video about how good arcane's animations are, of course your going to see memorable and stand out animations, what do you expect

[@gameblox3892]

I didn’t get spoiled since I had the foresight to watch the episodes before going on the internet. But it’s just disingenuous to say you wont spoil shit and then Proceed to spoil shit

[@mr_0n10n5]

I swear, Arcane did not need to spend that much on Marketing. I never saw one ad for season 2 then resubscribed to Netflix as soon as I heard it was out.

[@aliyahsulaiman11]

That’s true. I never noticed it.

[@erickvallee2548]

well it counts a lot of things ( those i know of are : displate collab , irl promotions, media promotion like instagram ) there's probably way more that played a role. it's 30million per season in advertisings , while movies don't even count it in their budget so if we take the spiderverse exemple the production cost doesnt count advertising like riot counts it .

[@rice_frying_shrimp]

a lot of that also goes into advertising in the game itself, so people who don't play League only get a small percentage of the marketing because they are not the primary target demographic...

[@vijaz5559]

you're a weird dumb one. most people wouldn't do that lol

[@eduardstefan6833]

It might not for you but for people who don't know about league marketing is quite important.

[@dagdamor1]

A quarter of a billion sounds like a lot, but when you consider that for that same amount, Hollywood gives us 90-100 minutes of aggressively mid film, BEFORE the marketing budget even kicks in... Fortiche and Riot giving us 360 minutes of peak fiction is a BARGAIN in comparison.

[@delimelone]

The main thing to consider is that people cost a lot of money. Most people will only watch movies that have famous names tied to it and the actors know this and thus can charge unbelievable sums for their roles.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

So this audience is to be blamed as well​@@delimelone

[@roychen5235]

There have only been 25 films with budgets more than 250 million, and only 1 was less than 2 hours (120 minutes long) and it's Tangled at 100 minutes.

[@roychen5235]

@@delimelone Hollywood movies don't actually "cost" as much to the company as they often look. Actors are part of the bigger upfront cost. But usually big movies film somewhere with around 20% tax rebate off the back (Tbf, arcane also got subsidies from the French government), and then at least half of the budget costs is in pre and post production usually done with production companies owned by the studio. If the production companies are independent they usually front some of the cost, or they attach actors usually for less up front and more of the profits. That's not even mentioning creative hollywood accounting.

[@qdaniele97]

​@@delimeloneBut is the same with hollywood animation movies. And even if they were to pick very famous voice actors for a couple of roles, overall they don't cost that much. But the movie still ends up consting a huge amount of money, or be garbage, or both.

[@GameManCZ2000]

250mil$ including marketing. 12 hours worth of content. Its like 6 movies for 250mil. Compare this with hollywood budget.

[@aliyahsulaiman11]

They were no marketing only trailers and posts.

[@GameManCZ2000]

@ they said that matketing was included in 250mil budget.

[@erickvallee2548]

@@aliyahsulaiman11 there's collab ( i know of displate ), irl stuff , instragam post and probably more ( dunno if there was cinema session ). but yeah lets split the 60m for both season to 30 m this season, 30 m ain't a lot for a show this big and yet it still hits big audience

[@statixfear]

Netflix reportedly paid them $3M per episode. Tencent also paid them another $3M (presumably a one and done lumpsum amount). So that's $57M total funding that's not Riot Game's own money. $193M investment of their own money is crazy, when you think about it. Then again, Arcane is practically the world's most expensive ad for League of Legends, as well as their other games attached to the brand. They'll probably make back that amount in due time.

[@GameManCZ2000]

@@statixfear people gotta understand now why they make some skins for whales. 193mil$ cost them to make Arcane. Lets not forget musicians. Almost 30+ musicians right? Im pretty sure Imagine dragons and linkin park are not cheap, talk about the rest. Lets not forget they also make music outside Arcane. KDA, Pentakill and more. Oh what about Valorant? Dont be angry when they make expensive skins because we get content for free.

[@MrCruzDanii]

"Don't wanna show any spoilers", shows Cait's mom in a casket minutes later.

[@Blorxian-hater]

I mean it would be obvious she died at the end of season 1

[@MrCruzDanii]

@@Blorxian-hater season 1 didn't confirmed, season 2 did

[@CalculusDaddy]

Yeah, a true spoiler would be that [redacted] survived 😅

[@inoble8133]

@@CalculusDaddy😂

[@litterbox019]

for me the spoiler is you saying who those people are also spoiling the fact that he spoils the show later in the video is also kinda

[@WallNutBreaker524]

Live Action: ❌ Animation: ✅

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Always, fiction works best with its fictional self, trying to "real life" or "live action" everything is not gonna work for most things

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

Fr! I hate live action!!!

[@skelet8337]

​@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatmanyep I have never understood why studios try so hard to force an animated source into live action it will aways end mediocre or bad.

[@MW-bs1nb]

@@skelet8337 yeah, i will always prefer animated series over live action ones especially when the source material is fictional and sort of animated/drawn or whatever itself, one piece actually did a pretty nice job as the very first live action series that finally came out well and i'm actually waiting for the 2nd season but overall you can say, why wasting ressources in a bad mediocre live action instead of investing them in more high quality animated stuff

[@zenzenitha]

Even those so called "live action" relies on animation. Spewing money grab titles by making live action version of animation title and STILL ended up with heavily animated Frankenstein

[@EverythingAwesome777]

250 million dollars, worth every dollar best thing i've ever watched

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

Fr it's the best show I've ever seen 😂

[@azizkash286]

Give the animators a raise. Riot games should be very proud of their animators because they got the best animators in the business hands down

[@FocusedCat]

Riot gave something better than a raise. Creative liberty and job security. 2022, riot bought non controlling stakes in fortiche. Fortiche did confirm in an interview that because of riot, they're set for 10 years without them being told what to do.

[@stephaniegalliart859]

@@FocusedCat Yeah agreed. Give them job security. Riot has been hiring for AI researcher positions lately, I 100% support all the production workers strikes going on everywhere. Enough is enough, people shouldn't have to bounce around from studio to studio every time a project wraps up, and then have their work fed into a joblessness-making machine.

[@conorcobalt4624]

riot animators did not make arcane, fortiche did.

[@derickenitan]

When they played heavy is the crown in the first episode that sent me 😩

[@TimmahExplosion]

Same

[@kauanjos3199]

Legit nowaying

[@drezarom3627]

could now say the money's worth

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

Fr

[@LaNoir.]

they know how to recycle content🤌

[@randomman5592]

If you think this show is too expensive, remember that She Hulk had 225 mil for only 1 season and it SUCKED

[@aliyahsulaiman11]

Really, which studio did marvel hire to make she hulk cgi.

[@KingOfMadCows]

Because those Marvel/Disney shows were very poorly managed. She-Hulk was rushed and Secret Invasion had tons of reshoots. But Andor on the other hand, was managed well. It had a huge budget of over $200 million and it looked great because they planned things out and they took their time.

[@Lolamy]

he literally says in the video, time is just as if not more important than budget. Disney/marvel is notorious for rushing artists and giving them such tight deadlines. Thats why it ends up being so bad.

[@masterbeast-sz1yq]

Because Marvel tv shows are the opposite of their movies

[@fozy333]

the cg might have sucked but the show was till pretty fuckin funny and enjoyable

[@sarmadhabibkhan3036]

Arcane, Frieren, One Piece and Dan Da Dan made my fucking year. The world of animation is alive and well.

[@djan0889]

It's peak.

[@zebstan1769]

PEAK add bleach tybw to it

[@alexandruconstantin4655]

i don't agree on DAN DA DAN, i don't think that highly of that anime, is good but not worth the praise too much :-?

[@zebstan1769]

@alexandruconstantin4655 Fr

[@rooodis456]

@@alexandruconstantin4655whatever your opinions on the show you can’t deny the animation itself is so insanely good

[@ScorpionNani]

Imagine having in your resume as an animator for Arcane. You are set for life to any job in animation.

[@deshrektives]

Well, except for the whole robot takeover thing.

[@dess3597]

@@deshrektives I think the robot take over thing isn't as bad as people make it. It's a huge assumption that the animator will be fired when in truth the AI is just a shell in which the human soul must find meaning. That is to say the animator will still be needed to make the art breath. Just as every art medium before it photography, painting, scripting, 3d modeling was all used and composted into an Arcane love letter. Artists make art in every way; forever with love.

[@skittslol1407]

This is what happens when you give artists power.

[@LaNoir.]

Tell that those AI Bros that say artists are not needed anymore

[@TReZxDrEaMz]

Don't forget about the music and the overall sound design in the show being truly amazing.

[@khunso3284]

Vow · Arcane · Ray Chen

[@stefssj1291]

The French are by far Europe's Best animators, I've known this for 20 years already

[@erickvallee2548]

i feel like in the world they're the only one with US ( although it got slower recently) that can keep up with asian media (that got out of control in terms of quantity or quality ) music,boy love storied,series,bollywood ( all of it ) ,mange ,animation .

[@Le0_0-]

It pains me to admit it, but that's one good thing I have to give to the french

[@clydu91]

​@@erickvallee2548Asian animation was surpassed 10 years ago.

[@Blorxian-hater]

@@erickvallee2548 I mean I love anime but name one anime that’s as good looking as arcane… violet Evergarden maybe? It’s debatable

[@hanyu_dada]

@@Blorxian-hater japanese animation cost like 50€ a whole season, its trash

[@Sagano96]

Arcane so far is the only cinematic piece alongside LotR trilogy i'd give 11/10. i cant imagine doing it better. I have no imagination to come up with anything that could work nearly as well as Fortiche did. It is simply incomprehensible how good and internally consistent every aspect of this animation is.

[@jaredsturt8626]

I would only add Breaking Bad.

[@whispervenom7369]

LotR, Arcane and breaking bad The quality STANDARD for modern movies and series that we want

[@hanyu_dada]

@@jaredsturt8626 overrated shit

[@NASTAR01]

I'd also add shows such as Mr. Robot and Utopia (UK). Both incredible, with stunning cinematography Pretty much anything that Dennis Villanueva creates is also an absolute work of art They're out there, you just have to go find them

[@bananakrusher811]

Include spiderverse lol

[@lumisobolewska]

$250,000,000...so worth as far as I can guess after watching the first three episodes

[@blaisexrusso]

Imagine if they had a billion dollars 💸 💵 💲 🤑

[@lumisobolewska]

billion dollar season 3

[@mycollegeshirt]

the spiderverse vs arcane fight for most influential animation continues. I don't know whose going to win, but I'm rooting for both of em. I always wanted western animation to get to this quality as a kid. Sure wish it was 2d animation though.

[@bearbyboy5183]

Dude I think the game is the ad for Arcane, not the other way around

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Wouldn't be surprised

[@AthenaTennosN]

In a way? It's 2024, League has been bleeding players for years now, so if Rito want to continue with the franchise, they have to gradually pivot away from LoL as its centerpiece. They understand this, hence all the new Runeterra projects. None of them are as big as League in its heyday, but Arcane sure comes close.

[@nivahriart]

​@@AthenaTennosNarcane Team from riot consists only of 20 people. They were given freedom to do what they want. So most of rito is still commited to League and esports

[@AthenaTennosN]

@@nivahriart it's money that matters, not the staff per se. I don't imagine they spend that much on League proper.

[@slamsuperslam]

@@AthenaTennosNit could be losing players in NA, and maybeee EU, but League is still growing in China and Korea. China itself has hundreds of millions playing it every day.

[@tsumucrocodile8294]

Studio Fortiche also said that they would be interested to adapt/animate the Vagabond manga

[@_KobbyOb]

The statement "Every frame of the show could be a wallpaper" shows how much work went into it.

[@MooseMeus]

that's funny you mention the wallpaper. i literally took screenshots throughout the show. currently rocking that tree outside caitlyns house i think and then my animated wallpaper of jinx from season 1.. (you have to turn off hardware acceleration in chrome settings to be able to get a picture off netflix, fyi)

[@octavia3608]

Can u give a tut on how u got the ss please?

[@Nabee_H]

@@octavia3608 turn off hardware acceleration, but honestly just go to KZbin and screenshot it from there. Give it a few days and people will start pumping out wallpapers as well (if they already haven't) that are upscaled.

[@Nutellagott]

Did you use a Screen recording app or something? Pleaserespond, this is really important

[@Carcosahead]

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[@ShabnaFarooque]

I've got the Vi shot from the Hellfire music sequence, and also Vi parkouring into the Undercity (god I love vi)

[@pronetogames7946]

0:57 YOU WILL NEVER REACH THE TRUTH 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@imagine8523]

Ger 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@elieliii8656]

Requiemu da

[@voiceful3050]

I really wish they had three seasons. The only reason why i say that is because it feels like there is so much happening at once that it becomes too much!

[@1antag0nist53]

Fr, interestingly enough this show would actually benefit from a filler or two

[@hallieskiddles3179]

Yeah, season 2 felt like the storytellers bit off wayyyy more than they could chew and were cramming it all in last minute. This is even more true when you go back to rewatch season 1, which was… VERY slow-paced in comparison. Season 2 tried to tell too many stories in too few episodes, so that left a lot of loose ends and moments that were kind of just confusing?

[@1antag0nist53]

@@hallieskiddles3179 fr, like we could have had a whole episode dedicated to the Zaunite rebellions instead of the AMV segment we got with “Paint The Town Blue”. At the very least, the final episode should have been a full-length movie. AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN SINCE THERE WAS SO MUCH CUT FROM IT 😭 Nonetheless, i wouldn’t say it was rushed, though. I’d argue it might have been more budgeting issues from higher up, which makes sense as this already is the most expensive animated show in recent times with what they put out.

[@T0psyDurpy]

0:15 When bro said "call me a krispy kreme donut, i thought he meant something else white💀😭

[@GarredHATES]

Every frame is a splash art painting, got dayum!

[@morganmcgary921]

Art, acting, music, story, synergy...arguably one of the best animated content of all time.

[@Izordechannel]

4:16 yeah... I really feel those 4 seasons long story arc condensation tbh. I wouldn't have said no to one more season to slow down the pace a little bit.

[@hubertcumberdale6404]

I’m halfway into season 2 and not only have they maintained the momentum of S1 but the animation is top notch!

[@LisanAlGareeb]

Thanks for the coverage! found you through the blue lock animator interview and got suggested this. Thanks again for the hard work and keep em coming!

[@Almy-o9x]

1:13 Jojo reference its diavlo bruh😂

[@bigidlagger7589]

Thats what I thought when I saw the scene to

[@buffbeluga9541]

It’ve been days now and no one made that jokes. I thought I was in a different universe or smt.

[@letri3139]

@@buffbeluga9541 ikr

[@TheUbberman]

@@buffbeluga9541 Well considering the show feels like it was Made in Heaven, I'd not blame you.

[@Nippiy]

They didn't do it for the money they did it for the quality.

[@rayv1918]

Those 5 whales are carrying riot.

[@Carcosahead]

And we infinitely appreciate their grand support, thanks 5 whales

[@rayv1918]

@Carcosahead True lol.

[@JiicoZ]

I really hope now they’ve got Mel’s story and lore that they connect Astra from Valorant, and have a seperate but linked series ngl

[@joeschroedernz]

2 seasons is so baller. Duck out on top when everyone is still asking for more. Go down as one of the greatest shows ever created.

[@emmanuelmartindale8309]

Only reason i have a Netflix account

[@xBananowyJEx]

9.5/10 That 0.5 is for the ultra fast Victor scene in s2e2. Like wew, I know that he isn't himself there but he just went "k thx bye" to Jayce. They needed like 5-10 mins more for bros going separate ways. And 250 millions for 18 episodes? That makes it dirt cheap compared to new movies that often flop (looking at you Joker2) or games that also were few years in developement and with the same cost (or even had near double of that).

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

It was done that way on purpose. It was suppose to feel like you were caught off guard. They pulled it off insanely well since everyone is saying the same thing.

[@MrDoomsmith]

If you look at the table when he picks up the book, there is a drawing of Caits new gun. Jayce promised not to make anymore hextech weapons, and Victor saw that as soon as he woke up.

[@FlutterSwag]

Im hoping to GOD that they continue arcane with more regions, the Noxus vs Ionian war seems the most logical step

[@isabellecheuk]

1:06 LMAO 'ORGASMIC' literally could not have said a better fitting word

[@LuxicCardinal]

most importantly, they used it good

[@cheesyumm1623]

Thank god arcane isn't ending up like blue lock 🫡

[@beesechurger1]

Don’t compare that shit to arcane

[@jypixel2004]

they have time and budget rather than blue lock got rushed and not enough budget 😂

[@seaweedbanana4663]

30 secs in arcane have more frame than an entire episode in blue lock

[@bigidlagger7589]

@@seaweedbanana4663 nah its more like the entire season of frame lock

[@syressx9098]

@@beesechurger1 Leave Blue Lock alone, it's a great manga and it's a shame how bad animation of season 2 is.

[@maybeAverage]

Yes Arcane is back :D. thanks arikendo for letting me know!!!!

[@gokuby]

Arcane is one of the best things I ever watched, absolutely phenomenal show with outstanding visuals. As a league fan this November is stacked af, hype Worlds finals into Arcane S2.

[@sonofamortician]

as someone in the industry, this is still the best thing, wow these people blew my mind it is so good.

[@JCs_-]

take notes mappa

[@blturn]

3:44 I'd like to highlight this clip here from Arcane's behind-the-scenes. I loved how forthright the artist is here with this question. A lot of 3D Artists who specialise in materials, textures, nodes, and simulations ask a 2D texture artist how they get their models to look so painterly?! It's simple: they paint. Every camera angle in this show is a painting that has been projected onto a rough 3D scene. Every camera angle requires a new painting. It's like a modernisation of the classic Disney animations with Snow White and Pinocchio, where they would do watercolours for the background and foreground while their characters are in between in a different artistic medium.

[@balthasarking8570]

Riot is a music/art studio that has a side hustle making games

[@brianegendorf2023]

Everything about this show was pretty well done. The animation, the story, the sound design. Its all chef's kiss!

[@hornedlobster]

Worth every goddamn cent. Words cant express how insanely good the animation is.

[@CrazyChillDog]

Dude....dude...the three EPISODES felt like a WHOLE ASS SEASON, with how it built up from episode 1 to the conclusion of episode 3, it was such an amazing ride. Anime of the year.

[@glorytoukraine5524]

Arcane is not an anime.

[@CrazyChillDog]

@glorytoukraine5524 You're right. It's THE ANIME. ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

[@GabrielGonzalez-mw9cg]

every video i feel like im consuming like 45min of content. Its only been 5min lol. Well done.

[@Vicenteprz]

i hope they try animating a jonia movie next, it would be so epic if they explore Yasuo’s journey in animation with him helping other champions like shen, irelia and ahri. Yasuo vs Yone with fortiche animation would be absolute cinema. Akira Kurosawa style samurai movie is all i need from them.

[@silverdeer4876]

I second this very badly,,,,that would be awesome

[@michapiasta3072]

I think they will have Noxus invasion of Ionia as next series, with Riven and Yasuo backstory being the focus as it ties down to Singed, then shen and zeds ninja mess as a secondary plot.

[@Sneaky_5]

​@michapiasta3072 this has to happen! I can just imagine how epic that story will be! All the amazing side characters they could get from both Ionia and Noxus would be top class! Shen and Akali, Zed coming into play. Irelia, Master Yi, Swain, Draven Darius, the list just goes on and on.

[@iliasshogenov5929]

Amazing animation + competent writers = greatness

[@zerocrusade2531]

The time, budget, and effort to make this made it into something more than just a show. It's a legacy that will endure decades after its premeire and the wait was worth it.

[@WorldOfEntertainment33]

Arcane is the result of animation industry actually LETTING the animators cook AND season!🔥

[@jaymegonzales818]

by the end of this amazing show, i want to have more of it. i whould watch it forever. but i can't imagine myself watching arcane in 5 seasons.

[@LucasRodmo]

After seeing the behind the scenes documentary (Bridging the Rift), I am certain that the level of passion, time, dedication and love those people have is unparalleled in Hollywood right now.

[@mayankdobhal3110]

it's the emotions, thrill, action, music, direction, art style, vision for me OHH mann... it's the best thing i've ever watched...❤❤

[@JaredQueiroz]

Bro, my favorite part was this "What" you gave at the beggining...... When you know something is completelly, absolutelly and tremendously unecessery... BUT IS FUCKING THERE!... As a spit in the face of this lazy universe we live in.... Because true art lives in the quietest details.

[@milo_thatch_incarnate]

This show is right up there in my top 5 best shows ever, alongside the masterpieces Lost, Attack on Titan, The 100, and Sherlock (BBC) - and that’s probably the biggest compliment I could possibly give. It’s an unbelievably masterful show. A true orgasm of artistic talent, from the animation to the writing to the music to the voice acting.

[@Holloww.voiddd]

i think they really put heart on arcane , for me its basically one of the best animation series ever and probably will be for decades

[@ditz3nfitness]

4:30, NEVER played League, and I LOVED EVERYTHING about it!

[@SN-ET]

Imagine invincible with this animation

[@carsonmalleet4367]

I have never even touched LoL, it’s not my type of game, but holy crap is this show good. I’m kind of jealous of the people that have a better grasp on all of the lore and easter eggs, but it’s very impressive that a show based on a video game can stand on its own like that.

[@ThatOneGuy61916]

This is peak bro. I use to pray for times like this. I do have a question. what exactly is Jayce and Ekko plotline. is the hex Tech evolving, poison or something. What exactly are they doing. The show is moving so fast I kind of miss it.

[@aliyahsulaiman11]

I think the hex tech literally evolves the more it gets used or temper with, like it’s evolving to what it’s suppose to be. The void.

[@Ken-lk1cg]

​@@aliyahsulaiman11 its not the void

[@rice_frying_shrimp]

It's like Heimer said, there's a reaction to every action. Very basically whenever hextech is invoked, there is a reaction. Usually it's the one that the user requested but wild runes are the result of hextech eventually refusing to listen and lashing out because it's a living energy that wants to do its own thing. Even sorcerers who abuse this energy much less frequently and put significantly less strain on it will sometimes run into a problem where their spells malfunction or misfire (again a direct quote from Heimer). Ekko and Jayce have discovered this and it now seems that Victor has become the living, walking catalyst for the will of the hex energy. He is enacting what it wants to do which is evolve. What exactly that means is yet to be seen presumably very early in act 2. Hope this helped clear things up.

[@herpyderp3384]

I think its caused by living matter fusing with it, mostly from victor i guess but also from the gates as they said in the show, along with a dose of shimmer which we currently also dont know much about. I also think the spot on the floor heimer spotted in the failsafe room was from when victor coughed blood in season over that fence and that connection to victor and also shimmer was what caused the corruption(?) of the construction. My current theory of what this means is that the action of mixing living matter/shimmer with the arcane caused the reaction of the arcane wanting to evolve, like life does, but maybe in a sinister way because of shimmer.

[@Ken-lk1cg]

@@herpyderp3384 Its not the organic matter, it would then have had a purple colour as seen in the orb viktor absorbed

[@Nippiy]

Worth every $.

[@greenwings6846]

I'm glad there weren't five seasons, but I had such a distinct feeling two years prior that season two needed to be longer than season one, and although I thoroughly enjoyed what we got, I feel like I was seriously right.

[@niyo919]

Every frame of Arcane is like a painting, it's insane.

[@travisshow308]

This is why borderlands 1 & 2 looked so good. Blending 2D perfectly with 3D

[@adam-khalaf635]

1:05 GENUENLY WHAT NOW??? 😭🙏

[@ashtarammar7246]

Visual Masterpiece

[@felix-the-mongoose]

Money allows them to have the best animators, and have them have more time to work in the project.

[@jakovfilipsabolicek798]

you lost my viewer retention after you made a wild comeback of the "Ain't nobody got time for that" meme immediately went to listen to the remix

[@Pepsimaximo1]

Genuinely the best animated series or movie I have ever seen. Possibly the best series or movie, period. I've kept scores out of 10 for about 50 different series & movies that I've watched over the past few years, and this is the only one that I think deserves 10/10.

[@JulioAvila-ws5kn]

Bro this show was hands down the best one ever !!! Masterpiece i shed a tear when I saw their dad

[@SidGame-g8n]

That moment when you finish a masterpiece and realize you're not gonna experience stuff like this for years

[@ChromaticLion]

French casually creating master pieces of animation

[@skafatd]

250M well spent

[@АндрейМилошевич]

It’s incredible amazing hard work to create a diamond masterpiece series! ❤

[@EmmaBGames]

It is true Art! Every frame is a poster and I truly adore it.

[@MrNabura]

It also took way more time because when Fortiche came to RIOT with the first pilot animation, RIOT knew the script wasn't up there to the level of animation Fortiche provided. So they continued working on the script while Fortiche brought out some other bangers (the music clips of Rise and Get Jinxed). These clips were the "basics" to get the right aimation style/feel for the Arcane series.

[@samexz1_2]

You could put arcane in the best animated show in history and it will not be an exaggeration, thats how good it is

[@joltsy4935]

this is not just a video game movie, it's art

[@anshulsingh8326]

Spiderman spiderverse, Arcane both are full wallpaper videos 🤣

[@NoChance-oz4dd]

2 season wasnt nearly long enough , so many characters and stories that could have been fleshed out

[@generalirons9789]

Concord cries at night wishing it could live up to a fraction of Arcane’s quality

[@RaskaTheFurry]

Goated 20/10 masterpiece, LEGENDARY level anime.

[@paulliu1398]

This what happens when you really give the animators and music producers does everything with the best of their abilities

[@frostreaper1607]

I know nothing about LoL but this is one of my favorite shows, I'm baised towards the style tho, I absolutely love the handpainted look from games like Amalur, WoW and Dishonered, just to name a few. The animation is fantastic, and learning that it's a 2D and 3D hybrid really exites me, what a great marriage of mediums! The fact that the writing is also great is a huge relief because it's like very few people can still write and it's becoming annoying.

[@Zuranthus]

3D chars on 2D backgrounds, that was a genius idea

[@njames69]

The best thing about this show is you can tell everyone was kept on the same page of “This is a creative project, not a cash grab. Please do your best!”

[@alirezanikpay]

People are going crazy about charcoal, as Tyrion said: people love stories.

[@RavensDelight]

It's still 5 seasons. They just concluded the Piltower/Zaun arc in 2 seasons and will continue the story in other regions in the other seasons.

[@Infernox-tg6ky]

You can feel when a team is giving their heart for a project VS a bunch of people only thniking about profit.

[@muzink3188]

And every penny was well spent

[@googooboyy]

Arcane taking 9 years and a gargantuan budget is like getting a hundred James Cameron into a production studio and hammering away at it.

[@Drake-lp6yh]

250 million to PRODUCE. Which includes composing music, recording music, singers, voice actors, sound effects, writers, other salaries etc...

[@ParziV]

Over 60mil only for advertisement

[@ZoharChen-d4e]

underrated channel. Hope u get more love!