On March 14, 2022, Riot Games announced a new equity investment in Fortiche Production. In November 2021 Riot-Games-CEO Nicolo Laurent announced via Twitter that a second season has been commissioned from Fortiche Production. Le Figaro reported that the budget of Arcane was Template:Euro60–80 million. The studio's revenue rose to Template:Euro16.4 million for 2021. The studio expanded in 2020 with branches in Montpellier and Las Palmas.
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With the creation of Arcane, the staff grew to 500 at times and 326 currently producing the series in six years. It was the world's most-watched series on Netflix for two weeks in November 2021 and was extremely well received by critics. In November 2021, Fortiche, in collaboration with Riot Games, released the series Arcane set in the League of Legends-universe on the streaming platforms Netflix and in China on Tencent Video.
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Īt the 2017 industry fair Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux, the studio pitched the feature film project Miss Saturne with a pilot short film. Motion Capture technology was used for this. In 2015, the French channel France 2 broadcast the 55-minute historical documentary film Le dernier Gaulois about the Gallic Wars animated by Fortiche.
The animation studio eventually moved on to the production of the series Rabbids Invasion, which it co-produced from 2013 to 2019 for Netflix and Nickelodeon in partnership with Ubisoft. For the latter, Fortiche produced game trailers in the form of short films along with music videos, most notably Pop/Stars. These projects caught the attention of video game studios such as Ubisoft, Volition Studios, Carbine Studios and Riot Games. įortiche moved on to creating music videos, created for Freak Kitchen, Gorillaz and LIMOUSINE. From the start, a combination of 2D and 3D animation has defined the studio's style, the "Touche Fortiche". The animation studio was founded in 2009 and initially created commercials for Coca-Cola, Honda, Samsung, Panasonic and MTV.
Its biggest project to date is the television series Arcane. The companies but Riot and Fortiche confirmed that the two companies have other to be-announced projects in the works.Fortiche Production SAS is a French animation studio headquartered in Paris. Unfortunately for League fans, they must wait a while to release Arcanes second season, where they have no date yet. The League universe was introduced to a completely new demographic and their incredible stories were fascinated by the rich animation and the wonderful art that came within. It hit the top 10 in over 52 countries and the highest performance in criticism on Rotten Tomatoes. Since Fortiche animated Jinxs released a music video called Get Jinxed, the two companies have already become very connected to projects like the animated 2014 World Championship music video featuring Imagine Dragons, the Enemy music video and the highly-acclaimed debut MMV for Leagues virtual group, K/DA.Īrcane was for far the most successful work with Riot by the end. As proud as I am of Arcane, we know that it’s not about what to do. Through our work with Fortiche, we work to open up our minds and give the best of possible possibilities for a platform for a digital platform.
On top of that, Riots chief executive Brian Wright and executive director Brendan Mulligan will join Fortiches board.ĭuring the last few years where Riot and Fortiche have worked together, Riot’s CEO Nicolo Laurent was very happy with how Fortiche was concentrating on understanding the player base and how it was able to reach the high bar that the game company set for its members.įortiche has been an integral partner for a long time, but this agreement ensures the quality of working for these years, Laurent said. Riot owns a large but non-controlling stake in the studio. Following the massive success of the Arcane animated series, League of Legends, Riot Games officially made a substantial investment into the show’s animation studio.