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Arcane (titled onscreen as Arcane: League of Legends) is an adult animated steampunk action-adventure television series created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee. It was produced by the French animation studio Fortiche under the supervision of Riot Games, and distributed by Netflix.
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Arcane (titled onscreen as Arcane: League of Legends) is an animated action-adventure series created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee for Netflix. Produced by Fortiche under the supervision of Riot Games, it is set in the League of Legends Arcane timeline, and focuses on several characters from the games, particularly Vi and Jinx. The series was first released in November 2021. A second season will be released in November 2024.
Based on the world behind League of Legends, Arcane dives into the delicate balance between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed underground of Zaun. Known across Runeterra as the "city of progress," many of the most brilliant minds call these cities home. But the creation of hextech, a way for any person to control magical e...
This is a summarized list of contributions for the series. For an in-depth credit list, see each episode's page.
Series Producers
•Christian 'Praeco' Linke - Executive Producer and Co-Creator
•Alex 'Skribbles' Yee - Co-Executive Producer and Co-Creator
•Marc 'Tryndamere' Merrill - Executive Producer
•Brandon 'Ryze' Beck - Executive Producer
The series currently has one season (9 episodes) with a second season in development.
Arcane currently has two soundtracks released for the series: Arcane: Original Soundtrack and Arcane: Original Score (divided into 3 Acts). These soundtracks were released on payed music sites such as Amazon Music, Spotify, as well as free on Youtube.
Season 1
Pitched by Linke and Yee in around 2014-2015, everything from planning and starting up the project to the overall writing, production, and animation took around six years before its eventual release. With this being the company's first foray into this media format, Riot Games decided to have Arcane developed internally and independently financed, though initially through the collaboration of Linke and Yee with artists they've worked with before they began to receive more funding from Riot. Riot's then Global Head of Entertainment Businesses and Partnerships Jarred Kennedy worked with a creative team of writers (including Linke and Yee) in Los Angeles. The series was produced with and animated by Fortiche Productions, a French animation and creative production studio based in Paris that has worked with Riot on various videos for its champions in the past. The voice actors came in early in the production process, but majority of the main cast was only announced years later on September 21st, 2021. The series was announced on October 15th, 2019 as part of the League of Legends 10th anniversary celebrations, with Riot Games' CEO Nicolo Laurent stating that they have plans for Arcane to have multiple seasons. Original slated for a 2020 release, the show was delayed to 2021 due to COVID-19-related difficulties. On May 3rd, 2021, it was announced that the show has been picked up by Netflix for international release and by Tencent Video in China with a fall release date. On September 25th, 2021, the release date for the first 3 episodes was revealed to be November 6th, 2021. Though the events of the series are heavily based on the established lore of the game, some differences have already been noted in the series. Creators Christian Linke and Alex Lee have shared that the changes are not necessarily retcons but are "adjustments in order to give [the viewers] the best story possible". Though working to make Arcane as consistent as possible with canon, as of 2021, he doesn't "think [they] would be considered a source of truth over the game", adding that they are taking into consideration the reaction of the fans, the current setup of Riot and its games, as well as the updates and changes to the characters. On January 29th, 2022, Thomas 'Wikingham' Cunningham, Senior Manager of Narrative Editing for League of Legends, would state in an interview with Polygon that "Their stories and their designs in Arcane are intentionally different from the Jayce and Viktor you see in-game, specifically to fit the show. So, it’s unlikely that we will make major changes to League of Legends’ Jayce and Viktor to match 1:1 with Arcane’s," when asked if any of these changes will eventually be consolidated into the game’s canon at large. Based on his response at the time, Arcane and League of Legends were separate entities, with the former drawing heavy influences from the latter, but ultimately deviating to better support the show. On February 16th 2023, Andrei 'Meddler' van Roon, the Head of League Studio, stated that Riot was going to be more "thoughtful" and "deliberate" about making a "consistent and cohesive wider Runeterran experience", in reference to the lore of League of Legends being inconsistent across different mediums. When asked how this approach to narrative cohesiveness would affect Arcane, he noted that Riot wants to "get to a state where Arcane, LoL, LoR etc are all clearly building in the same canon". On October 12th, 2023, Laura 'poisonpixxi' DeYoung, Head of IP Creative for Riot Games, elaborated on their new approach to narrative cohesiveness by explaining that there would be one shared canon moving forward and confirmed that Arcane was part of that canon. Andrei van Roon would also note that the origin of hextech in Arcane would be the new origin going forward and champions related to it would be adjusted to match.
Season 2
Following the season's conclusion on November 20th, 2021, Riot Games and Netflix announced that a second season was in production. On November 9th, 2023, Netflix announced that season 2 would premiere in November 2024 at Geeked Week 2023. On November 12th, 2023, series co-creator Christian 'Praeco' Linke noted that a "song that everyone on the team absolutely LOVES for a particular scene" created by a "(very big) artist" was in production for the second season, however, because Riot cannot guarantee a marketing campaign that would elevate it above the other songs in the soundtrack, the record label would likely not allow them to use it.
Season 1
Riot Games promoted the launch of Arcane through multiple events. During the 2021 League of Legends Worlds Championship, the opening for the finale was Arcane themed. Several musicians such as Imagine Dragons, JID, Denzel Curry, Bea Miller, and PVRIS all performed through pre-recorded performances on stages that blended practical sets with digital effects. Two songs performed, "Welcome to the Playground" and "Enemy", would later reappear in the show. Through RiotX Arcane, Riot promoted the show within their own games such as League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics, Wild Rift, and Valorant. They also did promotional collaborations with non-Riot games such as PUBG MOBILE, Fortnite, Among Us, and Magic: The Gathering. Riot promoted the show with a Arcane themed cafe (with its own exclusive cafe merch) and art exhibition hall in South Korea. It lasted a week before the global premiere of the show. Similarly, the show was promoted in cities like New York (US), Moscow (Russia), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), and Dubai (UAE). This was done with Arcane billboards scattered across the city on buildings and advertisement covers on metro trains. In case of Dubai, the Burj Khalifa was lit up with an Arcane themed projections that lasted several minutes. Several Arcane themed murals popped-up in cities like: Barcelona (Spain); Gdynia, Katowice, Warsaw, Wrocław (Poland); Prague (Czechia). On November 6th, 2021, for the global premiere, Riot Games hosted a live event at their headquarters. Numerous actors from the show, show developers, Riot employees, and popular fan content creators were invited to participate in the premier of the first episode. Riot streamed this event and the first episode on Twitch. Some content creators were allowed to co-stream (as well as interview several Riot employees and co-creators of Arcane before the episode premiered) the first three episodes of the series once they received permission from Riot Games, a first for a Netflix series, which also allowed viewers to retrieve in-game drops during the premiere. Drops were only included in the games League of Legends (Arcane Capsule), Wild Rift ("A Single Tear" Emote), Teamfight Tactics (Gizmos & Gadgets Little Legends Egg), Legends of Runeterra ( "Fascinating" Emote), and Valorant ("Fishbones" Gun Buddy). The premiere received 1.8 million concurrent viewers on Twitch. In conjunction with RiotXArcane, between the airing of Act 2 and Act 3, Riot hosted a live event called Undercity Nights. During that event guests were able to enjoy their night in a bar created to resemble the Last Drop from the show. The live event had a two-day broadcast, featuring live competitions from Riot's games as well as discussions from within a recreated Last Drop Office room. On both days of the broadcast was co-streamable to all content creators and watchable on Twitch and YouTube. A second chance to earn Twitch Drops from Arcane's Premiere were enabled during the broadcast of this event. Additional details about Chem-Barons companies were released on the Enter the Undercity live event site, which was tied to the Undercity Nights live party event. During the Enter the Undercity event, several cosplayers were hired by Riot to play characters from the show, as well as others made for the event itself. Additionally, several previously unnamed characters from the show had their names revealed through this cosplaying event, such as the chem-baroness Margot, and thugs Aero and Lock. Other marketing endeavors included an Arcane filter on TikTok, a dance in Just Dance 2023 featuring Jinx and Playground by Bea Miller, Arcane themed candy bars by Compartés Chocolatier, and a partnership with Rihanna's Fenty Beauty line. The first season was released in three installments ("Acts") with 3 episodes each. Episodes are roughly 40 minutes long.
Accolades
•27th Lumières Awards - Awards •Best Episodic – Animation •Season - 1 •49th Annie Awards - Awards •Best TV/Media - General Audience •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •Best FX - TV/Media: Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Ressencourt, Martin Touzé, Frédéric Macé, Jérôme Dupré •Episode: Oil and Water •Best Character Animation - TV/Media: Léa Chervet •Episode: The Monster You Created •Best Character Design - TV/Media: Evan 'Somnicidal' Monteiro •Episode: Some Mysteries Better Left Unsolved •Best Direction - TV/Media: Pascal Charue, Arnaud Delord, Barthelemy Maunoury •Episode: The Monster You Created •Best Production Design - TV/Media: Julien Georgel, Aymeric Kevin, Arnaud Baudry •Episode: Happy Progress Day! •Best Storyboarding - TV/Media: Simon Andriveau •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •Best Voice Acting - TV/Media: Ella Purnell ( Jinx) •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •Best Writing - TV/Media: Christian Linke, Alex Yee •Episode: The Monster You Created •69th Golden Reel Awards - Awards •Sound Editing − Non-Theatrical Animation: Brad Beaumont, Eliot Connors, Alexander Temple, Shannon Beaumont, Alexander Ephraim, Dan O' Connell, John Cucci, Alex Seaver •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •74th Primetime Emmy (2022) - Awards •Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Anne-Laure To (Color Script Artist) •Episode: The Boy Savior •Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Julien Georgel (Art Direction) •Episode: Happy Progress Day! •Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Bruno Couchinho (Background Designer) •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •Outstanding Animated Program •Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down •2nd Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards 2022 - Awards •Best Streaming Animated Series or TV Movie •Season - 1 •The Game Awards 2022 - Awards •Best Adaptation Category •Season - 1
•Series co-creator, Christian 'Praeco' Linke, also composed Vi and Jinx's themes.
•The show was named Arcane due to magic tying the world of Runeterra together, with every region and champion having a different relationship to it.
•The show was independently financed by Riot which, according to Jarred Kennedy, Riot's global head of IP businesses and partnerships, gave the studio “the creative oversight that we needed.”
•The series will be most appealing to those who are already familiar with the mythology of the game and want to further explore its roots. Riot co-founder Brandon 'Ryze' Beck told The Hollywood Reporter: •To promote the series, League of Legends released a slew of new features in the Into the Arcane event, codenamed trueshot internally.
- Hailee Steinfeld As Vi. Vi is one of the main characters of Arcane, an ill-tempered girl who likes to solve her problems with her fists. Despite being a vigorous fighter, she's delicate and sensitive, suffering from trust issues and troubled by the burden of a tragedy that occurred when she was a kid.
- Ella Purnell As Jinx. Jinx is a complex antihero in Arcane and Vi's younger sister. The show deals with Jinx's tragic arc in a way all anime can learn from Arcane: she usually has the best intentions, but the executions of her plans always get someone hurt.
- Kevin Alejandro As Jayce. The Arcane character Jayce is wildly different from his LOL lore. In the show, he seems to be the perfect man with the perfect life, but he carries an obsession with ancient magic ever since a mysterious encounter with a mage in his childhood.
- Harry Lloyd As Viktor. Viktor is one of the smartest characters in Arcane, but he's also enveloped in loneliness and troubled by a terminal condition. There's a certain darkness in Viktor despite his best intentions and the brilliant friendship he develops with Jayce.
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