We used the topography of the bridge in order to set up the fight, as we placed spotlights across the bridge earlier in the episode for the enforcers to use, in order to have that as a light source for the scene, and we focused on making the choreography and the movements very realistic to bring forth the emotions of the scene, mixing that with the smoke from explosions and the street lights to transform the scenery into a concert hall.”įrom the get-go, Arcane grabs your attention with a unique blend of 2-D and 3-D - the directors refer to it as “two-and-a-half-D” animation - that’s realistic when it needs to be and cartoonish when it wants to, with characters that look straight out of a comic book and 2-D water, fire, and smoke effects giving it a Surrealist feel. “That’s why the bridge is such an important piece of symbolism, this place that connects the two cities and also the two characters who are now very far apart and on opposite ends. “We always try to find a theme for every fight so that it’s not just drawn out for the sake of having a long fight,” Arnaud Delord, co-director of Arcane and co-founder of studio Fortiche, says. It’s an emotional climax for Jinx’s descent into madness and embracing of her violent tendencies, while simultaneously a coming-of-age moment for Ekko, who stands up to his former friends as the leader of a rebel group. When the sisters meet again, it’s a violent, ugly reunion, with Jinx facing not only Vi but their former childhood friend Ekko in a fight to the death on the bridge that separates Piltover from the Undercity. Meanwhile, Vi spent years in prison, and when she gets out she teams up a Piltover enforcer to stop Silco and get her sister back. Separated for years on opposite ends of the Piltover conflict, Jinx feels abandoned and drawn to the one person seemingly there for her - Silco, a major player of the criminal underworld. Trapped in the middle of it all are two sisters, popular game characters Vi and Powder (later known as Jinx), whom we see slowly fall apart in the course of the first three episodes.
#ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS FULL#
It’s TV animation’s answer to the sense of groundbreaking wonder that accompanied Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Īrcane tells a sprawling story of a brewing conflict in the city of Piltover, which is split in two: The rich enjoy a city of progress on the surface, and everyone else lives in slums full of toxic vapors in the Undercity. The series’s expansive, lived-in world boasts some of the most impressive animation of the year, culminating in a visual marvel of a fight sequence in episode seven, “The Boy Savior”: Employing innovative lighting, depth of field, and live-action camera techniques, the sequence’s combination of 2-D and 3-D gives it a familiar yet fantastical look that feels like a video game brought to life. If there was any doubt that the video-game adaptation curse is starting to crack, Arcane, Netflix’s new animated version of the Über-popular League of Legends, settles the matter.
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