Netflix ‘s “Arcane” wraps up with Season 2, getting thematically darker and aesthetically more experimental, as it resolves the war between the utopian Piltover and oppressed Zaun, as well as the battle between rival sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell). The final chapter of the Emmy-winning animated series ( the most expensive of all time at $250 million ) streams in three parts, each with a trio of episodes: Act One (November 9), Act Two (November 16), and Act Three (November 23). The acclaimed Riot video game adaptation looks even more dazzling, thanks to Paris animation studio Fortiche going totally bonkers with its mix of finely textured 3D characters, digitally hand-painted backgrounds, and 2D effects.
“With Season 1, we certainly were chasing the quality bar of drama that we see in a lot of shows, pushing our animators to be more subtle in the acting,” co-creator Christian Linke told IndieWire. “The animators had to find their style: the cinematography, the camera work, the lighting. “With Season 2, we could start dreaming bigger and more freely without technical limitations in our visuals and scene work,” he added.
“That’s the superpower of Fortiche. You don’t typically see these long shots where there are long dialogue scenes. It’s always like quick, quick, quick, quick, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
” It helped that all of the conflicts come to a head with visceral force after trying to avoid them in Season 1. “At the end .
