Arcane

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Okay a few years late w this 🤦‍♂️ but I hope you enjoy - Another musical breakdown, from Episode 3 + Episode 6 of Arcane Season 1

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For a few weeks this summer, Piltover and Zaun took over the heart of Beijing!

From July 13 to August 31, the Arcane Commemorative Exhibition transformed SKP‑S, Beijing’s avant‑garde luxury mall (all 35,000 m² of it!), into an immersive Arcane playground, where visitors stepped directly into the series’ imagination and artistry.

Conceived as a “store of the future,” SKP‑S was the perfect stage for an experience where fashion, art, and animation collide! [...]

Riot Games and Fortiche Productions’ Arcane won the Outstanding Animated Program award at the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards this weekend in Los Angeles.

The unstoppable League of Legends-inspired series earned the award for its season two episode “The Dirt Under Your Nails,” securing a second victory in the category after making history in 2022 as the first streaming show to claim the honor.

Arcane also picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for an Animated Program on Saturday evening, with recognition going to Brad Beaumont, Eliot Connors, Stephen P. Robinson, Janet Pascual, Dan O’Connell, and John T. Cucci. This was also a repeat performance for the show, which won the sound editing honor in 2022 for the episode “When These Walls Come Tumbling Down.” This year’s win underscores, once again, that there is far more to the hit series than its distinctive visual aesthetic and engaging narrative, including top-tier technical execution by teams all throughout its pipeline.

These latest honors cap off a strong awards year for Arcane. Earlier this summer, the series was honored at the juried Emmys with two Individual Achievement in Animation awards. Bruno Couchinho was recognized for background design in “The Dirt Under Your Nails,” while Faustine Dumontier was recognized for color in the episode “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern.” [...] (emphasis added)

We’re again super proud to share that Arcane Season 2 has been nominated for two Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Science!

🏆 Outstanding Animated Program
🎧 Outstanding Sound Editing for an Animated Program [...]

The second season of the League of Legends animated series Arcane won big at the 52nd Annie Awards on Saturday (8 February), sweeping all seven categories it was nominated for. [emphasis added]

Here are the awards Arcane received at the 52nd Annie Awards:

• Best Direction – TV/Media (The Dirt Under Your Nails)
• Best Editorial – TV/Media (Pretend Like It’s the First Time)
• Best Music – TV/Media (The Dirt Under Your Nails)
• Best FX – TV/Media (The Dirt Under Your Nails)
• Best Production Design – TV/Media (The Dirt Under Your Nails)
• Best Character Animation – TV/Media (Killing Is A Cycle, Heavy Is the Crown, Finally Got the Name Right, The Message Hidden Within The Pattern, The Dirt Under Your Nails, Pretend Like It’s the First Time, Blisters And Bedrock)
• Best Storyboarding – TV/Media (Killing Is a Cycle)

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Talented creative dude walks through his attempt at recreating a scene from Arcane in Blender

‘Arcane’ drew a big audience, but didn’t bring in enough gaming revenue

Archived link: https://archive.is/n1pPv

Having released on Netflix last month, AWN sat down with co-creator and executive producer Christian Linke to discuss the hand-drawn secrets of some of Arcane’s most challenging animated sequences, the motivation behind the season’s two silent characters, and what went into choosing the final line spoken in the season’s finale.

When you're interacting with the bottom-left set of notes on the map-board in Silco's office, there's a note that pops up for just a couple of frames and then disappears?

All my life, I've been afraid, afraid of losing you again. But fear, it's a funny thing. It makes you do craxy thinks. [sic] It makes you strong.

And now I'm not afraid anymore. I'm Jinx. That's who I am. And I won't let enyone [sic] take that away from me. You see, Vi, this is the

[note ends]

Is this just a little easter egg? I tried using search engines for a few phrases from the text but can't find any results, though at least two people in the comments of the linked video noticed it.

Arcane S02 E07 struck a chord with me. This edit (AMV? is that what these are called?) is basically me having a brainworm about Ekko wondering if he's chosen the wrong timeline. He left the other timeline behind because he knew that this timeline needed him. They needed Ekko to save them.

And he did it. He managed to talk Jinx out of suicide. He defeated Viktor and saved both Piltover and Zaun. But what did he get for it? What's left for him here?

From his perspective, Jinx is dead and Powder's long gone here - and maybe he even blames himself because he wasn't there to save her from herself. Can you imagine the heartbreak of talking her down from suicide-by-grenade only for her to do it later anyway when you're not there to stop her? And this is juxtaposed against having just seen her thriving and happy as Powder in the other timeline.

Heimerdinger's gone, having given himself up to send Ekko back.

For all of their history, Vi didn't even say a single word to him. At least a "thanks for having our backs" would've been nice, you know? Maybe she's too busy with Caitlyn now.

Mylo, Claggor, Vander, Benzo - dead.

He might even feel responsible for leading to Jayce's death in the process of taking Viktor down.

So he gave up a world where he had everything he wanted - even the dreams that were so far away that he had given up on ever achieving them. He had to experience the pain of losing all of these people, and all of these dreams. The pain of having them ripped away from him not just once, but twice.

The world he saved should be building statues and writing sonnets celebrating his heroism and courageous acts of selfless sacrifice.

Instead we see him sitting alone by himself, far away from everyone else at the bridges. Maybe that's where he belongs - far away from them. Far away from this.

Maybe he chose the wrong universe to wake up in. Maybe he belongs where he was happy.

..Maybe there's a way back?

This is of course twisting the narrative a bit! Things aren't quite as bad as that depressive catastrophizing, but I thought the idea was still deeply and emotionally thought-provoking.

Some of this was also inspired from a comment by No Way (@dg-dm1rr) on the Ma Meilleure Ennemie video: https://youtu.be/1F3OGIFnW1k

Jayce: strong enough to crawl his way out of hell
Ekko: strong enough to leave heaven behind

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He also reviewed part 1 and part 2.

I think Noxus, Demacia and Iona would fit together well for a single show: Noxus is always fighting the other two, and Demacia and Iona have very contrasting attitudes towards magic. Also, thematically they're much closer than Noxus and P&Z.

Idk just thought I'd open a thread about it now that the show is finished

Did you watch it ? Did you like it ? Did your favourite champion die ?