Fortiche Production

SAS SAS or Sas may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''SAS'' (novel series), a French book series by Gérard de Villiers * ''Shimmer and Shine'', an American animated children's television series * Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock ba ...

is a French animation studio headquartered in Paris. Its biggest project to date is the television series '' Arcane''.

Development

Fortiche was founded in 2009 and initially created commercials for Coca-Cola, Honda, Samsung, Panasonic and

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

. From the start, a combination of 2D and 3D animation has defined the studio's style, the "Touche Fortiche". They moved on to creating music videos, created for Freak Kitchen,

Gorillaz Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, ...

and LIMOUSINE. These projects caught the attention of video game studios such as Ubisoft, Volition Studios,

Carbine Studios Carbine Studios was a video game developer and subsidiary of NCSOFT, founded in 2005 by former members of Blizzard Entertainment. They were the developers of the online role-playing game '' WildStar''. History Carbine's founders were 17 former ...

and

Riot Games Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop ''League of Legends'' and went on t ...

. For the latter, Fortiche produced game trailers in the form of short films along with music videos, most notably Pop/Stars. They 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. In 2015, the French channel France 2 broadcast the 55-minute historical documentary film ''Le dernier Gaulois'' about the Gallic Wars animated by Fortiche.

Motion Capture Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robo ...

technology was used for this. At the 2017 industry fair ''Cartoon Movie'' in Bordeaux, the studio pitched the feature film project ''Miss Saturne'' with a pilot short film.

''Arcane''

In November 2021, Fortiche, in collaboration with

, released the series '' Arcane'' set in the '' League of Legends''-universe on the streaming platforms Netflix and in China on Tencent Video. It was the world's most-watched series on Netflix for two weeks in November 2021 and was extremely well received by critics. During the six year creation of ''Arcane'', staff numbers grew from around 15 to around 300. The studio expanded in 2020 with branches in

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

and Las Palmas. The studio's revenue rose to 16.4 million for 2021. '' Le Figaro'' reported that the budget of ''Arcane'' was 60–80 million. In November 2021 Riot-Games-CEO Nicolo Laurent announced via Twitter that a second season has been commissioned from Fortiche. On March 14, 2022, Riot Games announced a new equity investment in Fortiche Production. Under the terms of the investment, which closed earlier this year, Riot now holds a significant non-controlling stake in Fortiche. Brian Wright (Chief Content Officer at Riot) and Brendan Mulligan (Director of Corporate Development at Riot) have also joined Fortiche's board of directors.

References

External links

*
Arcane: Bridging the Rift , League of Legends
- Five part "behind the scenes" video series documenting Fortiche's involvement
''Videos in chronological order''
on the Website of Catsuka (Cartoon-news) {{In lang, fr French animation studios Companies based in Paris French companies established in 2009