Arcane is an animated series that is set in a utopian city called 'piltover' and an oppressed district called 'zaun'. The story is based on video games League of Legends by Riot Games. Visually the utopian city adopted Art Deco style with skyscrapers and geometrical decoration, bright and lush with traditions.
While the oppressed zaun visually presented in art nouveau style, organic buildings with dark environments.
Everything in this movie is digitally hand-painted. Not only that but the environment and the characters are combined with 2D and 3D elements. The intricate background, for example, is mostly drawn. This means the lighting and shadow are also painted. The drawing has to be adjusted in a certain way so that it will look realistic in perspective. Fortiche, the producer studio, successfully made a seamless combination between the 2D elements, 2D visual effects, with the moving 3D elements.
In arcane, they deliberately make objects painted, highly detailed and multi faceted by applying it through texture projections, this makes Arcane visually different than other animated movies. Creatively establishing their own identity in animation.
Though this movie adapted steampunk genre where the visual seems to focus on machinery and historical references. I like to see it as an alternate future. What if human decided to create a utopian world. While there's another world where resistance live, no rules. We can see how this movie also show the advancement of science that could figure out a power that almost like 'magic', body modification, and so on.
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