Fortiche Production
SAS was founded in 2009 and initially created commercials for
Coca-Cola,
Honda,
Samsung,
Panasonic and
MTV. 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 for
Freak Kitchen,
Gorillaz and LIMOUSINE. These projects caught the attention of video game studios such as
Ubisoft, Volition Studios,
Carbine Studios and
Riot Games. For the latter, Fortiche produced game trailers in the form of
short films along with music videos, most notably
Pop/Stars. They eventually joined the production of the series
Rabbids Invasion, which aired from 2013 to 2019 for
Netflix and
Nickelodeon in partnership with Ubisoft, by creating the series' title sequence. 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 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
Riot Games, 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 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 was commissioned from Fortiche. The second and final season premiered on November 9, 2024 and concluded on November 23. On March 14, 2022, Riot Games announced a new equity investment in Fortiche Production. Under the terms of the investment, 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. == Filmography ==