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Get Your Hands on Arcane: Preorder the Ultimate Art and Making of the Emmy-Winning Series

Sami-Jo Perruzza

Jul 23, 2024 • 6 min read

This fall, Riot Games, Fortiche Productions, and Melcher Media are collaborating with Insight Editions to publish The Art and Making of Arcane. This comprehensive book delves into the art and narrative origins of the Emmy Award-winning animated series Arcane, based on League of Legends and created by Riot Games alongside the acclaimed animation studio Fortiche Productions. Written by Elisabeth Vincentelli, known for her work with The New York Times and ABBA Treasures, the book offers an extensive look into the creative process behind the show's first two seasons, which have garnered both critical acclaim and fervent fan support, making Arcane the first streaming series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Series.

Set for release later this year, The Art and Making of Arcane features never-before-seen art and in-depth interviews with key figures involved in the series' creation. These contributors include Arcane co-creators Christian Linke and Alex Yee, Fortiche studio heads, and supervising directors Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord. The book also includes early designs illustrating the visual evolution of characters, breathtaking background and setting art, and interviews with over 20 key animators, writers, directors, artists, game designers, musicians, and other creators.

The Art and Making of Arcane will be available in three editions: the Artifact Edition, the Portfolio Edition, and the Standard Edition. Each edition includes a Jinx poster, a removable map of Piltover, an in-world blueprint, a Vander letter, foldout spreads showcasing content from seasons one and two, and more.

Standard Edition Cover Art

The Artifact and Portfolio Editions come with exclusive items, including a minimal Jinxed Edition variant, of which only 40 copies will be available. These editions feature unique treasures such as tarot cards, exclusive art prints, autographs, a vinyl album of the season one score by Alex Seaver and Alexander Temple, and two bookends/statues, allowing Arcane and League of Legends fans to immerse themselves further into the world they love.

Portfolio Edition:

The Art and Making of Arcane with a variant cover exclusive to the Portfolio Edition
A special edition blueprint
An exclusive 8-page Progress Day booklet
One Arcane tarot card, randomly selected from four beautiful designs
An Arcane vinyl album featuring 22 songs scored from season one of Arcane in Portfolio Edition-exclusive packaging
A deluxe, hardbound portfolio containing four hand-picked prints of production art from Arcane printed in vivid full color on archival, heavyweight paper

Artifact Edition:

The Art and Making of Arcane with a variant cover, slipcase, and two interior foldouts exclusive to the Artifact Edition, limited to only 1,000 copies
Two stunning, high-quality, ~9"-tall, hand-painted polyresin bookend statues of Vi and Jinx
Two posters, including the Jinx poster from the Standard Edition and a poster exclusive to the Artifact Edition
Three blueprints, including the blueprints from the Standard and Portfolio Editions, plus a blueprint exclusive to the Artifact Edition
An exclusive 8-page Progress Day booklet
All four beautifully designed Arcane tarot cards
An Arcane vinyl album featuring 22 songs scored from season one of Arcane in Artifact Edition-exclusive packaging
A portfolio of six hand-picked art prints: four from the Portfolio Edition plus two prints exclusive to the Artifact Edition
A signature card signed by Christian Linke, Alex Yee, Arnaud Delord, Bart Maunoury, Jérôme Combe, and Pascal Charrue, individually numbered 1-1,000
Certificate of Authenticity

Jinxed Edition:

True to her chaotic nature, Jinx has left her indelible mark on 40 hyper-rare, totally exclusive, and randomly distributed copies of the Artifact Edition. Will you be lucky enough to get Jinxed?

The Standard, Portfolio, and Artifact Editions of The Art and Making of Arcane will be published on December 31, 2024. The Standard Edition is available for preorder wherever books are sold, while the Portfolio and Artifact Editions will be available directly from Insight Editions.

For more information and to preorder your copy, visit Insight Editions. Press materials are available here.

About Insight Editions
Insight Editions pushes the boundaries of creativity, design, and production with award-winning books and collectibles. From collaborations with innovators like James Cameron and Guillermo del Toro to partnerships with global brands including Warner Bros. and Disney, Insight Editions creates stories and experiences for fans, readers, and seekers of all ages that transcend the page. The dynamic catalog ranges from pop culture to photography to cooking to nature conservation.

Learn more at insighteditions.com.

About Riot Games
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, which has gone on to be one of the most-played PC games in the world. In the years that followed, Riot released VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot’s titles have led to the creation of some of the most-watched and widely recognized esports in the world, culminating in events like the League of Legends World Championship and VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), which are watched by millions of fans each year. Riot has also expanded its IP through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and Arcane, its Emmy-winning animated series.

About Fortiche Production
Founded in 2009 by Jérôme Combe, Pascal Charrue, and Arnaud Delord, Fortiche Production is a multi award-winning animation studio, with a unique graphic signature and staging style that blends 2D and 3D techniques and aesthetics. With ambitious directing, the studio creates captivating content aimed at adult and young adult audiences.

One of its most notable achievements is the critically-acclaimed series Arcane, based on the RIOT Games’ IP “League of Legends” and available on Netflix and Tencent. Prior to developing the series, the studio produced cinematic videos including League of Legends: Rise, League of Legends: K/DA - POP/STARS and League of Legends: Warriors - generating billions of views on YouTube - as well as music videos for Coldplay and Gorillaz, and the Rocket & Groot series for Marvel Studios.With a focus on pushing creative boundaries and exceeding expectations, Fortiche Production aspires to create new cinematic experiences at the intersection of animation, live-action filmmaking, and pop culture in all its forms.

Based in Paris, with additional studios in Montpellier and Las Palmas (Spain), Fortiche's teams are composed of hundreds of professionals (up to 450 for Arcane Season 2) covering all stages of development, direction, and production of animated films.