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At the Annecy Festival we had the opportunity to intervew Fortiche Production, the French animation studio behind the cult series Arcane (season 2 coming soon!).
Fortiche provided us with more details about their upcoming project, the animated feature film Penelope of Sparta, an ambitious endeavor that aligns with the studio’s stylized animation.
Also covered in the interview were their reasons for developing their own IPs, the team’s ambitions, challenges in terms of recruitment and growth, generative AI, working conditions, and their perspective on the studio’s influence on the new generations of artists.
The interview is in French, but English subtitles are available.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Penelope of Sparta
02:24 – Why create your own IPs?
02:57 – “Petit Fortiche” (“small Fortiche”)
04:58 – Antique IP
06:02 – Team, hiring, animation industry crisis
08:36 – generative IA
09:48 – part time, workflow improvements
10:41 – stylized rendering & influence on young artists
