Wow after seeing your video and the beautiful clips of Arcane, I opened netflix, found Arcane and binge watched it. Now I am back here and now I totally get what you're talking about. It definetly was worth the watch and I loved your video about it too. Thanks for talking about this great series.
Arcane has some beautiful environments and character design. I absolutely love the art style that really makes the world feel alive and breathing. I would love to learn that style for concept art.
I like that Art Nouveau preceeded Art Deco by not long, and that they're not too different of styles (and AN must have partly inspired AD), which mirrors the story of Zaun and Piltover. Zaun existed first before the disasters made it a dangerous place to live. Those who could afford to leave made their exodus to build Piltover as a city on the hill above.
Your short video essays are so well made with such attention to detail. You dont take random scenes from the show, but things that actually correlate with what you say (coinflip scene comes to mind). Arcane is a wonderful show and it shows that even corporate productions can thrive with artistic passion, or even enable it further than mere passion-projects.
@@ChromaMoma yeah but distribution of a finished product doesn’t add anything to the product? I guess we can’t expect a UA-camr to have any idea of basic economic theory.
For me, there's another amazing thing about Arcane - the characters look unique. In most animes, the characters look quite similar, without any recognizably unique features. Sometimes their faces even look the same, they just change the hair and accessories, height and clothes. In Arcane, non of the characters look the same.
I loved this analysis! The meaningful lighting and the different contrasts and how they were used to build the world was absolutely inspiring, from the golden glint of Piltover to the dark green and purple motif for Zaun, this show is genuinely inspiring.
i very much fell in love with this art ... it gives very strong feeling . the character feeling human through the face . the creators are not afraid of making character " ugly " when showing emotion . i love it very much .
You're honestly such an underrated channel and I wish I had found you faster. I love the way you put videos together and the way you explain everything.
That was such a great analysis of the series art style. You really captured the essence of not only the visuals but also the rich art history that came with them. Cheers!
This is such an amazing analysis! Especially in only 8 minutes. You've managed to explain the design behind Arcane's art, clarify and define that world with your findings and then expertly relate it into the story while telling a bit of your own with it. Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Some great information and education on the design and artistic choices. Most everyone says "Steampunk (a couple missed by far more claiming Cyberpunk) style. The impact of this was so subtle but strong in this series I can really appreciate your making it the point of this short essay.
I love this video and I love how it points out the art movement inspiration for Zaun and Piltover. You mentioned how short Art Deco and Art Nouveau were by comparing them to the Renaissance, but I think that is a slightly unfair comparison. If you look at art trends on a big scale across history, they were usually very long (hundreds of years) until after the renaissance. Looking at 20th century movements really highlights this. Impressionism was about 20 years (I know it wasn’t 20th century but it kicked off the spiral of the 20th century movements so I’m including it). Expressionism was about 15 years, Fauvism was around 5 years, and Futurism was around 10 years. There are many many more movements in this time period but I’m not going to go into them all. Anyways I’m just saying that AD and AN were not actually very short movements for their time period, it just looks like that when you compare them to much earlier movements. Again, this is a really great video and my comment is only really a nitpick. -someone who absolutely loves modern art history and studied it for a little while in school
I was captivated by Arcane when I saw it, but seeing it through your eyes has inspired me to watch it again with even more appreciation. Great video and story-presenting style!
I feel like watching your videos is like attending an art class Chroma Moma’s art class. I just starting to watch your videos but I’ve learnt a lot and I have been eager to pick up my sketch book and start uploading some videos. For the longest I’ve been afraid
Thank you so much for making this. I am currently working on a two-year project to make a large scene from Arcane out of Lego. I was a bit stuck on how to conceptualize the different art styles and you just laid it all out! Thank you, Thank you!
So, with a degree in graphic design I studied both of these styles and should have spotted this was what Arcane was doing, but I didn't. I'll give myself the excuse that I was too wrapped up in the story and the mind-blowing animation style. Glad I found this video to clue me in, so obvious once you pointed it out. Cool video, thanks so much for posting.
finally watched this video after binging arcane. I'm going in for seconds cuz of the tremendous rewatch value; I'll be sure to pay attention to the visual distinction of art noveau and deco between the two districts.
You've heard of Arcane, now hear of the studio with the same name that makes video games with the same art style. Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider, Prey, Deathloop. Yeah.
Definitely similar, and Arkane does make great games! I'd say that Arcane the show has some Dishonored styling but also Bioshock and Bioshock infinite styling, plus plenty more. And some really original stuff too of course!
One correction. Art Noveau came off the back of the Franco-Prussian War/War of German Unification not the Napoleonic Wars which were about 80 years earlier.
I love Art Nouveau & I love Arcane so I love this- thank you 😍 I even live in an Art Nouveau house so I guess I felt right at home in Zaun 😂 4:54 Oh my gosh, that's the Marienplatz in Munich o.o Didn't expect that & it's so surreal to see D: (I also love Brutalism so I'm excited for Noxus xD) I also freaking love how this highlights what I've always loved about LoL (I only played it for a very short time as a teenager xD): the designs. As the game wasn't really my thing I wished they'd do something with all the character design & world-building so Arcane was a dream come true for me- & they delivered something beautiful 💙 Awesome video- & you just brought back all the Arcane feels 😭💕
Thanks for sharing all these insights! I'd like add my take to your next-to-final point. That every dev on the project adding their own bit of creativity results in something as incredible as Arcane. I'd nuance that with keeping creative people aligned and focused on the same vision (in my experience) is extremely difficult. I'm a tech artist in game dev and all of my team members are wanting to push their contribution to a higher level. We're all creatives wanting to do better than we did before, you know? But, one person's pet project to improve the quality of their contribution can so easily disrupt another team member's work. Or someone decides to do a thing to make this character better than the last, but this new thing causes the character to break in-game. Now the team has to scramble to either make the game handle the new thing correctly or the character needs to be reworked to exclude the new thing. Both options costing unplanned time. This is part of why Arcane blows my mind.... how did they get that many creative people to push the quality level and stay aligned with each other well enough to produce something so special?? I guess in my experience it's common for me to see creative professionals try add to and improve on each iteration of their work. But, it's uncommon that every creative professional on a team manages to stay aligned on a coherent end-product. To be disciplined in choosing only the pet-projects that support and enhance the vision of the end-product. To be considerate of how your pet-project affects the team and project. In my experience this type of creativity has never been managed well. It only works when each individual shares a similar level of commitment to the vision, consideration for their teammates, awareness of the consequences of their actions, and creativity and passion for the project. There's lots of talented, hardworking, and smart individuals out there. But much fewer teams of such individuals who also manage to work together as one organism toward a shared goal.
I loved your video ! I watched Arcane but even if I saw the difference between the two parts of the cities, I could'nt put a word on it so thank you for all these informations !!
I fall in love with art deco and art nouvou and i am goint to try to learn more about it, thank you, for this video i love it, pd: i'm from spain so my english is bad, i tried to my best
Wow after seeing your video and the beautiful clips of Arcane, I opened netflix, found Arcane and binge watched it. Now I am back here and now I totally get what you're talking about. It definetly was worth the watch and I loved your video about it too. Thanks for talking about this great series.
Arcane has some beautiful environments and character design. I absolutely love the art style that really makes the world feel alive and breathing. I would love to learn that style for concept art.
Same 😭
I like that Art Nouveau preceeded Art Deco by not long, and that they're not too different of styles (and AN must have partly inspired AD), which mirrors the story of Zaun and Piltover. Zaun existed first before the disasters made it a dangerous place to live. Those who could afford to leave made their exodus to build Piltover as a city on the hill above.
Your short video essays are so well made with such attention to detail. You dont take random scenes from the show, but things that actually correlate with what you say (coinflip scene comes to mind). Arcane is a wonderful show and it shows that even corporate productions can thrive with artistic passion, or even enable it further than mere passion-projects.
Netflix has no contribution towards Arcane none other than distribution. Productions are all in Riot and Fortiche hands. Great video btw.
Money is contribution
What money?
@@ChromaMoma yeah but distribution of a finished product doesn’t add anything to the product? I guess we can’t expect a UA-camr to have any idea of basic economic theory.
@@ChromaMoma that's like saying if I buy the Mona Lisa painting right now then I have contributed to Leonardo Da Vinci's production?
@@guccipucci3941 and who tf are you? the president?
I already thought that arcane’s art was amazing, but it has much more to dive in. Great job analyzing this!
For me, there's another amazing thing about Arcane - the characters look unique. In most animes, the characters look quite similar, without any recognizably unique features. Sometimes their faces even look the same, they just change the hair and accessories, height and clothes. In Arcane, non of the characters look the same.
I loved this analysis! The meaningful lighting and the different contrasts and how they were used to build the world was absolutely inspiring, from the golden glint of Piltover to the dark green and purple motif for Zaun, this show is genuinely inspiring.
i very much fell in love with this art ... it gives very strong feeling . the character feeling human through the face . the creators are not afraid of making character " ugly " when showing emotion . i love it very much .
You're honestly such an underrated channel and I wish I had found you faster. I love the way you put videos together and the way you explain everything.
Thanks for the video.
My theory why they look sperated was because the lighting of the environment
Good point!
That was such a great analysis of the series art style. You really captured the essence of not only the visuals but also the rich art history that came with them. Cheers!
This is such an amazing analysis! Especially in only 8 minutes. You've managed to explain the design behind Arcane's art, clarify and define that world with your findings and then expertly relate it into the story while telling a bit of your own with it. Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Some great information and education on the design and artistic choices. Most everyone says "Steampunk (a couple missed by far more claiming Cyberpunk) style. The impact of this was so subtle but strong in this series I can really appreciate your making it the point of this short essay.
I love this video and I love how it points out the art movement inspiration for Zaun and Piltover.
You mentioned how short Art Deco and Art Nouveau were by comparing them to the Renaissance, but I think that is a slightly unfair comparison. If you look at art trends on a big scale across history, they were usually very long (hundreds of years) until after the renaissance. Looking at 20th century movements really highlights this. Impressionism was about 20 years (I know it wasn’t 20th century but it kicked off the spiral of the 20th century movements so I’m including it). Expressionism was about 15 years, Fauvism was around 5 years, and Futurism was around 10 years. There are many many more movements in this time period but I’m not going to go into them all. Anyways I’m just saying that AD and AN were not actually very short movements for their time period, it just looks like that when you compare them to much earlier movements.
Again, this is a really great video and my comment is only really a nitpick.
-someone who absolutely loves modern art history and studied it for a little while in school
now this is GOOD, this is a great video. thank you for making this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Omg I didn’t think u cover arcane!! This is amazing!!
It's too good!
Thanks for this new perspective on the show, did not know much about art
Amazing video and analysis it was so good that I never even stopped to think about it
I was captivated by Arcane when I saw it, but seeing it through your eyes has inspired me to watch it again with even more appreciation. Great video and story-presenting style!
I feel like watching your videos is like attending an art class Chroma Moma’s art class. I just starting to watch your videos but I’ve learnt a lot and I have been eager to pick up my sketch book and start uploading some videos. For the longest I’ve been afraid
Such a great video on Arcane! Loved the insight into the art styles and now I can't wait to see season 2 :)
Thank you so much for making this. I am currently working on a two-year project to make a large scene from Arcane out of Lego. I was a bit stuck on how to conceptualize the different art styles and you just laid it all out! Thank you, Thank you!
We need more stuff like Arcane dude
Arcane is a masterpiece. 💜
Epic video dude This made want to watch it
Thank you! :)
Interesting and well illustrated video, thanks for sharing!
Many thanks!
So, with a degree in graphic design I studied both of these styles and should have spotted this was what Arcane was doing, but I didn't. I'll give myself the excuse that I was too wrapped up in the story and the mind-blowing animation style. Glad I found this video to clue me in, so obvious once you pointed it out. Cool video, thanks so much for posting.
i loved the video. great content, and after watching this it easier to identify the references and influences on the world-build.
finally watched this video after binging arcane. I'm going in for seconds cuz of the tremendous rewatch value; I'll be sure to pay attention to the visual distinction of art noveau and deco between the two districts.
You've heard of Arcane, now hear of the studio with the same name that makes video games with the same art style. Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider, Prey, Deathloop. Yeah.
Definitely similar, and Arkane does make great games! I'd say that Arcane the show has some Dishonored styling but also Bioshock and Bioshock infinite styling, plus plenty more. And some really original stuff too of course!
@@Merlincat007 Yeah wow defo big bioshock vibes especially all the underground science stuff..another game that built a really deep atmosphere
One correction. Art Noveau came off the back of the Franco-Prussian War/War of German Unification not the Napoleonic Wars which were about 80 years earlier.
Bro I love you 4 real, it was sooo interesting, like how do you know all of that! I love the analysis, the examples and everything about this video
Man you are really good story teller.
Wow your video and story is amazing, thank you so much for creating this c:
This was super interesting. Loved the analysis 👌🏽🤌🏽
Wow, amazing video! Thank you so much for making it, it's incredibly informative. Looking forward to seeing more like this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love Art Nouveau & I love Arcane so I love this- thank you 😍 I even live in an Art Nouveau house so I guess I felt right at home in Zaun 😂
4:54 Oh my gosh, that's the Marienplatz in Munich o.o Didn't expect that & it's so surreal to see D:
(I also love Brutalism so I'm excited for Noxus xD)
I also freaking love how this highlights what I've always loved about LoL (I only played it for a very short time as a teenager xD): the designs. As the game wasn't really my thing I wished they'd do something with all the character design & world-building so Arcane was a dream come true for me- & they delivered something beautiful 💙
Awesome video- & you just brought back all the Arcane feels 😭💕
Wonderful job, thank you so much !!!!!
Thanks for sharing all these insights!
I'd like add my take to your next-to-final point. That every dev on the project adding their own bit of creativity results in something as incredible as Arcane. I'd nuance that with keeping creative people aligned and focused on the same vision (in my experience) is extremely difficult. I'm a tech artist in game dev and all of my team members are wanting to push their contribution to a higher level. We're all creatives wanting to do better than we did before, you know? But, one person's pet project to improve the quality of their contribution can so easily disrupt another team member's work. Or someone decides to do a thing to make this character better than the last, but this new thing causes the character to break in-game. Now the team has to scramble to either make the game handle the new thing correctly or the character needs to be reworked to exclude the new thing. Both options costing unplanned time.
This is part of why Arcane blows my mind.... how did they get that many creative people to push the quality level and stay aligned with each other well enough to produce something so special??
I guess in my experience it's common for me to see creative professionals try add to and improve on each iteration of their work. But, it's uncommon that every creative professional on a team manages to stay aligned on a coherent end-product. To be disciplined in choosing only the pet-projects that support and enhance the vision of the end-product. To be considerate of how your pet-project affects the team and project.
In my experience this type of creativity has never been managed well. It only works when each individual shares a similar level of commitment to the vision, consideration for their teammates, awareness of the consequences of their actions, and creativity and passion for the project.
There's lots of talented, hardworking, and smart individuals out there. But much fewer teams of such individuals who also manage to work together as one organism toward a shared goal.
I loved your video ! I watched Arcane but even if I saw the difference between the two parts of the cities, I could'nt put a word on it so thank you for all these informations !!
Not really what I wanted to know but definitely very informative.
Those were beautiful insights bro
Glad you think so!
Zaun is almost always showed by night, and Piltover by day
You were the one who made me start two sletchbboks - one rough and formal - and i am sorry i didnt sub earlier
YES EXACTLY THANK YOU
Its hard to not see the dishonored art style there
Thanks for the cogent insights.
I fall in love with art deco and art nouvou and i am goint to try to learn more about it, thank you, for this video i love it,
pd: i'm from spain so my english is bad, i tried to my best
great video
Thanks!
Very good Video! Thank you :D
great work
Enlightening ! bravo et merci
6:48 ignore this comment it’s for myself
hey moma can u do studio ghibli art style
ok but where the mech doe T^T
nice editing tho
Reminds me of Dishonored and Bioshock Infinite
Really reminded me of spiderverse
It the same as Dishonored in term of artstyle
Please noxus
Anyone notice the voice is so low? Even with high volume
This art is ugly, the show would have been better 3D animated in the same style as League's music videos.