Riot Games co-founder and League of Legends co-creator Marc Merrill has revealed a rough estimate of the cost of making Arcane, and it's not even close to the reported figure of 250 million dollars that has been going around in recent months.
“First of all, the $250 million headline isn't even accurate because it includes marketing expenses,” Merrill said. io9.
“The actual creation budget is significantly less than that. One of the fascinating things is that once a meme settles into people's heads and appears with facts contrary to that narrative, it's sometimes difficult to dislodge a perspective, which It's just fascinating to watch. It wasn't exactly $250. [million]. “It was significantly less than that.”
While Merrill was reluctant to give an exact figure, he was open to a “ballpark” figure that requires a bit of math to calculate: “It's somewhere between 60 and 75% of that estimate.”
Calculators at the ready: That brings Arcane's production budget to between $150 million and $187 million, between $65 million and $100 million less than originally advertised.
Previously, Variety had mentioned the figure of 250 million dollars, a figure that apparently took on a life of its own and grew to create its own discourse around animation production.
Most of the creatives were widely supportivewith production designer and artist Jason Scheier, who worked on Blue Eye Samurai, saying on Twitter: “Let this be the standard example if you want art and quality.”
Arcane executive music producer Alex Seaver also got into the discussion. Regarding the increase in production costs, he said On-screen rant“We don't rent the work to traditional film and television people, which can work perfectly. But for something like this, the special sauce is that it is done in the building and we do all the animation in Paris, in Fortiche.”
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