Doesn't make it any less sad. It's unfortunate to not get the same kind of animations from now on. P.S.: I despised Hwei's trailer. Just didn't caught my attention at all.
That's what I thought, I even remember the Fortiche guys, in the Making of Aracne documentary, mentioning how working on Pop/Stars was a really big deal for them while Christian was working things out at Riot and how it's success likely played a role in everything.
Doesn't change the fact that we probably will never get another KDA music video like the first one by Fortiche. The reason Riot got Axis to do the All Out video was suspected that Fortiche was just too busy making Arcane season 1 at the time. With how valued their work is these days, I imagine Riot would be putting them on major projects only moving forward. No music videos unfortunately.
Hi there, former Axis Studios employee here, thanks for making this video. I loved working with Riot, I love playing League and I enjoyed watching your lore videos while working on Tales of Runeterra and Wild Rift story trailers (I specially loved working on Braum's episode, my fav champ, and Warwick's Eyes of the Beast trailer). I was lucky to work with some of the most talented people in the business and I'm really proud of it. Its been a rough time, around 260 people jobless, many of them are owed around 2 -3 months of payment from the studio (Axis). It's very sad that everything ended up this way, but I'm happy I was given the chance to be part of this community. Until the next one!
Braum's episode is also my favorite (cus he is also my fav champ :P) and the whole series was amazing, I hope you guys get paid soon all that is owed to you and that you find another job quickly as well. Maybe with your portfolio you could try for a spot in Fortiche? Good luck for you and your former colleagues mate!
Its always sad to see an animation studio going down, especially when some artists will be jobless in an era where its harder and harder to get a job as an artist
@@corleone6630 Nah they really aren't. Ai art is so boring, weird, souless. Ai art feels like when you have a fever, and you're in that half awake dream trance, tossing, and turning.
Axis were responsible for the K/DA 'ALL OUT' era videos, POP/STARS was actually produced by Fortiche. Not that this undermines their legacy tho, it's sad we're losing a great studio that gave us so many amazing cinematics :(
I'm not really a fan of Axis' version of KDA, specifically 'More.' The dance moves feel robotic and too uniform, unlike Fortiche’s KDA 'Pop/stars', where you can clearly see the distinct movements of each member and their individual styles. There’s something about Fortiche’s 2D/3D style that feels impactful, and the motion blur looks convincingly real. But hey, I’m just grateful for the return of KDA during the world's darkest days.
MOREs choreography in the video was a little jankier because it was during covid and they couldn't motion capture in person or something (if I recall correctly) so it's not really the studios fault. You make a good point the dance moves don't look as good but the special effects were really nice in that video as well just like POPSTARS
Yeah I was wondering if someone was gonna address this. Since don't get me wrong I don't think my preference for POP/STARS which was made by Fortiche should speak to Axis's greater legacy.
@@xdax5324Pop/Stars had motion tracking, MORE had to rely on traditional animating since it was made during the peak of the pandemic where every studio are closed and everybody was forced to work in home.
this is the animation industry sadly. I wanted to work in vfx/3d character animation but gave up and pursue electrical work now bc industry is so fucked. layoffs and shut downs are so often, work is unreliable as well
@@jadenquest9544Isn't it crazy that you two could've been coworkers with each other but now you probably won't interact outside of this comment section? Fate had other plans I guess 😢
A small correction on the K/DA music video, only the video for "More" was made by Axis studios, the first one, "Pop Stars" was also made by Fortiche Studios. There's even a video of the models for the devs seen in Arcane during Progress Day doing the K/DA dance a while back.
Just a guess but maybe it's because they aren't getting projects constantly. The cause of that, I don't know but It's not like Riot pushes out cinematics every month and even then, Axis Studios isn't the only studio that they hire. If the projects are uncertain then it's hard to pay your employees monthly which would then lead to eventual layoffs and bankruptcy. And as Necrit has stated, due to the quality of their work, they could be charging a very high amount.
It’s too bad that the world has lost a wonderful and passionate animation team. 💔 It's always our honor to work with Riot Games, not only because they made the best games in the world, but also they provide chances for people who love creating. We had already sent our love and support to Axis team. Whenever these talents need help, we are here.
KDA was mostly made by fortiche, it’s in bridging the rift and they even had a different version where they swapped out the models. The reason you’re not getting more KDA is because they’re making arcane
If they were too, theyd only hire a small portion. If they had too many employees, theyd be forced to use mostly them due to expense, and every trailer would eventually feel the same and get boring
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 Then people should watch the video first to see whether their hunch was correct instead of jumping the gun because the video answers that very question. Not to mention people who clicked on this video are more likely to care about which animations were affected and what that could mean for the future rather than tertiary corporate details. A closed studio involved in Riot's animation remains a closed studio involved in Riot's animation. Owned or not, it's gone. Not sure why people are hung up about an extracted particular detail that was never in any way supposed to be the video's main premise or relevant to its conclusion and results. If they were owned by Riot they'd be gone all the same.
Popstars wasn’t made by axis studios it was made by Fortiche. The writers of Arcane messed up in their writing skills which caused them to rewrite the story while fortiche was already booked. To keep fortiche busy they created KDA to follow that kpop Trend. The KDA which you are referring to is the second version the All out version. The og version like Popstars is from Fortiche
@@amarbilegsharkhuu5595 Yes but Riot did invest a lot into Fortiche. They hold a signifcant stake and some Rioters joined Fortiche's board of directors.
I live in Glasgow where the animation studio resided, I didnt even know about the company until the article about them shutting down came out. I feel like I've lost something I didn't even know about, I can only feel sorry for the animators that are out of a job now
I was hoping that if Riot was to make a full on movie with their outsourced studios, Axis would be a part of it since I loved their work with Riot. So sad to see such a talented studio go down.
Being a sort of nitpick but Fortiche actually started with Ekko: Seconds video, and after that Get Jinxed. ^^' They also made: Warriors MV, Rise MV and Pop/Stars MV, which was then followed by Enemy MV/Arcane. So, Axis in terms of K/DA only did More.
Nope, Get Jinxed was the first MV Fortiche did for League of Legends in 2013. Ekko: Seconds should be the third video Fortiche produced for Riot (after Get Jinxed and Warriors).
Axis was so huge… if I remember right they did the cutscenes for destiny (most of it) and their cinematics as well… I’ll miss their amazing animations……
I've ranted on Necrit's videos before about being in the game industry, yadayada, but this week was a big loss for the game and animation industry. Bungie had a huge layoff and Axis going down in flames has left my LinkedIn looking like a dumpster fire of people announcing they're looking for work. It's sad, and it's a lot of talent that gets dispersed back into the already crowded pool of people looking for work.
It's unfortunate Axis shut down because KDA More had amazing visuals.. like.. amazing. But that said, the studio that did "Still Here" Season 2024 cinematic called "Unit Image" is still.. here.
I just noticed they did a lot of art for my favorite series Love Death & Robots and Kiss Me First, I am on the verge of crying rn, these are my belevoed things to watch
More was actually insane; I loved how much detail they put into the MV and how it's in such a high resolution. It definitely was a high-quality premium video, and it's sad it might not have any follow-ups in that style anymore.
Fortiche didn't just make get jinxed then arcane they did Warriors, Rise and are the one that did the orignial Pop/Stars K/DA MV then they did arcane still sad that an animation studio shut down...
7:59 Studios are credited in the description. At first it was Blur Studio creating Valorant cinematics, but now it's Lightfarm leading the charge. Axis made one or two. (Riot please bring back Blur Studio :c )
I mean there's always the what if scenario, if people really wanted it, and Inoue talk with riot and fortiche to somehow make a character inspired by takezo in runeterra that they could made a champion from to play as in lol, 2xko, lor, en even in the future be a part of me mmo. that's no yasuo or yone and definetly not just a skinline base of vagabond and if arcane bd sales good they might actually become a enterteiment producer insted of a game company that just happens to produce music, animation
im just copyng cuz I got pissed when people actually said that arcane animation was bad when if we ever get a actually good berserk or vagabond show would be a stylized 3D CGI show insted of the approach that studios like ORANGE has for their animes like trigun stampede or whatever the fuck berserk 2016 was
@@QUES4DILL4 Yeah I agree with you. A lot of anime people like to down talk arcane's animations because it won awards. Anime fans always hate on other shows, even within their community, because it is very toxic.
Here's the thing with the Valorant cinematics. The duality cinematic was the only Valorant cinematic that Axis Studio made. The others were made by Blur Studios (Ep1 Duelists, Ep2 Retake, Ep4 Warm Up, Ep5 Shattered, and Ep6 revelation) and LightFarm Studios (Lotus Map Reveal, Neon, Fade, Gekko, and Harbor Agent Reveal Trailers, Ep7 Unmade, Ep8 Reckoning). I'm sure I missed a few there but Riot consistently worked with those two studios for Valorant cinematics with the only outlier being the Duality lore cinematic which came between the Ep1 and Ep2 cinematics. I remember at the time people were complaining that the Duality cinematic looked "off" or didn't fit with the Valorant art style and preferred the style of the Ep1 cinematic which is why I guess that Riot continued to work with Blur Studios and didn't make more Valorant cinematics with Axis Studios.
I wouldn't put it past the Higher ups (CEO, CFO, BoD) to mismanage funding of AXIS studio so hard that even though they got paid, it likely just went straight into the investor yacht fund instead of keeping the lights on.
Arcane was contracted before that, the studio was waiting for the writer team to rewrite Arcane's story so Riot got them to work on KDA in their downtime.
Yes, POP/STARS (and Rise) was something like an emergency project to give Christian and Alex time to rework Arcane, as Fortiche had expanded a lot to handle the production of an animated series. So they had something to work on in the meantime and did not have to fire large portions of their employees.
I can confirm that others cinematics where not made by them. Some agent and map trailers were made by lightfarm studio and others by brunch studio and blur studios. Masters cinematic were made by NMBRS studio. The mill did the china launch. The 2d ones are usually made by wizz with the exception of the anime tribute wich was made by production IG
Bad management sometimes is a big part of this, having great projects and great talent is just one side of the business, if someone was irresponsible, spent too much, made poor business choices, debt will swallow them. Been in that position before and it’s terrible.
There are a LOT of animation studios and projects dying out these past couple of years. It's only seemingly accelerating. Being an artist right now trying to make a living is some of the scariest shit ngl
so many games that was under Axis's umbrella that lost numbers and impact, but people SWEAR that lol is the point outside the curve that is not going down :) with so many proofs that....yes, lol is being destroyed
A tear was shed.. I absolutely love the ALL OUT style of K/DA, this is really a shame. Why didn't RIOT just buy the studio? I hope that Riot will at least hire some of the people that worked there, they are seriously very talented. RIOT needs an in-house studio to make these cinematics.
Bankruptcy is way how to shake up the weight from shoulders and they will continue as new studio in future. If "fully" new animation studio joined the Riot side it will be them.
If we're really lucky, a lot of the animators from Axis will get picked up by Riot themselves and can maybe have a branch to do some of these animations "in house" again! I don't think we'll be that blessed though :(
D: Idk how I didn't see this news sooner. While I like the animations for league I loved seeing the animations for mtg and seeing that they were responsible for a quite a few videos it makes me sad to see them go.
Horribly tragic. Axis is responsible an episode of the Netflix anthology "Love Death + Robots." If you enjoy animation and have never seen it... What the fuck? But in all seriousness, it's a FANTASTIC show full of small, condensed animated shorts that range from comedy to fantasy to sci-fi to straight up horror and Axis brought a LOT to the table for that show. Again, if you enjoy quality animation and haven't seen Love Death + Robots, you NEED to set aside some time and watch it. Edit: For more information, there's three seasons and since it's an anthology, watch order doesn't matter at all. Watch whatever episode interests you with it's description. The episode made by Axis is S2E5 - The Tall Grass My personal favorites include: S1E1 - Sonnie's Edge S1E7 - Beyond the Aquila Rift (Number one favorite episode) S1E18 - The Secret War S2E4 - Snow in the Desert S3E2 - Bad Travelling
i didnt knew they were behind KDA my fav kpop music group, im litteraly hardcore fan om KDA! listing to it everyday! at my job and i hope riot will pick up KDA And a Comeback for every single KDA fan including me!
Despite everything, i really hope we can get a k/da comeback. Its been almost 5 years and they had GREAT music. Hopefully, Riot can make music videos with fortiche again for k/da. They're too good to give up on
How much do you have to f**k up to make such an incredibly talented studio go bankrupt? I can only imagine it was due to some kind of administrative mess, there is no other explanation... I'm someone who never cared about LoL lore, it was literally their Runeterra vids that got me into it! Not to mention i discovered and started following you because of your breakdown/reaction to them... Lol
It is more to do with the state of the UK as it is now. A lot of gaming studios and animation studios have been closed down in the last several years and part of it was due to - Brexit. This means not only loss of funding from EU grants, but also severely restricted the talent pool too - The recession and cost of living has a massive impact too - The government for the last several years didn't really care about supporting the Art and Creative Industries. All of these multiple factors probably least to closure of multiple studios, and Axis is unfortunately the latest victim of a struggling and stagnant UK.
What's sad, is that it's not their fault the game they got hired to make animations for ended up tanking. They just made the awesome-looking cinematics.
I'm getting really tired of studios getting shuttered these past few years. Especially when all the evidence for them points to upper leadership messing up, and/or just wanting more profit while wanting to spend less.
POP/STARS was actually made by Fortiche. Probably the reason we haven’t gotten a K/DA comeback in so long is A. Fortiche is probably too busy working on Arcane full time and like we just found out Axis went bankrupt.
I am pipe-dreaming rn and I know it wouldn't be simple or easy, but it would be amazing if Riot managed to get in touch with the animators for the next K/DA video
Seeing a lot of netflix related projects, KDA, and Valorant being apart of the stuff they worked on...not too much will be missed out on. Sure they also worked on LoR but riot abandoned LoR in that regard a long time ago.
The Studio may have closed down, but they can indeed get someone to make the same thing. You know those who worked on the videos don't die when a studio shuts down... they move on and Riot could end up working with them from somewhere else.
So they were one of the best if not the best, made many incredible animations for big projects, everything they did was massively successful but still got shut down. POV u work in gaming/tech industry in 2024 : Sad that starting from now we will see less awesome animations
Now it is time to call Kevin Feige and Brad Winderbaum and the rest of Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation to make League of Legends Cinematics and make LoL Films and Series co-produced by Riot Games and Marvel Studios
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CORRECTION FOR AN OOPSIE!
KDA: ALL OUT was made by Axis.
The original POP/STARS was made by Fortiche!
Doesn't make it any less sad. It's unfortunate to not get the same kind of animations from now on.
P.S.: I despised Hwei's trailer. Just didn't caught my attention at all.
That's what I thought, I even remember the Fortiche guys, in the Making of Aracne documentary, mentioning how working on Pop/Stars was a really big deal for them while Christian was working things out at Riot and how it's success likely played a role in everything.
i was wondering about that... since i saw bridging the rift : arcane, and they explicitly said fortiche made pop stars
Doesn't change the fact that we probably will never get another KDA music video like the first one by Fortiche.
The reason Riot got Axis to do the All Out video was suspected that Fortiche was just too busy making Arcane season 1 at the time. With how valued their work is these days, I imagine Riot would be putting them on major projects only moving forward. No music videos unfortunately.
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Hi there, former Axis Studios employee here, thanks for making this video. I loved working with Riot, I love playing League and I enjoyed watching your lore videos while working on Tales of Runeterra and Wild Rift story trailers (I specially loved working on Braum's episode, my fav champ, and Warwick's Eyes of the Beast trailer). I was lucky to work with some of the most talented people in the business and I'm really proud of it. Its been a rough time, around 260 people jobless, many of them are owed around 2 -3 months of payment from the studio (Axis). It's very sad that everything ended up this way, but I'm happy I was given the chance to be part of this community. Until the next one!
thats rough buddy...
Thank you for your work and I would be happy to see your work in the future. ^^
Braum's episode is also my favorite (cus he is also my fav champ :P) and the whole series was amazing, I hope you guys get paid soon all that is owed to you and that you find another job quickly as well. Maybe with your portfolio you could try for a spot in Fortiche? Good luck for you and your former colleagues mate!
thank you for Making KDA more and KDA baddest. best music and im hardcore fan of them!
even though most of use have their "dream job" for doing video games or stuff related to it but this industry sadly sucks for employees
Its always sad to see an animation studio going down, especially when some artists will be jobless in an era where its harder and harder to get a job as an artist
Demand and supply. Too many artists -> higher standards and requirements.
It's because there are a million artists
If you want to get a job, don’t become an artist 😂
Artists & designers are the first to fall against AI
@@corleone6630 Nah they really aren't. Ai art is so boring, weird, souless. Ai art feels like when you have a fever, and you're in that half awake dream trance, tossing, and turning.
Axis were responsible for the K/DA 'ALL OUT' era videos, POP/STARS was actually produced by Fortiche. Not that this undermines their legacy tho, it's sad we're losing a great studio that gave us so many amazing cinematics :(
I'm not really a fan of Axis' version of KDA, specifically 'More.' The dance moves feel robotic and too uniform, unlike Fortiche’s KDA 'Pop/stars', where you can clearly see the distinct movements of each member and their individual styles. There’s something about Fortiche’s 2D/3D style that feels impactful, and the motion blur looks convincingly real. But hey, I’m just grateful for the return of KDA during the world's darkest days.
MOREs choreography in the video was a little jankier because it was during covid and they couldn't motion capture in person or something (if I recall correctly) so it's not really the studios fault. You make a good point the dance moves don't look as good but the special effects were really nice in that video as well just like POPSTARS
Yeah I was wondering if someone was gonna address this. Since don't get me wrong I don't think my preference for POP/STARS which was made by Fortiche should speak to Axis's greater legacy.
@@xdax5324 Popstars had body tracking or something though from what i heard so its not really a fair comparison. Was probably more expensive
@@xdax5324Pop/Stars had motion tracking, MORE had to rely on traditional animating since it was made during the peak of the pandemic where every studio are closed and everybody was forced to work in home.
Aint no way, i was actually looking forward in working for the company wtf
Yeah me too. I had conversations
For who axis?
this is the animation industry sadly. I wanted to work in vfx/3d character animation but gave up and pursue electrical work now bc industry is so fucked. layoffs and shut downs are so often, work is unreliable as well
@@jadenquest9544Isn't it crazy that you two could've been coworkers with each other but now you probably won't interact outside of this comment section? Fate had other plans I guess 😢
@@infamouspilgrim213 more like Capitalism
I'm pretty sure Necrit has 13 of those plaid pants in his wardrobe.
I bet it’s just 1 or 2 pairs. 😂
1. Find good clothes
2. By 100 of them
3. Be nice looking forever
It’s just pure laziness.
Pretty sure i have them myself, i use it for slumber parties :)
He does have at least 13 of them. But he only ever wears the same one.
6:40 man I'm sad. That style from KDA More was so good, the idea of not having more of that makes me sad.
Axis did the MORE video
Fortiche (Arcane) did Popstars
He should have pointed that out - kinda misleading
A small correction on the K/DA music video, only the video for "More" was made by Axis studios, the first one, "Pop Stars" was also made by Fortiche Studios. There's even a video of the models for the devs seen in Arcane during Progress Day doing the K/DA dance a while back.
ok but why is this studio dead, i don't understand what lead to their bankruptcy with all these high profile projects!
Just a guess but maybe it's because they aren't getting projects constantly. The cause of that, I don't know but It's not like Riot pushes out cinematics every month and even then, Axis Studios isn't the only studio that they hire. If the projects are uncertain then it's hard to pay your employees monthly which would then lead to eventual layoffs and bankruptcy. And as Necrit has stated, due to the quality of their work, they could be charging a very high amount.
It’s too bad that the world has lost a wonderful and passionate animation team. 💔 It's always our honor to work with Riot Games, not only because they made the best games in the world, but also they provide chances for people who love creating. We had already sent our love and support to Axis team. Whenever these talents need help, we are here.
"Pop stars" is a Fortishe product
This studio made "More" And another all out cinematic
honestly riot could just hire everyone involved in the making of KDA, it would give us what we want and they would make BANK
They want to make money not people happy
KDA was mostly made by fortiche, it’s in bridging the rift and they even had a different version where they swapped out the models. The reason you’re not getting more KDA is because they’re making arcane
That would cost money which is a big nuh uh for them
@@Jclarkis fortiche only worked on pop stars, axis studios worked on More and Baddest
If they were too, theyd only hire a small portion. If they had too many employees, theyd be forced to use mostly them due to expense, and every trailer would eventually feel the same and get boring
The studio did create some cinematics for Riot, but it did not belong to Riot Games.
@@Lunar_Leit Yes, but the title can definitely be interpreted as them being a part of Riot.
@@Lunar_Leit"One of Riot animation studios shut down"
One of riot? This just imply riot owns it
Yeah the title is misleading af
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 Then people should watch the video first to see whether their hunch was correct instead of jumping the gun because the video answers that very question. Not to mention people who clicked on this video are more likely to care about which animations were affected and what that could mean for the future rather than tertiary corporate details. A closed studio involved in Riot's animation remains a closed studio involved in Riot's animation. Owned or not, it's gone. Not sure why people are hung up about an extracted particular detail that was never in any way supposed to be the video's main premise or relevant to its conclusion and results. If they were owned by Riot they'd be gone all the same.
@@BrutalSalamander1 exactly. People complaining about nothing. The studio themselves wouldnt care whichever way u say
It's clearly a clickbaity title
Thank you, Axis Studio, for the best art style for League and Valorant. You guys are the best!
Popstars wasn’t made by axis studios it was made by Fortiche. The writers of Arcane messed up in their writing skills which caused them to rewrite the story while fortiche was already booked. To keep fortiche busy they created KDA to follow that kpop Trend.
The KDA which you are referring to is the second version the All out version.
The og version like Popstars is from Fortiche
Axis will be missed. MORE was a huge moment in my life.
Same. I'll never forget how hyped I was over "MORE"
I was really praying for it not to be the French one when I saw the title
You mean Fortiche? Don't worry, they are fine. Riot won't let that happen.
Fortiche is independent right?
Fortiche is not going anywhere dont worry, they only keep growing and Riot wont let that golden ship sink
@@amarbilegsharkhuu5595 Yes but Riot did invest a lot into Fortiche. They hold a signifcant stake and some Rioters joined Fortiche's board of directors.
@@amarbilegsharkhuu5595 Yes, but, being independent don't exclude you from bankrupcy...
I live in Glasgow where the animation studio resided, I didnt even know about the company until the article about them shutting down came out. I feel like I've lost something I didn't even know about, I can only feel sorry for the animators that are out of a job now
Guess riot couldnt spare any of the money they got from 500$ ahri
I am an animation student in Scotland and Axis was one of the studios I was aiming towards, hits hard to lose them
I was hoping that if Riot was to make a full on movie with their outsourced studios, Axis would be a part of it since I loved their work with Riot. So sad to see such a talented studio go down.
Being a sort of nitpick but Fortiche actually started with Ekko: Seconds video, and after that Get Jinxed. ^^' They also made: Warriors MV, Rise MV and Pop/Stars MV, which was then followed by Enemy MV/Arcane. So, Axis in terms of K/DA only did More.
Nope, Get Jinxed was the first MV Fortiche did for League of Legends in 2013. Ekko: Seconds should be the third video Fortiche produced for Riot (after Get Jinxed and Warriors).
Axis was so huge… if I remember right they did the cutscenes for destiny (most of it) and their cinematics as well… I’ll miss their amazing animations……
Not to forget that they also animated the Love Death and Robots episode „tall grass“ 😳😊
Necrit: "i bet you didn't know they made the KDA music videos"
Also necrit: Scrolling through the animations 5 minutes prior
I've ranted on Necrit's videos before about being in the game industry, yadayada, but this week was a big loss for the game and animation industry. Bungie had a huge layoff and Axis going down in flames has left my LinkedIn looking like a dumpster fire of people announcing they're looking for work. It's sad, and it's a lot of talent that gets dispersed back into the already crowded pool of people looking for work.
It's unfortunate Axis shut down because KDA More had amazing visuals.. like.. amazing. But that said, the studio that did "Still Here" Season 2024 cinematic called "Unit Image" is still.. here.
I just noticed they did a lot of art for my favorite series Love Death & Robots and Kiss Me First, I am on the verge of crying rn, these are my belevoed things to watch
More was actually insane; I loved how much detail they put into the MV and how it's in such a high resolution. It definitely was a high-quality premium video, and it's sad it might not have any follow-ups in that style anymore.
This is what you get when all the profits go to shareholders.
Fortiche didn't just make get jinxed then arcane they did Warriors, Rise and are the one that did the orignial Pop/Stars K/DA MV then they did arcane
still sad that an animation studio shut down...
7:59 Studios are credited in the description. At first it was Blur Studio creating Valorant cinematics, but now it's Lightfarm leading the charge. Axis made one or two.
(Riot please bring back Blur Studio :c )
We miss blurfarm :(
Aww I'm sending virtual hugs to all those people behind that animation studio. Thank you for your service.
11:10 But one sad thing is if Riot fully takes over Fortiche...the idea of vagabond being animated by the studio might not happen 😥
Who said that it will ever happen anyway? Pascal Charrue was only talking about an if.
I mean there's always the what if scenario, if people really wanted it, and Inoue talk with riot and fortiche to somehow make a character inspired by takezo in runeterra that they could made a champion from to play as in lol, 2xko, lor, en even in the future be a part of me mmo. that's no yasuo or yone and definetly not just a skinline base of vagabond and if arcane bd sales good they might actually become a enterteiment producer insted of a game company that just happens to produce music, animation
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 That is why I said "The idea" as an implication that they were interested in it. They didnt confirm anything.
im just copyng cuz I got pissed when people actually said that arcane animation was bad when if we ever get a actually good berserk or vagabond show would be a stylized 3D CGI show insted of the approach that studios like ORANGE has for their animes like trigun stampede or whatever the fuck berserk 2016 was
@@QUES4DILL4 Yeah I agree with you. A lot of anime people like to down talk arcane's animations because it won awards. Anime fans always hate on other shows, even within their community, because it is very toxic.
Necrit is sleeping on the Call of the mountain cinematic.
I don’t understand how with all this and they shutdown…they probably had poor management too.
Here's the thing with the Valorant cinematics. The duality cinematic was the only Valorant cinematic that Axis Studio made. The others were made by Blur Studios (Ep1 Duelists, Ep2 Retake, Ep4 Warm Up, Ep5 Shattered, and Ep6 revelation) and LightFarm Studios (Lotus Map Reveal, Neon, Fade, Gekko, and Harbor Agent Reveal Trailers, Ep7 Unmade, Ep8 Reckoning). I'm sure I missed a few there but Riot consistently worked with those two studios for Valorant cinematics with the only outlier being the Duality lore cinematic which came between the Ep1 and Ep2 cinematics. I remember at the time people were complaining that the Duality cinematic looked "off" or didn't fit with the Valorant art style and preferred the style of the Ep1 cinematic which is why I guess that Riot continued to work with Blur Studios and didn't make more Valorant cinematics with Axis Studios.
I wouldn't put it past the Higher ups (CEO, CFO, BoD) to mismanage funding of AXIS studio so hard that even though they got paid, it likely just went straight into the investor yacht fund instead of keeping the lights on.
Pop/stars was made by fortiche didn't it like save arcane or something?
Arcane was contracted before that, the studio was waiting for the writer team to rewrite Arcane's story so Riot got them to work on KDA in their downtime.
Yes, POP/STARS (and Rise) was something like an emergency project to give Christian and Alex time to rework Arcane, as Fortiche had expanded a lot to handle the production of an animated series. So they had something to work on in the meantime and did not have to fire large portions of their employees.
@@camouflage_cat1973And those things were created like their lives are on their line for real. They cooked.
This makes me so sad. Axis was one of my favourite animation studios.
Here come Mr. The Bearer of Bad News.
hope riot might hire those who worked on the riot stuff for the studio
noooooooooooooooooooo not the studio that made the yordles look SO GOOD
This sucks. Rip all these glorious cinematic and videos.
I can confirm that others cinematics where not made by them. Some agent and map trailers were made by lightfarm studio and others by brunch studio and blur studios. Masters cinematic were made by NMBRS studio. The mill did the china launch. The 2d ones are usually made by wizz with the exception of the anime tribute wich was made by production IG
there are even some episodes of love, death and robots there. really cant wrap my head around how can they go bancrupt with such a portfolio (
Bad management sometimes is a big part of this, having great projects and great talent is just one side of the business, if someone was irresponsible, spent too much, made poor business choices, debt will swallow them. Been in that position before and it’s terrible.
There are a LOT of animation studios and projects dying out these past couple of years. It's only seemingly accelerating. Being an artist right now trying to make a living is some of the scariest shit ngl
so many games that was under Axis's umbrella that lost numbers and impact, but people SWEAR that lol is the point outside the curve that is not going down :) with so many proofs that....yes, lol is being destroyed
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED THIS WENT DOWN THE SAME DAY AS BUNGIE LAID OFF THEIR EMPLOYEES
I hope the same thing doesn't happen to Fortiche 😞
A tear was shed..
I absolutely love the ALL OUT style of K/DA, this is really a shame. Why didn't RIOT just buy the studio? I hope that Riot will at least hire some of the people that worked there, they are seriously very talented. RIOT needs an in-house studio to make these cinematics.
Damn. Which means we will never get a K/DA comeback. This is extremely sad to hear.
Pop/Stars was made by Fortiche not Axis. Axis did the 2020 K/DA
This is really sad, there work is amazing
More is my favourite League related video ever, sad to lose such an amazing company..
Bankruptcy is way how to shake up the weight from shoulders and they will continue as new studio in future. If "fully" new animation studio joined the Riot side it will be them.
After the release of The Final Shape, it is a great time to play Destiny 2. I'm just saying. I'm having a great time.
Then I wouldn’t check the recent bungie news if I were you.
If we're really lucky, a lot of the animators from Axis will get picked up by Riot themselves and can maybe have a branch to do some of these animations "in house" again! I don't think we'll be that blessed though :(
Hopfully it's a new start for them, As we all know, Art never age, Never get forgotten... Even your children drawings at 4 years T_T
Funfact Pyke also has a walk animation
D: Idk how I didn't see this news sooner. While I like the animations for league I loved seeing the animations for mtg and seeing that they were responsible for a quite a few videos it makes me sad to see them go.
You talking about "lagging behind" and video lags out in same time for a second. I had to check if it was video or edit. :D
popstar is from fortiche, not axis, axis made the others KDA videos (with seraphine)
Horribly tragic.
Axis is responsible an episode of the Netflix anthology "Love Death + Robots."
If you enjoy animation and have never seen it... What the fuck? But in all seriousness, it's a FANTASTIC show full of small, condensed animated shorts that range from comedy to fantasy to sci-fi to straight up horror and Axis brought a LOT to the table for that show. Again, if you enjoy quality animation and haven't seen Love Death + Robots, you NEED to set aside some time and watch it.
Edit: For more information, there's three seasons and since it's an anthology, watch order doesn't matter at all. Watch whatever episode interests you with it's description.
The episode made by Axis is S2E5 - The Tall Grass
My personal favorites include:
S1E1 - Sonnie's Edge
S1E7 - Beyond the Aquila Rift (Number one favorite episode)
S1E18 - The Secret War
S2E4 - Snow in the Desert
S3E2 - Bad Travelling
i didnt knew they were behind KDA my fav kpop music group, im litteraly hardcore fan om KDA! listing to it everyday! at my job and i hope riot will pick up KDA And a Comeback for every single KDA fan including me!
The fact that they've done some "Love, Death and Robots" episodes and now hwve to shut down, makes me sad...
oh so that's why valorant's recent cinematics look different from the earlier ones... man...
Idk, they can just go to tencent and say: Make us a subsidiary studio.
Tencent did it with Timi and lightspeed (even competing each other)
Despite everything, i really hope we can get a k/da comeback. Its been almost 5 years and they had GREAT music. Hopefully, Riot can make music videos with fortiche again for k/da. They're too good to give up on
I'm just interested in the studio behind the Porter Robinson song Riot partnered to make.
Fortiche mostly made the KDA videos…. Did you even watch bridging the rift? They even had a version where the swapped out the models that were dancing
It was just the pop/star MV that fortiche made
@@caelloum1374 go watch bridging the rift and learn some things I don’t have time to argue
How much do you have to f**k up to make such an incredibly talented studio go bankrupt? I can only imagine it was due to some kind of administrative mess, there is no other explanation... I'm someone who never cared about LoL lore, it was literally their Runeterra vids that got me into it! Not to mention i discovered and started following you because of your breakdown/reaction to them... Lol
Studio
It is more to do with the state of the UK as it is now. A lot of gaming studios and animation studios have been closed down in the last several years and part of it was due to
- Brexit. This means not only loss of funding from EU grants, but also severely restricted the talent pool too
- The recession and cost of living has a massive impact too
- The government for the last several years didn't really care about supporting the Art and Creative Industries.
All of these multiple factors probably least to closure of multiple studios, and Axis is unfortunately the latest victim of a struggling and stagnant UK.
What's sad, is that it's not their fault the game they got hired to make animations for ended up tanking. They just made the awesome-looking cinematics.
Ironically they got themselves a jinxed.
A beauty to behold. A beauty… to behold. 💀
0:56 i don't know what you mean, at the time this was pretty good quality cinematic
As long as it’s not trash like the 2024 start it should be ok
K/DA All Out was so beautiful... sad
Khó quá thì Riot chỉ cần gọi cho Tencent là vấn đề sẽ được giải quyết.
It's possible that Riot was smart (unusual) and they maintained rights to all of the assets used to create those videos.
Crazy xbox didnt buy them just to close them
My favourite studio is sixmorevodka
finally, League animations done in the Zenless Zone style... ... ..
I'm getting really tired of studios getting shuttered these past few years. Especially when all the evidence for them points to upper leadership messing up, and/or just wanting more profit while wanting to spend less.
5:14 Arcane Twitch design revealed lol. I wish it comes to league
Not Arcane Twitch, its from a series called Love, Death, and Robots
That is a sad news. Animation is great media for stories.
Pyke's animation seems so small and irrelevant, but these little details and info are exactly why I watch this channel. TY!
POP/STARS was actually made by Fortiche. Probably the reason we haven’t gotten a K/DA comeback in so long is A. Fortiche is probably too busy working on Arcane full time and like we just found out Axis went bankrupt.
I am pipe-dreaming rn and I know it wouldn't be simple or easy, but it would be amazing if Riot managed to get in touch with the animators for the next K/DA video
Seeing a lot of netflix related projects, KDA, and Valorant being apart of the stuff they worked on...not too much will be missed out on. Sure they also worked on LoR but riot abandoned LoR in that regard a long time ago.
Sad that art is subject to this savage market and great artists that made beautiful work will be losing their jobs
The Studio may have closed down, but they can indeed get someone to make the same thing. You know those who worked on the videos don't die when a studio shuts down... they move on and Riot could end up working with them from somewhere else.
Funny that we will get valorant cinematic this friday...
So they were one of the best if not the best, made many incredible animations for big projects, everything they did was massively successful but still got shut down.
POV u work in gaming/tech industry in 2024 :
Sad that starting from now we will see less awesome animations
The first one to go viral that you mentioned was done by Blur Studios tho, not riot themselves
1:06 you missed the actual first one, "LoL: Clash of Fates" XD
Also, Onmoyji Cinematics are just the best~ (2:10)
Riot better be paying these animators good after all those whales buying the Ahri skin
Riot has used multiple studios for their groups.
all the others except the last one with the champions 2024 valorant
Now it is time to call Kevin Feige and Brad Winderbaum and the rest of Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation to make League of Legends Cinematics and make LoL Films and Series co-produced by Riot Games and Marvel Studios