Fortiche Production
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2009
- Employees
- 201-500
- Offices
- 3
About Fortiche Production
Fortiche Production is a French animation and creative production studio founded in Paris in 2009. Its work spans narrative television, animated features, gaming cinematics, music videos and advertising. The studio is known for combining stylized 3D animation with painterly imagery and hand-drawn effects, bringing a distinctive visual approach to both commissioned productions and original projects.
The company developed its early portfolio through music videos and commercials, including work for Gorillaz, Coldplay and Freak Kitchen. Its collaboration with Riot Games began with the 2013 music video Get Jinxed and continued through projects including Warriors, Seconds, Rise and K/DA’s POP/STARS. These productions connected its music-video background with character storytelling and the world of League of Legends.
Narrative production
Fortiche collaborated with Riot Games on Arcane, which premiered on Netflix and Tencent Video in November 2021. The series adapts the world of League of Legends, with its second season released in November 2024 to conclude the Piltover and Zaun story. The studio’s wider television work includes Rocket & Groot and contributions to Rabbids Invasion. Its feature and documentary experience includes animated sequence contributions to The Little Prince and motion-capture animation sequences for Le Dernier Gaulois.
From development to delivery
The studio offers production capabilities from concept design, visual development and storyboarding through character and environment design, layout, animation and final post-production. Its teams handle character effects, crowds, texturing, digital painting, lighting, rendering, compositing, editing and color grading. Creative direction, co-production and executive production also form part of its offering.
Alongside commissioned work, Fortiche is developing original intellectual property. Its announced slate includes the science-fiction animated feature Penelope of Sparta and the young-adult animated miniseries Miss Saturne, in co-production with Arte France and Les Storygraphes. These projects extend a portfolio built across short-form music and gaming productions into longer narrative formats.
More about Fortiche Production
Leadership and governance
- Co-founders Pascal Charrue, Jérôme Combe and Arnaud Delord are identified as Creative Directors in the October 2026 research.
- The leadership team also includes Hervé Dupont, Deputy CEO and Executive Producer; Bruno Le Sassier, Chief Financial Officer; Philippe Llerena, Chief Technology Officer; Aude Belhoste, Marketing and Communications Director; and Cécile Hergaux-Essame, Head of Productions.
- Riot Games executives Brian Wright and Brendan Mulligan serve on the board of directors.
Production methods
The studio calls its hybrid aesthetic the Fortiche Touch. Its pipeline uses Maya, Houdini and Nuke, combining computer graphics with handcrafted textures, hand-drawn effects and live-action camera techniques.
Recognition
Arcane Season 1 received four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program, and nine Annie Awards. Season 2 received four Emmy Awards in 2025, including Outstanding Animated Program, and four 2025 Annie Awards. These are awards for the series.
Operating collaborations
The Las Palmas animation unit was established in collaboration with the SPEGC to expand character-animation capacity for Arcane. Across its regional studios, Fortiche shares leadership, infrastructure, branding and production pipelines.
Notable credits
20 creditsOffices
Where Fortiche Production is based
- 100 avenue de France, 75013 Paris, FranceParis, Île-de-France, France
Paris Studio
HeadquartersGlobal headquarters housing executive leadership, development, full-pipeline production departments and R&D.
- Campus Majoria Pompignane, 895 avenue de la Vieille Poste, 34000 Montpellier, FranceMontpellier, Occitanie, France
Montpellier Studio
Opened 2020
Integrated regional studio with animation, editing and compositing departments, legally operated through Fortiche Animation SAS.
- Calle Prof. Agustín Millares Carlo 10, 4B, 35003 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, SpainLas Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Studio
Opened 2020
Integrated regional animation studio established in late 2020, legally operated through Fortiche España, S.L.
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