"Arcane" scoops 7 Annie Awards!

The 52nd Annie Awards were held on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in Los Angeles. The iconic series from studio Fortiche and Riot Games took home 7 awards for the episodes "The Dirt Under Your Nails" and "Killing is a Cycle".

4 GOBELINS alumni received awards:

- Best Direction: Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue (Video Game Animator, class of 2000), Barthelemy Maunoury (Computer Graphics Animator, class of 2004);
- Best Editorial: Nazim Meslem, Gilad Carmel, Roberto Fernandez
- Best Music : Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver, Simon Wilcox
- Best FX : Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Ressencourt, Adam Bachiri, Guillaume Zaouche, Jérôme Dupré
- Best Production Design: Arnaud Baudry, Julien Georgel (Animateur Infographiste 3D CQ, promo 2002) Faustine Dumontier, Charlotte O'Neill
- Best Character Animation: Tom Gouill
- Best Storyboarding: Joséphine Meis (Animation Designer and Director, class of 2019)

Congratulations to the whole team for this great award!

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, the series had already won nine Annie Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards by 2022.

Champions of their rival twin cities, two sisters battle in a war of magical technologies and diametrically opposed perspectives.