The Arcadian Archive

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Collecting behind the scenes fun, fascination and shinies from the Tales of Arcadia franchise in one place. Content posted at least once per day!

Gotta link to tumblr for today's storyboards but it's a good one! It was through Tristan Cottin originally found out about the House of Cool using older scripts for their workshops and this one contained a very interesting tidbit we had no idea about prior :) toa-archive.tumblr.com/post/7203763...

The Arcadian Archive

As an addition, Tristan was absolutely lovely to talk to and didn't seem to mind at all some random person from the internet was getting in contact for a hyper specific reason. You can find his...

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At this point it seems like Rémi Salmon’s site is dead dead and won’t be coming back so here’s another of his works! This one is undoubtedly the Hero’s Forge when it was still known as The Pit. Sorry for the delay! Weird bluesky issue.

Visual development by Rémi Salmon. It shows what can be best described as a flat roman Colosseum like structure in how it's a solid wall but full of doorways/windows for an audience to view what's happening all the way down on the floor. There's a big rough painted column just cutting off the camera on the right. The lighting is a golden orange being at the brightest the higher it goes. There's also a very large door with spikes on the top of it sealed shut and a lone figure dwarfed by the sheer scale of the place.

We'll be on festive stuff from tomorrow! Lack of scheduler and increasing health issue inventions is a bad combination. Something that used to knock me out a couple days with bad brain dog is now like a week. Do not recommend.

For fans of @realgdt.bsky.social’s TROLLHUNTERS… I found an annoted copy of Henrik Ibsen’s PEER GYNT from when the writers room was breaking Jim’s arc, wrestling between duties of the human and troll world. Some interesting bits we mined for inspiration, especially the final season! (1/3)

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