Arcane: Bridging the Rift

If you have even a passing interested in modern production values, world-class animation, calculated risk-taking or just chance business decisions giving rise to something beautiful, then this documentary is for you.

I've never been a great fan of "making of" documentaries myself, since I generally find them rather self congratulatory and trite, but this was truly a spectacular look at the sheer effort of will that went into making Arcane.

We get a tiny glimpse of the trials and tribulations, the pain and the risk taken, the leaps of faith and the sheer chutzpah required to create one of the finest animated series ever aired.

Every aspect of the production is given airtime; concept, animation, sound design, voice acting, production, failures and regrouping followed by the final live screening of the first three episodes.

It times I was amazed, at others I was surprised and a couple of times I was actually moved to tears.