Announced live at TennoCon 2024, we're beyond excited to reveal that we have partnered with the peerless animation studio, The Line, to create an animated short for Warframe: 1999!

Get ready to see more of Arthur and the Protoframes in a whole new medium!

The short will be directed by veteran animation director Venla Linna, who first made her directorial debut with the beautiful "Heavenly Vessel" last year, which you can watch on Vimeo (NSFW)!

Venla originally hails from Oulu, Finland before moving to the UK in 2015 where she started working as an Animation Assistant. She joined The Line in 2018 as a 2D Animator. Since then, Venla has worked on a vast variety of projects, including the music video for "Humility" by Gorillaz, and Marvel Snap.

You can see more of Venla's work on her Instagram account as well as on IMDB!

Stay tuned for more details as we hurtle towards the release of Warframe: 1999!

Production Diary #1

It’s time to give you a sneak peek at what The Line is cooking with our first-ever production diary entry! Let’s take a look at Lettie, the reluctant healer of our mysterious Protoframes in The Hex.

Layout by: Venla Linna

Character design: Masha Moran, Venla Linna

The Line is taking cues from traditional anime while incorporating coloured shadow and highlight passes with the character layout work in Warframe: 1999’s animated short. Director Venla Linna came up with the layout for Lettie seen above, drawing inspiration from classics like Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1995 animated feature Magnetic Rose — incorporating depth and detail similar to that of the film.