Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.23.148.194-20140119225717/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140120002823

Rooster Teeth is working with what they have. They are a small internet-supported company that makes money off of gaming news and media. Neither RvB or RWBY will ever be as good as they could be if they were released by an actual team of anime developers rather than their amateur production. That being said they relied on company staff, animators and music composers and in my opinion it paid off.

The voice acting is fine, nothing spectacular but it's solid and there is a clear show of improvement amongst the main character's VAs (namely Yang and Weiss who are still rough around the edges though Ruby, Blake, Nora, Pyrrha and Jaune are also showing improvement).. As XDex pointed out the only actual weak link is Lie Ren in terms of acting and even that is passible.

Cinder, we haven't heard enough of her, in fact we've only heard about three lines of dialogue. It's possible that Jessica just isn't 100% comfortable in her role as of yet. You can sense an improvement in VA quality between the trailers and as Volume 1 progressed (most notably the change between Blake in the Black Trailer and Blake in The Shining Beacon). Perhaps all Jessica needs is a few more lines in Volume 2 to get settled into her character's mindset.

Do remember though that at the end of the day all RWBY and even RvB boil down to are quite literally amateur side projects of a company with a different direction. You can't expect RWBY to be produced to the level of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, One Piece or even Soul Eater. Because, unlike those anime/manga franchises RWBY ISN'T being made by a group of proper professionals (hell the creator, director, lead animator, one of the writers and one of the main character's VAs are the same fucking person)