Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-14909251-20160519201129

SketchyOpus wrote: If she was an amazing, sweet person who did quality work for free, I don't see them being assholes about it and kicking her out. But if she came in acting like an entitled witch ... She could have been both, neither or someone in between. I don't know.

What I do know is that Sheena and Shane have value, sure, but apparently the cost was too high for RT. (And we're not even talking about money.)

I don't think they were doing away with all things Monty but I do think they were doing away with all the lingering quirks/special treatment he got away with being the creator.

As for animation, Shane was clinging to what he knew, which was Monty and Poser. Poser is a pedestrian 3D program meant for small, non-industry companies and those that need simple animations or models. It's a pain in the ass program because the poly count is high and the rendering time is attrocious. No one in the industry teaches it, so, good luck hiring qualified people.

If Shane were ballsout about quality animation, he'd be loving Maya and whatever else they brought on, because you can do so much more with it, with far less effort exerted at the end. And you can hire quality people to use those programs. Yeah, it sucks using it at first, there's a learning curve. But it's worth it to see a jump in quality.

The manifesto made it seem like he was less focused on quality and more focused on sentimentality. I do think a lot of his complaints about animation were just him being particular and sentimental, as far as Sheena I think it is a bit much to suggest she would have had to have done something wrong or behaved badly for them to eject her. Your third paragraph says it all in that she was probably seen as someone whose unofficial and unpaid involvement was indulged while Monty was alive, but they felt no desire to tolerate a non-employee being involved in the project or giving her any meaningful official position.