Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27511601-20170107190552/@comment-4010415-20170710093629

GreyStark wrote: Odds are he did it to save time. he probably didn't think it over though True, he was obsessed with efficiency and wanted to get started on RWBY as quickly as possible. That was one reason they had to use Poser instead of Maya in the beginning - because he didn't want to have to spend time learning Maya's interface and keyboard shortcuts. And then there's the fact that, like I said, the four original trailers were mainly made by him, not the animation team. He probably found it easier to just download some models he had trouble making himself or something. He could've asked the team to help, but he didn't.

At least RWBY isn't as much of a plagiarism fest as Nick Simmons' "manga" Incarnate, which stole character designs, plot ideas, and dialogue and included tons of traced panels. Monty, Miles, and Kerry at least built a world and planned a story from their own minds and have come up with their own characters and dialogue.