User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/Fights - Context and "Homages": An Alternate Reason Why RWBY's Fights Have Gotten Worse/@comment-5717877-20180913225739/@comment-25936766-20180913233525

The fight animators don't need more creative freedom per se. They need to be more concentrated.

They have too many people working on a single fight, each one doing a piece of it, and while that might save time, it's been clear for years that there's little-to-no communication or coordination between them, nor anyone that verifies the things and makes sure it's consistent with itself (or maybe there is someone who does that and they just suck at it).

It's hard to make things consistent when there's too many people involved and there's no real direction or communication between them. With a smaller group, however, consistency is easier as each animator doesn't make a cut, they make a scene, and can more easily keep track of the other things they've done in said scene.

Like if multiple people make a piece of an essay. You use X margins and make sure all the pages you do have those margins, but what if someone else uses other margins? The result would be more inconsistent than if you did it all yourself or at least told them what you used beforehand.