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Kyuubi10 wrote:

The characters lost their individuality and personality.

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The lead animator is not simply an animator, but he is someone who understand the personalities of the characters, and how to make their personality come to life. (As evidenced by basing Winter Schnee on Sheena)

E.g. Blake walks like a cat...but by Season 3 she doesn't anymore.

I think this would be my biggest complaint. And what I see as the biggest complaint that Shane had in his letter...that the project is being made by too many teams that don't truly care about the same details that Monty cared about. This includes weapons and fighting styles which are all influenced by personalities.

You can see my stance on this, and while I agree completely about the plot, and that Monty was mostly an animator...but there are certain creative decisions which are most suited to the animator....this seems to have been completely overlooked in favour of a more "traditional" workflow. Ok hold up. Give me a single example of how every character lost their individuality and personality? Please, I'd love to read that. And please do not say "oh X did this mannerism like twice and now they don't" because A: saying a character has lost their personality because they don't use a certain ic as often is not a good point, and B: building a character whose personality is intrinsicly tied to a mannerism is terrible writing in the first place.

Secondly, "basing" Winter of Sheena has nothing to do with anything. It also does not mean that Winter and Sheena are the same person by any stretch. Its also not an example of "understanding personalities of characters", one does not have to use a real person for a base to create a good character. Very few of the characters are based on real people anyway, and the ones that are do not have the same personality as them. Hell, Team SSSN are "based on" the members of Big Bang to some extent but that does not mean they are those personalities of the real people.

Thirdly, Blake has never "walked like a cat". Nothing about her walk is reminiscent of a cat at all. Cats do not sashay their hips around because they are not bipedal, and in any case Blake did that hippy walk ONCE. You can't apply really a bipedal walk to a quadropedic animal, especially with this weak a case. If anyone walks anything remotely like a cat, its Cinder, she's got that slow predatory strut down pat.