Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-4010415-20190201001306

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1. What are you people doing watching RWBY. Watch Gen:Lock.

2. I like Neo's new clothes - give me a bit of a Mad Hatter vibe - but....they look terrible compared to the original outfit or even the one she had in the tournament.

Cinder's clothes on the other hand, they look much better than her V5 one. Actually looks villainous and evil and cool. The previous one made her look like a mom. Also hiding the arm with a coat (mantle? Whatever the term was) > hiding the arm with a giant dumb sleeve.

3. Those are some horrendously shitty barriers, if taking just 1 tower out shoots down the whole circle.

4. Now, that aside I don't hate how the Leviathan was defeated. We all knew Ruby was going to Silver Blast it in the face and if someone thought that wouldn't happen they were being delusional.

Ruby using Jinn to give herself some time to think was clever and I liked it, and I loved how Titanosaurus broke out (just the head, but still).

5. The use of 2D images for Ruby's flashbacks like when they showed Mistral. Aside from the fact that they don't really look very good compared to the 3D used elsewhere, they have models for at least Team RWBY in their Beacon outfits, and Zwei, and Tai. There's no excuse to use so much 2D like that.

6. I admit I was disgusted by Summer's appearance. I knew she was a Ruby clone, but to go as far as to literally copy-paste Ruby, with the exact same outfit as her current one, just with different colors, is just too lazy. Raven in Vol.2 at least had a different outfit from Yang.

7. I noticed while Cordovin charged at the Leviathan that the animation framerate kind of....dropped. It was smooth and fluid before, but then it suddenly gets slightly choppy.

8. I admit I never expected Atlas to be a giant city in the sky. I do wonder though, is the one at the bottom Mantle, or just another part of Atlas? Kinda gives the "High Class - Low Class" concepts a whole new meaning.

9. Also the flying monkeys, sick reference, but....my god the design is the laziest shit ever in this show. They are literally just Beringels with a pair of wings pasted on their back. That's ultra-lazy.

10. A minor thing, but using Obviously-100%-2D effects for the "magic splash" Salem does at the end, they just look bad when everything else is 3D. They should've just covered the screen in black pool liquid instead. It's not like they can't animate liquid, they did a fine job when the Leviathan rose. 1. Watched it. Good shit, good shit, I already love Dr. Webber, even if he is just a typecast for David Tennant.

2. I was actually kinda hype about the new outfits, too. Cinder looks like a pirate, and I like her boots. Neo's looking great. And apparently, this whole time, Neo's had her hair twisted up into a ponytail, so now that she's let it down, she suddenly has a lot of it?

3. Agree, should've just taken out two segments, not the whole thing.

Come to think of it, what's the point of building them that way, when a naval attack from another kingdom would result the same way? Typically, Grimm may not be smart enough to target the little towers, but humans and Faunus are. The Leviathan got lucky because it just sprayed its fire across the wall until something happened.

It looks like Atlas has a Hard-Light barrier around it too, but at least the generator towers look more secure than the ones around the Argus base.

4. Same, I was glad when it turned out not to be enough, and it was pretty neat how Ruby used Jinn. I didn't expect the fact that Jinn stops time to actually be significant like that.

5. But do they have all of the environment assets? A Maya version of Team RWBY's dorm room? A Maya version of Beacon's airship dock? A Maya version of Beacon's courtyard? The alleyway where Penny confessed to being a robot? Etc and so forth.

Btw, on closer inspection, it looks like they literally just took screenshots from the show, drew over the characters, and did some kind of filter on the rest to make the rest look like a drawing.

I kinda liked the 2D, though. It was cute. And it was a clever way to get around the lack of assets for the environment and accurate background characters. The scene with Jaune and the Pyrrha recording was drawn just for consistency. It looks like they didn't give Oscar and Maria the same treatment, though, so that's inconsistent.

Anyway, I actually liked it. I wish they would actually do 2D drawing flashbacks when they have a character telling a story, so we're not just staring at them sitting in one spot going blablablah like they did with Weiss about her alcoholic mother.

6. Actually, she has a different hairstyle, and her eyes are different, but yeah, I noticed that her outfit is literally just a black version of Ruby's current one.

Summer has parts of her hair tied back around her head into a bun that kinda looks a little flower-shaped to me. Tying hair back around the head is an actual hairstyle in real life, and it's usually done with a braid.

Also, the corners of her eyes are pointed, whereas Ruby's are rounded.

7. Ugh, yeah, I noticed too. I thought it was the RT player at first. Hopefully they'll fix that for the Youtube release and the DVD/Blu-ray release.

8. Same. I dunno why, but I was surprised. It's up for debate what the giant crater below it is. Could be a massive mine, could be an open caldera volcano. I personally think it'd be neat if it's a volcano because then the heat rising up from it would keep Atlas from being too unbearably cold.

9. I'm guessing they went "We've only had two Beringels show up, so it seems like a waste of a concept. Let's make the flying monkeys be Beringels so we can use it some more."

Though, gorillas are apes, not monkeys... General rule of thumb is tail = monkey, no tail = ape.

10. Suuuper obviouuuusssss.... Definitely would've been better if they'd just used the 3D goo they had sitting right in front of her.