Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-129.49.100.25-20170629155809/@comment-186.93.233.134-20171102171759

ChishioKunrin wrote: 186.93.233.134 wrote: MajoraSolaris wrote: Lancaster has been around longer. Doesn't exactly make it better. Honestly I COMPLETELY abandoned Lancaster once I watched V5E3. I saw the look Oscar and Ruby exchanged and Lancaster went up in flames, in a good way. Goodbye any Arkos competition and hello fullblown Arkos. Now Yang just needs a straight ship that doesn't involve Oscar, Sun, Ren, Neptune or Jaune. In a way, it does make it better; more time to develop a deeper relationship. Besides, if we focus on "looks", the one that Jaune and Ruby shared in V4 is way stronger than any look that has happened so far, it had a deeper meaning than anything, besides, it was supposed to be a hug, but they couldn't make it because of time. They basically implied Lancaster there ;) "but they couldn't make it because of time" The way I've heard it, that's a lie.

They originally planned for it to be a hug, but they changed it to what we saw because they were afraid fans would misinterpret the hug as being romantic.

Besides, it's kind of bullshit to say that they couldn't animate a simple hug in the time it took to animate Jaune putting his hand on Ruby's shoulder and them giving each other a look, especially when they use motion capture for a lot of the casual scenes. It would've taken the same amount of time and effort. Why would they lie about it? And yeah they also said that reason, but the very existence of that reason implies Lancaster even more because -sadly- the community likes to ship, they couldn't do anything for -the obvious- BlackSun because it was part of the script. Also, do you know how to animate? If not, then your reason becomes null; I know a little, having to move two people to embrace each other takes more time that you can imagine, outside of the animation. Imagine to have a dialogue already written, but ideas often comes during the development, then you have to change the script, you have to change situations to make it even better or to explain certain things; workers getting sick, power outage, malfunction of a machine, vacations, familiar situations. Is much more than just sitting in a pc to work, anything can happen anytime.

Also, if they wanted to lie, they wouldn't say anything about the hug in the first place. Is just that people getting worried (because again, people like to ship) was reason enough for not putting the extra effort. Again, that look meant something, and it was the first romantic implication between the two. There is no place to deny it.