Talk:RWBY/@comment-28171999-20180801164114/@comment-25936766-20180902221035

The issues with the writing are, for the most part, not justifiable with a "they have little budget" excuse. There are literally shows with even less budget and production value than RWBY Volume 2 or even Vol.1, that have better writing than RWBY has in present time.

With each Volume the "low budget/manpower" excuse becomes weaker and weaker, while the writing problems become less forgiveable because the public expects the team to, you know, get experience, learn, improve.

So when they keep making writing mistakes, or make them even bigger than in previous Volumes, people get frusfrated. Especially since it's already been 5 seasons, 5 years. People who could forgive problems in Volume 1 won't be so willing to forgive the ones in Volume 5.

RWBY was never expected to be "groundbreaking" in terms of story, in fact Monty himself said he wasn't even trying to be original. But that doesn't excuse bad/lazy writing. And this is all leaving aside the writing of the fight scenes.

With the animation, that depends. There are clear improvements each Volume, but there's still the problem of the animation team having next-to-no coordination with each other, especially during fights. The character movements might look smooth, the visuals might look good, but that doesn't excuse the teleportation between cuts, among other things.

And with the increase in budget and manpower, the times when they go the lazy route with animation become less excuseable. In Volume 2, we got multiple shots of 3D Vale with 3D People walking around and talking. In Volume 5, 3 years later, with more money, people and a superior animation program, instead of doing the same with Mistral, we only got cardboard shots that look more like concept art.

The animation might improve, but it doesn't mean much if the CRWBY doesn't put it to use.