User blog comment:AHUnfunnyJ0CK/RWBY Season 2/@comment-24.158.202.97-20131228204612

The production meme they are using is being 6 3episodes ahead of what is showing, so that if there is any problems, they have some space to absorb it without going on hiatus. As we have no  idea where the story is going from here, odds are that there will be several new sets (we haven't seen a fraction of Beacon yet, for instance). As for Vale, it is probably modular, so you just load a module, change the texture, and you have a 'new' section of town (Or we might be spending lots of time in the Vytal festival, which could mean anything at this point). If they aren't in production now, they will start after New Years; then it will be only a matter of how long it takes to get their lead in the can or final stages of editing. End of Jan, maybe first of Feb.