Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-4010415-20170929053703

If anything, I think Ilia is going to change sides and work with Blake.

Yeah, "Monty, go to sleep" became a bit of a running joke specifically because he stayed up for incredibly long periods of time, and he fueled himself with coffee so much that it became an aspect of him as a person that he drank a lot of coffee. Whenever a Volume of RWBY was completely finished, the animation department actually took a break so that they could rest, but Monty would quickly begin working on the next Volume instead of resting. That's actually why Volume 3 had a few things that Monty made. I could be remembering wrong, but I think that bit with Pyrrha dodging Penny's lasers in PvP was a situation where Monty had made an animation of Pyrrha dodging something, and they decided to use it.

There's also the fact that Monty was completely and totally self-taught. His workflow was something he developed himself. His animation habits were something he developed himself. Shane was very upset about the change in workflow, but I'd imagine they changed to a more professional workflow that would be better and more efficient for the whole team, rather than the workflow Monty had come up with to suit himself.

Monty was very stuck in his ways, and like Spirit said, he didn't want to upgrade and use new or better tools just because he would have to learn how to use them. RWBY could have started out being animated in Maya and having the beautiful visuals that it has now, but Monty was used to Poser. He knew how to use Poser. He had all the shortcuts for Poser memorized. He did not want to use a different program because it meant learning a different interface and shortcuts. It didn't matter that Poser was a cheap, limited, low-tier animation program while Maya is an industry standard (for a damn reason). He didn't want to spend time learning how to use something else.