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Also the animation method needs to be considered too.

A lot of RvB, being a Machinima, merely uses the Halo engine, meaning everything is ready made, though certain scenes do require genuine animation. The animation would require the Halo models to be copied onto a standard animation, edited to flow properly, then re edited to fit the rest of the scene, and even then they screw up. Remember Season 12 Carolina vs. Felix?

Camp Camp I'm not sure but I think is flash animation, and I'm not sure if that or hand drawn is the more expensive method, though I would assume at the least that hand drawn is more time consuming.

As for RWBY though, RWBY is an entirely original model production. Sure they do use basic designs for body types and standard buildings, but the majority of RWBY like the weaponry, fight scenes, and character designs are original models, which takes proper time to render, animate, and touch up, and as we've seen, even with time their animation can be slacking. RWBY Chibi is a whole nother ball park since I'm not sure they had base models to start with.

That just leave's Gen:Lock, and if the concept art Dishwasher made is any indication, they're more likely to use cgi than flash, so again, more time and money.

Then there is when they are being produced to consider. Concurrent Productions could add stress on the staff and create problems in the long run.

Camp Camp and RWBY Chibi both are Summer Productions, so assumedly they would be produced around the same time, granted Camp Camp may start production a bit after RWBY Chibi due to it being Flash instead of CGI.

RVB Season 15 started about a month and a half after RWBY Volume 4 concluded, so the production for it could have started around the time they finished producing RWBY. However, it continued as RWBY Chibi and Camp Camp were airing, so it may have been produced with them.

This would mean Summer, Winter, and Spring all have productions airing. Gen:Lock would have to be aired in the Beginning of Fall in order to minimize concurrent airings, but even then the production schedule may overlap, which would divert the money all over.