User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/RWBY Schedule/@comment-11188061-20150521020309/@comment-11188061-20150521054624

You should check out the Hi-fi Raver (Yand dancing) MMD then. It's currently the best animated RWBY MMD I've seen yet.

The point is that with MMD, I seldom see animator trying to hide the feet of the characters. Of course most of the surface are flat so there's it'll probably look just as bad when a model in MMD climbs up a slope, but the point is that even during normal walking scenes RWBY manages to make it look unnatural and strives to really avoid having footage of the model's legs unless it was intentional (like V2E3, Ruby and Penny talking and walknig together).

I believe none of you will argue with me that too many battle scenes in Volume 2 suffers from - how do I put this - too many close-up shots and 'movie magic' where the camera angles kept on changing from 1 perspective from another. Those who've seen DF2 will be familiar with the part where Ruby and Blake attacks the Paladin's legs, and the scene from DF2 in my opinion, is still better than RWBY's which came out several years later.

This is just an amateur's opinion, but I feel like the current software they're using - while good - has many flaws that cause certain basic steps to take an unsavory amount of steps to fix and correct. By all means walking sequence at the very least should've been fixed by Volume 2, and even then they still feel unnatural and off. They've also cut corners left and right and made an experiment out of Volume 2 trying out many styles, causing many people's rating of Vol.2 to be lower than even Vol 1 (which remember, was practically crunched out with severely limited budget, time and manpower).

Monty is eccentric in his own way (common among all artists, scientists, writers, etc), and he has an abnormally strong attachment towards certain things he enjoys, and sticks to habits that in his opinion is the best way to do things. If you listen to the podcast Gus had to make some difficult calls to specifically order Window XP, or a Window 7 that looks like Window XP because Monty likes XP design the best and cannot stand working without, especially since it'll disrupt his routine.

Of course once you give a thorough explanation of the benefits and how it'll increase productivity etc then he'll accept it in no time at all (read Sheena's blog), but otherwise... yes we cannot say that despite his abnormal working hours, not much productivity is also lost due to his eccentric choice of software, hardware, method of working etc.