Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43756665-20191229175335/@comment-43757330-20191229215618

Glitchee123z wrote: Nobody could animate fights as well as Monty, tho I'm tired of hearing that, tbh. I realize that we all loved Monty and, in all honesty, I believe he was the best fight choreographer on the planet at the time of his death; but stop acting like he was the only prolific low-profile animator on the face of the planet.

I think RT did what they did because they felt that the RT animation crew knew Monty's style better than anyone else, and that they could emulate it. I think they felt that bringing someone new in would fundamentally change the style of the show, and they didn't want that.

I think this was a fundamental mistake. RWBY is not, nor has it ever been, a show renown for its writing. It's a show that's famous for elaborate and well-choreographed fight sequences. And so, while I don't think anybody wants RWBY to change, it's essential to its legacy that the fight sequences be epic and memorable. And I think the in-house crew has failed to deliver that.

There's not one post V3 fight scene that has impressed me tbh. There have been some that have been servicable, but I'm not going to remember any of them ten years from now. I'll remember the food fight and Yang V Neo for the rest of my life, but everything after V3 is already fading from my memory.

I think they absolutely should have brought someone else on board to steer this show into the post-Monty era. They didn't, and they're now rudderless because of it. If it had been me in Miles' shoes, I would have contacted MinusT and asked him to be Monty's replacement. He's an animator out of South Korea who luckily speaks fluent english, and imo would have been the perfect replacement they needed. He's been using Blender (which is crap compared to some of the higher-end programs out there) to create fast-paced works of art on a non-existent budget for over a decade now. He would have been perfect.