User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/RWBY Volume 3 Livestream/@comment-19214484-20160212102134/@comment-4010415-20160212204924

Neo's Semblance isn't just cosplay, silly. She also made that wall in Painting the Town and made a fake of herself while she and Roman fought Ruby in Heroes and Monsters.

Also, I'm pretty sure they're not going to go into full explanation of what happened to Shane, considering the nature of the journal he posted on DeviantArt. He left because he's having a hard time and needs to take some time off to think. That's all we need to know.