Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4820209-20150202184613/@comment-14909251-20150206234013

Not to be crass, but in most respects replacing Monty will not be difficult. They have said several times that they have created a RWBY Bible, which means a lot of the story points have already been planned out with the writing being handled a lot by Miles and Kerry. Getting a new voice actor for Ren is not going to be some sort of huge ordeal.

At this point, the biggest issue would be replacing Monty's role in the animation process. Even in that department I expect there is already someone who was familiar enough with his work or who showed similar promise that they could help fill that gap, probably Shane Newville as others have pointed out above.

There will need to be some staffing changes and probably new hires, so we can expect delays, but I doubt RWBY will be delayed for as long as some of you are suggesting.