Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-24032889-20190131230134

Sinjoh wrote: Hopefully you don't care if I put my two cents on this, too. CRWBY may've not wanted to model a bunch of assets they were unlikely to use again, there's not much sense on making a bunch of assets that's really only going to get a few seconds of screen time. Even if they just took archival footage for the flashbacks, it might've looked very jarring compared to the Maya footage. This isn't like Pyhrra on Jaune's scroll, where you're probably not going to notice it unless looking hard. That too. They're not going to just use screenshots of the previous volumes, and they're not going to re-make 3D scenes in Maya. Just like why they even used 2D in V6 E3, it would take way too much time for all of them when they already had so much 3D strain.

And using the 2D made everything feel timeless, like how the shot of Ruby, Yang and Jaune from the very first episode of the show looked aesthetically identical to the shot of Maria in V6 E8.