Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-4136655-20190131224813

RaijinRising wrote:

6) It made good sense because they were flashbacks. RWBY hasn't used 2D for flashbacks since its Poser years, but it is still on brand for the show. It's not like Qrow was living in a 2D world when he told his nieces about his mission to Mistral in V3 E4. The only difference is that the 2D art style changed when they moved to Maya. It's the same 2D style they used in V5 E1 and V6 E3. V5 E1 wasn't a flashback, but V6 E3 kinda was, just 2D was used more there because of production constraint than anything else.

I stand with Blizz here though because it shows that this is how Ruby remembered them better, even if you'd understand they were Ruby's memories from the way the scene worked regardless. 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.