Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131228183604/@comment-11188061-20131229115048

Softwares nowadays are really convenient. If they're drawing it by hand then yes, it's not exactly easy to do, but remember only the animation is hand drawn. This is purely based on my miniscule animating experience using blender, but all you need to do is to copy the current cloak as a second Object, put a hole in it, then use it as Ruby's cloak. It's definitely not hard, although of course I'm not sure at all about Poser Pro's system.

The fact that the cloak has various sizes, shapes and even thickness (just look at Episode 8, I swear it changed sizes all the time especially when the wind starts blowing) means that they had at least that much time to tinker around with it.

Then again, Monty seems to hate maths a lot, even more so than me - I'll bet that it's one of the main reasons that caused the awkward walking animation besides the lack of time - so who knows... maybe he would rather waste more time manually animating the cloak every time to fit various scenes (like the time he extended Weiss' arm in White Trailer for it to look good from that angle) rather than just relying on numbers.

That's one of the biggest problems with this theory, of course. RWBY has so many animation inconsistencies and errors that it's impossible to say for sure when you're scrutinizing an object like my theory did.