Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-24038268-20130929234857/@comment-15108745-20130930000133

No, production of RWBY is a process that takes several months, especially for the first volume where everything has to be made from scratch. Monty came up with the idea almost a year ago and Miles and Kerry began work on the script shortly after that. At this time, concept artists like Einlee and Kristina Nguyen were also brought on to design the characters and environments, respectively. Once characters and environments were designed, they were sent to modelers to be made in 3D. Thus begins the long process of animating every scene. Animation most probably wouldn't go in chronological order. If it's anything like a live action movie, probably the staff at RoosterTeeth were split into different teams. Monty and Shane focused on the high intensity scenes while others worked on other parts of the script for Volume 1.

Recording for characters was done shortly after the scripts for Volume 1 were finished, which was a while back probably before RTX this year. If you look at the RWBY preshow livestream, you'll notice that they make little references to lines that have not even been seen yet as of now so there is no way that recording is done at the same time as broadcasting.

If you have been following Monty or Shane or someone from RoosterTeeth on Twitter, you will notice that they actually just wrapped up production on RWBY Volume 1. The recent live podcast also mentioned that copies have been sent for RWBY Volume 1 DVDs to begin production.