Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4444715-20190406160119/@comment-40271272-20191113215025

ChishioKunrin wrote: Nt3dum999 wrote:

1. also once the Atlas plotline is done the writters have drove themselves into a corner because they made it very clear that travelling volumes only focus on 1 villain tracking the heroes, so unless the villain does some amazing tactics, this trend starts getting repetitive after a while.

2. Also kinda started RWBY at Vol 3´s beginning, like many who started watching the series after Death Battle´s Tifa vs Yang, maybe thats one of the groups finding issues with the drop in quality?

3. And yes, the Writters can still salvage the series and increase the quality again, but with the controversies at Rooster Teeth is doubtful they can do it properly when good animators keep being fired even on vol 7,

4. this should´ve ended on vols 4, with all the animation changes but we´ll see how things go. 1. What do you mean? Volume 4 wasn't all about Tyrian tracking RNJR. Volume 6 wasn't even remotely about Adam tracking RNJRWBY, and Cinder's scenes were just setup for her getting to Atlas later, so she didn't even have an effect on RNJRWBY's journey.

2. You may be right on that. The people who skipped straight to Volume 3 never had to deal with Volumes 1 and 2.

They might even make up a large portion of the people saying "The animation was better before Volume 4", which is hilariously wrong. The animation in Volumes 1 and 2 was so bad. Volume 3 was a massive improvement over the previous two, and even then, Volume 3 still had its issues.

3. If I recall, the company that bought Rooster Teeth is the one firing animators, not Rooster Teeth itself.

The controversy with animators being overworked and not getting paid for overtime was dealt with the moment they fired the person responsible for it, who had been doing it behind the company's back.

The Vic controversy isn't necessarily just a Rooster Teeth controversy/issue like people in the fandom try to make it out to be. It extends to FUNimation as well, and those allegations had been following Vic for damn near a decade already. Rooster Teeth may be different from other companies, but they're still a company, and if one of your voice actors has been surrounded by allegations of sexual harassment for nearly a decade and suddenly ends up with those allegations exploding into a huge deal, wouldn't you think it wise to cut ties instead of holding back your popular money-making show?

'4. The animation change from Poser Pro to Autodesk Maya was an improvement''. '''The only issue that they've had is that no one could really match Monty's fight choreography just yet. They've finally found their legs in animating fight scenes as of Volume 6. There are reasons why Maya is an industry standard in animation, and we have seen notable improvement in the animation from a technical and objective standpoint since the switch.

Refer back to point #2 - the animation in Poser reeeeally was not that great and still had issues in Volume 3. 4- A debatable improvement and here comes the argument for this, while Maya features > Poser´s, if the animators arent given time to adapt to the new program (which btw was shown when characters were literally "teleporting" during vol 4´s fights) and the previous choreography that the early volumes had and it´s a huge part of RWBY´s early identity to the fans, then is it really a improvement? Now I´ll give credit were it´s due there were improvements (the fan portal in Haven, looked spectacular for instance, the updated character designs were to a degree a improvement (though Adam´s zippers were just awful)). This is the thing the shift to Maya had pros and cons and we should be aware of this no?

Like characters "teleporting" to the extent of Vol 4-5 with Maya? Vol 3 was a tournament arc, were you get more fights right off the bat than other volumes, Poser being used doesnt matter, if the fights had been done with Maya they would´ve had similar issues because rushed Vol with more content that had the impact of Monty´s death during production, there was no way Vol 3 wouldnt have animation issues in those circunstances.