User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E5 - χeep μoving φorward - Impressions/Recap/@comment-26397825-20171116043623/@comment-25936766-20171116140517

Stuff like RTAnimated Adventures doesn't have a big budget because it's minimalistic in nature, it doesn't need it. And Achievement Hunter is mostly just Let's Plays, and the only "costs" it truly has beyond salaries is the cost of whatever thing they break.

RWBY Chibi is also minimalistic. Sure, they need to make the 3D models of things they use, but it is similar to RTAnimated Adventures in terms of how demanding it is to make. It doesn't use, nor require, even half the budget RWBY needs for the average Volume.

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One would assume that RWBY would get much of the money put into it, considering it's success. And indeed, RT went all the way to advertise it, complete with billboards in Akibahara, the otaku heaven.

RT is still not poor though. Costs are insignificant when you make enough money to counter them. And let's not forget that RT also includes ScrewAttack and Funhaus.

They wouldn't keep making more and more stuff if they barely had enough money to maintain what they currently have.