Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27511601-20170107190552/@comment-4010415-20170310003952

24.113.51.246 wrote: It is entirely possible that someone at Rooster Teeth contacted Montecore and TDA and asked to use the models in a for profit show. It is also possible that they bought the Montecore models from melon books to be used in the show. If memory serves, if you buy the model from melon books, you can use it for whatever, as long as you don't shave the bought model.

The thing that people forget is that Monty Oum was pretty big in the 3d animation world for... 8 years as of his death. I wouldn't be surprised if all he had to do was ask them.

It might also be that the people at Rooster Teeth compiled all the model assets from sites where the orignal uploders didn't credit the sources. There are a lot of things behind the sceens we may never know. Though it would help if Rooster Teeth actually came out and said where they got the models from. Exactly!

Instead of looking at all the possibilities, so many people are immediately jumping on "This looks like this, therefore Rooster Teeth stole these models like a bunch of assholes!" It's just not right to immediately say "I lost respect for Rooster Teeth, they're just model thieves" when we don't know if the models were stolen, and if they were, we don't know if Monty did it without Rooster Teeth knowing. If Rooster Teeth themselves have nothing to do with model theft, they should not be the ones taking shit for it.

And I've pointed out before that it is known that they have actually bought models for RWBY before. The original Atlesian Paladin from volume 2 comes from a model you can actually buy!