User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Battle scars/@comment-24.158.202.97-20130801115204

There is a system. Ozpin and Goodwitch. You'd want huntsmen and huntresses to be able to work with teams, solo, with good friends and people they would really like to see.....on the other side of the planet, preferably. That's one of the things the teachers are there to teach. Beacon isn't high school; it's college. So keep that in mind; there is a certain level of maturity they are expecting (at least in serious situations). That kinda makes Ruby the genius teenybopper. How the older girls react to someone smaller and younger being -better- than they are will no doubt be the first of many lessons. :D

As for blood and wounds..... I expect Monty & Co won't hesitate to have at least some blood in the right circumstances (as one of anime's strength's is that weapons do damage), but nothing much beyond what we've seen with Wiess, which was no more than an overlay on the texture, or a couple of nodes on the shader tree. They are using Poser for the speed they get out of animating. The more things they pile into a sceen, particularly when you get into reflections and transparency, starts eating away at that speed due to the calculations required. A couple of badly placed transmaps could turn a realtime display into a cold taffy slide show.