User blog comment:Jkphantom9/RWBY Vol 3 Production Confirmed at PAX East/@comment-4010415-20150307000533/@comment-11188061-20150307005249

Let's be entirely honest, Monty is probably the only person in the entire RT crew who can look at a 1 year project and say, "Eh, I can finish this in 3 months. 2 if I'm inspiry. Meanwhile I'm going to add nukes into that and that scene" so yeah, with him gone production speed has taken a huge hit. This is actually the normal speed we should be expecting from RT - they have a lot of catching up to do.