User blog:The Bespectacled Guy/General RWBY Stuff 1

Hello. My name is The Bespectacled Guy, and this is the first blog post of a series I hope to make, called 'General RWBY Stuff' (inventive, I know). I plan to discuss RWBY-related topics I consider important. So, without further ado...

What People Think Of RWBY So Far
Firstly, reactions to RWBY. These range from mostly positive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1D1YnBvkuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndn0HZ1LxM

...all the way to this thread I found on 4chan (apparently everyone hates RWBY there):

http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/86871646/

N.B.: Be warned - it's not pretty. Contains strong language with some mild Japanophobia and anti-semitism.

TL;DR Version: There have been some mixed reactions to RWBY over the months since the last trailer was released. What this implies for the future of the show I do not know, though I will be interested to hear what professional critics think of it.

The Silhouette People
Any thoughts on this? At first, when I saw that passers-by in the show were left as blank silhouettes, I attributed that to the pressured schedule Monty and co. have to produce the show. However, I have since been told that the unimportant characters were left as shadows intentionally, to draw more attention to the protagonists.

I can neither confirm nor deny this as a fact, so I will instead demonstrate my mixed feelings about this.

Make no mistakes, the silhouette effect can work well in the right environment.

<--  Here, for instance. The setting is a dimly-lit street at night, and we can clearly see which characters our focus should turn to (in this case, it is the villains who merit our attention). The passers-by are just innocent bystanders, nothing more. They are living out their own existences that are completely irrelevant to the show's narrative. They may as well just be shadows.

Here, on the other hand, it just looks bloody stupid. -->

This is a case of the animators trying too hard to maintain focus on Ruby and Yang, which, since we were only going to be looking at them anyway (what with them, you know, being the main characters and all) is a completely futile endeavour.

So, to summarise, I'm going to be a fence-balancing pest and say that, all things considered, I neither like nor dislike this addition. It doesn't taint the show by any means, though at the same time I think it isn't really necessary.

And Another Thing...
The new, redesigned beowolves totally look like the enemies from Temple Run.



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