Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-27997419-20160517110246

I think most people discussing this are missing the true point of both RWBY, Monty's goal and the message Shane is trying to carry across...

RWBY is not just a great storyline (obviously thanks to the writers), RWBY is a showcase to great animation! Monty was an animator first and foremost, and when he thought of RWBY, he did so from an animator's perspective.

Shane's obvious focus is that the animators are now being treated as tools to bring a story to life...when instead the story was meant to include cool creative animation, which would very likely be pointless to the storyline, and the job of Miles and Kerry was to create a story around that new cool scene created by the animators.

RWBY's focus has now turned entirely to the plot, and the animators are only tools to drive that plot forward...but that was never Monty's vision. (As described by Shane)

And this is what Shane was trying to save... When Monty died, the writers took over control of the storyline without any creative input from the Animators, which is what they should have done.

Shane, who worked the closest with Monty as an animator, should have been the natural replacement to the creative trio bringing forth the focus and importance of the animation.

RWBY as a plot has become truly amazing...and probably will from now on grow bigger than Monty ever imagined it....but it's true, it is not his original creation anymore. It will lack the cool animation which he was well known for.