Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.216.174.239-20150202232333/@comment-24435688-20150203035434

I'm not too worried about the show. If monty hasn't shared ever detail about his plans for RWBY and what he dreams of it becoming to at least Miles and Kerry, then I would be very impressed.

Miles and Kerry (probably) know the world and story of RWBY as well as anybody and they're both good writers. I'm not worried about the story.

The animation obviously is the key point here. The fight scenes were (are) one of the biggest selling points for the show and now the master mind behind them has died. The most logical solution is simply hire a new animator who can imitate Monty's style. With the amount of people he inspired in his life, I'd imagine that there are a fair number of them. Shane will also probably take over since I remember him helping Monty and even doing some fights by himself. (The dual between Pyrrha and Mercury, for example.)

Ren's voice actor probably isn't an issue either since (as mentioned previously) Monty didn't do much in the way of voice acting and anyone with a decent monotone could probably fill the void.

However, the biggest issue I see with this development is the amount of creativity that Monty supplied. The use of fandom ship names for battle techniques and Neo was a spur-of-the-moment addition by Monty. Things like these wouldn't have happened without Monty and I'm worried that Miles and Kerry won't be able to pick up that slack.