Talk:Volume 5 Weiss Character Short/@comment-206.21.132.104-20170904032352/@comment-4010415-20170904123656

@Demonics Monty was not the only person animating the fight scenes, though. Shane Newville also animated fight scenes, and then they brought on Dillon Gu to animate fight scenes, as well. The problem is that RT's animation department no longer has any of those three.

And may I point out that Volume 3's fight scenes were nowhere near as awful as 99% of Volume 4's fight scenes? (Tyrian vs Qrow was actually good) I think the issue with the fight scenes in Volume 4 was majorly that they weren't used to Maya, but now in Volume 5, they've gotten a handle on how to use Maya. The casual scenes weren't much of a problem because a lot of casual scenes are animated with motion capture now. Someone just puts on a suit and acts out the scene, and boom, all the animators have to do now is animate the fingers and face.

Yeah, the fight scenes still won't have that same incredible feeling that Monty's fight scenes did. I think one thing that would help is if they'd get better at doing a dynamic camera. That, and get better at animating the characters moving quickly during the fight without having awkward pauses between actions. If they move too slowly, it just doesn't have that same exciting actiony feel, and it feels more like a Hollywood movie with choreographed fights between actors who could never fight like that in real life. Make it less "Hollywood actors just doing a set of moves they memorized" and more "Holy shit, Jackie Chan, please slow down" martial arts movie.