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ChishioKunrin wrote: KNN005 wrote: Not using the gun because they're hard to animate is bullshit. It's not that they're hard to animate. It's that the rig that the nunchucks had was shitty and overly-complicated, due to it being something Monty had made years and years beforehand when he wasn't quite as good at rigging and animating yet.

The animation he used for Sun's nunchucks against Roman in Black and White was not a new animation. He was reusing an animation from an old project that used that overly-complicated rig, while throwing in gunshot visual effects and falling gun shells.

So, "they're hard to animate" is not the problem. "The rig is hard as shit to work with because it's much more complicated than it ever needed to be" is the problem. After volume 2, Monty began working on figuring out a way to give it a much simpler and easier-to-use rig, evidenced by some of the tweets he made about it, but I don't know if he ever completed it. Found the tweet in which Monty stated that Sun's old weapon rig was a complex rig he'd slapped together and the tweet in which he said the new one will be so much simpler that he'd be able to make new animations for it instead of having to reuse his old nunchuck animation. And the Facebook video where he uploaded an old project he'd made several years before 2014, which contained stuff he ended up using in RWBY (he actually points out Sun's nunchucks animation and says one of the people doing punches was planned to have shotgun gauntlets).