Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-25936766-20160517121335

Kyuubi10 wrote:

-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.

-but it's true, it is not his original creation anymore. It will lack the cool animation which he was well known for. -There may be some merit to what you say...Monty only knew about animation. He only knew how to make awesome fights. When he came up with ideas for different things, he did it to provide cool fights, not thinking of how good they would be from a storytelling PoV. On their own they may sound cool, but this isn't like Dead Fantasy which is nothing but mindless fights one after another. RWBY's actually trying to tell a story.

-The thing is...it was always meant to be like that. The writers make a good story, the animators bring it to life. It's not about making mindless fights carried out by some thin plot thread that barely exists, like Dead Fantasy. It's about making a story, with the fights being part of it. If Monty wanted to do the former, he should've sticked to Dead Fantasy.

Hell, many of the things complained about in Vol.1 and 2, like the heroes being too strong, was thanks to Monty, since he hardly tried to scale their strength to their level.

-It was always like that. The only difference back then was that 1 of the animators, Monty, doubled as creator, and offered his ideas and plans.

-What they should've done was not that. What they should've done was to allow input from Sheena. She was Monty's wife, if anyone knows the most about what Monty had planned, it's her. Shane's letter implied that the writers weren't even checking Monty's ideas and plans anymore, as if instantly assuming they would be crazy and dumb (which, granted, a good number of Monty's ideas were like that), which is just plain wrong.

-Replacement? Or addition? In both cases, bad idea. For the former, he's just 1 person, used to nothing but animation. To replace Miles and Kerry would be more than he can handle. For the latter, he idolized Monty like if he was Jesus in the cross. He would've fought tooth and nail to keep his plans in their original form, regardless of how good/bad they were, and wouldn't care much about Miles or Kerry's thoughts on the matter. It would require much persuasion everyday.

-It's still his cliché creation. He was the creator, everyone knows that, and no one will take that title from him. But it never belonged only to Monty. It was made through teamwork by the people at RT, including him. From the start, the ideas and plans were discussed between Miles, Kerry and Monty, not just Monty. RWBY's still RWBY.

Though I agree with the animation part. The current remaining animators...I don't feel like they match Shane and Monty. And if Shane's letter was any indication, Shane and Monty already had it difficult because of executive meddling.