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Shane was also sore about changes in how the workflow in the animation department was changed, but to be quite honest, they might have changed workflow to something more professional and sensible. After all, the whole reason that they were using Poser Pro was simply because Monty was used to it and didn't want to learn and get used to Maya's interface and keyboard shortcuts. That decision was not a sensible one. They spent three volumes animating in Poser Pro, an animation software that's not usually held in high regard, instead of animating in Maya, which is an industry standard.

Personally, I feel really bad about blaming Miles and Kerry for the issues in the writing of volumes 1 and 2, when some of that actually wasn't their fault, but rather Monty and Shane's via their "Do awesome things without thinking about how it affects the writing" mindset. Miles and Kerry had to try to clean up messes left behind by that, by doing things like nerfing Coco and explaining away the Paladin's easy defeat as "It was just a prototype", but they can't fix the fact that the whole thing about the Paladin chase scene doesn't make sense from a "Why did the characters do that?" standpoint nor the fact that there were no consequences for the chase scene happening.