Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-68.203.90.168-20140129002922

Hello,

First I am amazed. Thank you. As soon as I saw the series on Youtube for free I immediately bought it on Amazon. Probably a good thing that you didn't leave a bitcoin address in any of the descriptions for the videos on youtube as I have been known to on occasion loose my head when excited about something (not that it would be bad) but hey when you find something that really makes you happy why not show your appreciation? Now that I have had some time to think about something reasonable I'd still be willing to tip .1 BTC (approx 80 USD) if I could also get some awesome swag.

I knew that you guys were a small production house but 3 people (4 if you count Patrick) for animating the entire series really impressed me, but this isn't my field. Here is my question:

How many man hours did it take to animate all of RWBY if you include all the trailers and the entire series? Then can you give me another figure for the hours taken to do the concept art?

I do have another question but it is probably unreasonable / unrealistic to assume you might know. If you could possibly estimate the number of hours that another production studio (say GAINAX) would have required 10 years ago to produce the same result could you come up with a ballpark estimate? Did you have additional artists help create the backgrounds?

Since the resources needed to create such a well animated series are much less now why is it that we haven't seen a renaissance in the world of animation... or did I miss it somehow (I don't get out much)? Im sure that on another forum somewhere you have answered the reasons as to why you give it all away for free but do you think that another production company could copy your model and make a profit or is Rooster Productions a special case (do you even make a profit)?

I love economics and if you guys ever did an interview where you talk about how to finance the work that you do I would absolutely love to hear it. I wonder if planet money would ever consider interviewing you. I mean they interviewed the "code monkey" guy (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-internet-rock-star-tells-all) you guys are in a special nitche you must have an interesting story to tell. Honestly is there another studio about your size doing work anywhere near as good as RWBY anywhere in the world (again I don't get out much).

Lets say you had an amazing ideal like RWBY 10 years ago, what would have happened to it? Would you have sought out a big production house and tried to pitch it to them? Was it possible to use the computer / software resources at the time to do what you're doing now? How many awesome ideas have died as great concepts with insufficient resources to bring them to production, and if the barrier to entry into the world of animation has been lowered when should we expect to see more great stuff? Do you have any recorded interviews where people have asked you these questions?? To me they seem really important but my perspective is pretty narrow.

Ok sorry for the million questions. Anyways if you have a bitcoin wallet please share and if I get some swag then great if not then not. And by all means consider a possible podcast as I would love to really hear your story (unless of course you've already done such a podcast).

~JD 