Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-25936766-20170719140439

Arkantos95 wrote: The fight itself was stilted, but the actual attack animations were pretty fluid. Still a pretty crappy example of fluidity in fights though imo. Actually a great example, if you focus on my actual point: It had more fluid, better done animations. But the fight lacks the original spark, the "Amazing" factor.

And that's how I feel with this fight: Sure, the animation was more fluid than before, better done, higher quality. But it lacks the Flash, it lacks the Spark that Monty and Shane's style had, it doesn't make one's jaw drop to the floor from the high-speed awesome.

That is why Fluidity < Flashyness. It's one thing to look good. It's another thing to look fun. Even if fluidity can make things look better, you shouldn't sacrifice existing flashyness for it. Otherwise, you get Water: Fluid, but unimpressive.

You can survive with little fluidity by being flashy, however, and that's what RWBY did originally. As long as the people are entertained, they won't care if it isn't as fluid as a liquid during the fights, because the fights are amazing nonetheless. But when they lose that "Wow" factor, it can only look pretty.

@Spirit: Say, what if the Summons are Plasma(ish)? Just a thought.

Aside from that thought....I don't quite think it'd need to be Steam instead of, say, simple Ice to give them that "hazy/smoky" look.

Source: My freezer. It releases a similar hazy white cloud when I open it, especially in cold days.

I do doubt it's Wind though, it's not Windy as much as Smokey. If Dust is truly involved, I choose Ice, even if Steam is another option.

Though I doubt Dust is really involved at all with the Summons. Sure, they look snowy with some glowing cyan, but that's mostly due to the inversion of the typical Grimm colors:

Black > White. Red > Blue. Then if Yellow > Green, it would explain the Cyan bits. Then the question is, what happened to the bone plates? I can only assume Doyllistically that they aren't recolored because then the dogs would look ugly.

.......Although thinking about it, I recall that back when Grimm Eclipse was in alpha, there was at one point a White Beowulf, with grey claws and yellow eyes. IIRC, it had no Bone plates either (even though it freaking blocked hits like a damn boxer so it was not a baby), or at least they were also white like the fur.

Assuming Winter's Beowulves are derived from that one in style, it provides another Doyllistic explanation.

@Chish: Ah, now I see.....

......Mmmm....Jeff called The Path of Isolation "Mirror Mirror 0.5", didn't he? Maybe the message will change if we put their lyrics one after another?