Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-27121183-20160518222549

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: What I'm concerned about is that this is more about their feeling that she is an outsider interloping in their affairs and only got away with it because she was married to the creator, so now that he's gone they no longer have to put up with her interjecting herself into the business. If she was an amazing, sweet person who did quality work for free, I don't see them being assholes about it and kicking her out. But if she came in acting like an entitled witch ... She could have been both, neither or someone in between. I don't know.

What I do know is that Sheena and Shane have value, sure, but apparently the cost was too high for RT. (And we're not even talking about money.)

I don't think they were doing away with all things Monty but I do think they were doing away with all the lingering quirks/special treatment he got away with being the creator.

As for animation, Shane was clinging to what he knew, which was Monty and Poser. Poser is a pedestrian 3D program meant for small, non-industry companies and those that need simple animations or models. It's a pain in the ass program because the poly count is high and the rendering time is attrocious. No one in the industry teaches it, so, good luck hiring qualified people.

If Shane were ballsout about quality animation, he'd be loving Maya and whatever else they brought on, because you can do so much more with it, with far less effort exerted at the end. And you can hire quality people to use those programs. Yeah, it sucks using it at first, there's a learning curve. But it's worth it to see a jump in quality.

The manifesto made it seem like he was less focused on quality and more focused on sentimentality.