Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-26018514-20170410044349

I'm not saying he had a "special style"... far from it, I'm saying he had a single minded focus to show us what he imagined... down to the last detail. This means that everything he animated he wasn't looking to decieve with regard to plot twists, he was trying to show it from his perspective, which led to more plot being revealed than a trained/experienced writer might want... and that now that the animators aren't as tied into the later plot, they can't see the "big picture" to reveal this kind of stuff unintentionally like he did, focused as he was on RoC.

He was an amateur writer and never trained to be an animator, he just did what would be cool for him, hoping it would be cool for his fans... and it generally was, it didn't really need plot twists like Blake being "unexpectedly" a faunus.

Relics? no, but he wanted Raven... we'd almost definitely know more about her by now, and I'd bet she still wouldn't be relevant until later seasons... but no-one who animates Rwby can sabotage the narrative that way anymore... even Merry would have to:

A. realize there is an opportunity

B. discuss it to find what they want to do or if they should do it

C. tell the animators

They can skip B, but unlike Monty they cannot skip C and are not as involved in the animation to see A as often as he could.... there's just no time to change as much for them when they see the animation. By contrast we know he skipped B a lot and found A by himself a lot... it's like half the stuff RT said about his stuff in commentaries.