Hello and welcome to RWBY where we get our first look at Qrow and Winter
On the animation front, it has degenerated even more. There is now a large amount of shaky cam and still frames to compensate for the fact that the animation has become less fluid and more stop and go; the shaky cam itself reaches the point of nausea inducing as it wildly shifts from one end of the fight to the other with no ability for the eye to keep up. Fight movements have the character poses jump from position to position instead of flowing into each other and movement is wrong with a lot of characters stopping and then moving back. The weapons transformations also aren't integrated into any motion and instead being framed in still shots. There is even one scene where the slash pattern that Qrow does is repeated. All and all, the only parts of the animation that catch your eye are the faults and not the actual animations; the only way the bad animation can be justified is as if the bad fighting is to depict Qrow's cocky nature
Speaking of Qrow, Qrow himself is not a bad character in terms of personality on a conceptual level; he's a cocky drunkard who loves to toy with people during fights but does seem fairly capable. Winter's personality is one that drives me up a wall but I feel it's intentional. She is a high ranking official in Atlas and it shows; her personality is cold and strict even towards her own sister who she expects better from. She does have an impulsive side when Qrow incites her. The two are also voiced fairly well with personality actually being carried through though that comment can actually extend to the rest of the cast now as it seems they have settled into their role.
plotwise, the first half has noting really to discuss. Winter just shows up, some comedy between Winter, Weiss and Ruby occurs revolving around Ruby's out of place nature compared to the formality of Winter and Weiss and then the fight between Qrow and Winter. The second half has more details. Qrow states that he, Ozpin, Glenda, Ironwood and the head of the other academies are part of an unnamed organization that defend the people from Grimm. Qrow also states that the infiltrators that are in the school are "fear itself" and will bring Grimm; Ozpin makes it a point that Ironwood's fleet has made people concerned about what might happen. We then get a small shot of the chess piece symbol that showed when Cinder hacked the communication tower appearing on Ironwood's PDA. It is then shown that that symbol represents a virus that allows Cinder an access point and uses it to set her team up against team CVFY's representatives as the episode ends.
In conclusion, the show's fight animation has gotten worse in Monty's absence but the story is starting to progress faster and may be reaching some point.
Edit: just realized something, Winter uses glyphs just like how Weiss uses it. That makes no scenes because Weiss's glyphs are a semblance and each semblance is supposed to be unique. So if Winter and Weiss both uses glyphs, either the glyphs are not a semblance or semblanaces are not unique.
On the animation front, it has degenerated even more. There is now a large amount of shaky cam and still frames to compensate for the fact that the animation has become less fluid and more stop and go; the shaky cam itself reaches the point of nausea inducing as it wildly shifts from one end of the fight to the other with no ability for the eye to keep up. Fight movements have the character poses jump from position to position instead of flowing into each other and movement is wrong with a lot of characters stopping and then moving back. The weapons transformations also aren't integrated into any motion and instead being framed in still shots. There is even one scene where the slash pattern that Qrow does is repeated. All and all, the only parts of the animation that catch your eye are the faults and not the actual animations; the only way the bad animation can be justified is as if the bad fighting is to depict Qrow's cocky nature
Speaking of Qrow, Qrow himself is not a bad character in terms of personality on a conceptual level; he's a cocky drunkard who loves to toy with people during fights but does seem fairly capable. Winter's personality is one that drives me up a wall but I feel it's intentional. She is a high ranking official in Atlas and it shows; her personality is cold and strict even towards her own sister who she expects better from. She does have an impulsive side when Qrow incites her. The two are also voiced fairly well with personality actually being carried through though that comment can actually extend to the rest of the cast now as it seems they have settled into their role.
plotwise, the first half has noting really to discuss. Winter just shows up, some comedy between Winter, Weiss and Ruby occurs revolving around Ruby's out of place nature compared to the formality of Winter and Weiss and then the fight between Qrow and Winter. The second half has more details. Qrow states that he, Ozpin, Glenda, Ironwood and the head of the other academies are part of an unnamed organization that defend the people from Grimm. Qrow also states that the infiltrators that are in the school are "fear itself" and will bring Grimm; Ozpin makes it a point that Ironwood's fleet has made people concerned about what might happen. We then get a small shot of the chess piece symbol that showed when Cinder hacked the communication tower appearing on Ironwood's PDA. It is then shown that that symbol represents a virus that allows Cinder an access point and uses it to set her team up against team CVFY's representatives as the episode ends.
In conclusion, the show's fight animation has gotten worse in Monty's absence but the story is starting to progress faster and may be reaching some point.
Edit: just realized something, Winter uses glyphs just like how Weiss uses it. That makes no scenes because Weiss's glyphs are a semblance and each semblance is supposed to be unique. So if Winter and Weiss both uses glyphs, either the glyphs are not a semblance or semblanaces are not unique.
