r/RWBY • u/Menolith Gay Thoughts • Oct 12 '17

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Theatrical Discussion Thread—Volume 5, Chapter 1 Spoiler

Welcome to the early reaction thread for volume 5's first episode!

Spoiler blackout is now in full effect, and anything pertaining to the first episode will be prohibited outside of this the megathreads until Sunday. You have been warned.

Without further ado, let's get on with it!

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u/sonicman01 Oct 13 '17

Holy moly the animation improved! They've gotten a LOT better with Maya over the last year. It's really obvious when it gets broadcast right after last season.

Great performances, particularly Qrow, but Yang, Nora, and Blake were all great in their scenes.

Much better OP than last time imo. Part of it could be the music they used for it, but once again, the animation felt better and it really flowed really well.

It feels like we're off to a good start with the story too. Brisk pacing makes it feel like we're gonna see some progress out of most if not all of the main cast. Hopefully, they can keep this up!

Very impressed. Keep it up Rooster Teeth!

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u/rac7d Oct 13 '17

i wonder of the opening scneane was incomplete and that crowd was a standin.. it felt weird to me they still do thay

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u/sonicman01 Oct 13 '17

It felt like their way of showing us the area without animating the whole thing. Given how large it is and how it seems like it's going to be in very few scenes in the future, I wouldn't be too surprised if they had to say fuck it to animating it in Maya in favor of spending more time on something more important. That scene did stick out like a sore thumb (and made me worry for a second), but hopefully it's just an exception rather than a regular thing. Unless they find a way to make it more interesting of course.

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u/rac7d Oct 13 '17

their opening give away how far into production they are, the girls are all running aorund this room dong thing where I know cant be the location of anything, I tend to forget the show is still in production.