Will RWBY Ice Queendom Live up to Monty Oum's Style of Fighting?

Описание: The switch from CGI to anime could have a huge impact on RWBY's fight scenes, but we can't write them off until we see THIS fight happen!
Some people are saying Ice Queendom is great while a LOT of others are writing it off as as disappointment.
From MY point of view we won't be able to say for sure until we get a very specific type of fight scene.
What's my point of view?
Well I can speak from a unique place of experience here that's very similar to the path Monty Oum took.
You see, I may be a fight choreographer now, but back before programs like Poser and Maya existed I was typing out 3D fight scenes
in CODE.
If I wanted to create this dodecahedron I'd have to type a whole matrix of calculations.
If I wanted it to have a wooden texture I'd have to type a novella of code.
No wire frame, just math and render times of up to 24 hours for a single frame of CGI animation.
I discovered what 3D fight scenes are great at and it's the very thing traditional animation is weak at.

Traditional animation is GREAT at taking single hits and making them
look phenomenal! Like the new anime did when it remade this Weiss
fight scene.
Everything in the finishing sequence of Ice Queendom episode 3 is anime's strong
points:
Fire.
Smoke.
Hair and fabric blowing in the wind.
Atmospheric special effects & depth of field blurs.
All things that cause 3D render times to skyrocket.
Shots in POV-Ray took me 18 hours/frame because of the fire - adding smoke tripled that number.

To illustrate traditional animation's weaknesses & what we have yet to see in RWBY Ice Queendom, let's analyze the anime fight scenes from the top anime tv shows of 1998.

Cowboy Bebop S1E1 has an anime fight scene that trounces everything else released in 1998 - Spike vs Asimov. The level of passion on display in Cowboy Bebop fight scenes is at a level reminiscent of Monty Oum's RWBY fights.

Traditional animation's weak points are what won the hearts of us fans when we saw the original RWBY series, from the RWBY trailers to Vol 1 & Vol 2.
What I discovered creating my own CGI fight scenes in POV-Ray was that those are the
things that are 3D animation's STRONG points!
You can focus on creating cool martial arts choreography and combos with almost a complete disregard for how you're going to show it. You can EASILY move the camera and lights to different locations to find the coolest angles from which to film the RWBY fight scenes.
Since the fight choreography is already created as one long sequence, instead
of cutting you can focus on finding ways to move the camera to SHOW
it as one take if you want.

Cheap and easy for Monty Oum to do in Poser, allowing him to focus on his advanced fights choreography.
Making RWBY Volume 9 an anime means cheap and easy for epic-looking single strikes,
but time consuming and EXPENSIVE for Yang's style of fighting.
Yang's close range, intricate back and forth fights with long combos of a variety of moves can't be done cheaply. The producers either have to shell out the money required to stay true to Monty Oum's style of fight choreography or resolve to disappoint fans. There is NO option to hide behind one or two big, flashy moves.

We'll know for sure when we see Yang fight, not a monster, but another person.
That's when they won't be able to find a cheap way out or hide behind big, flashy moves.
Something like RWBY's Yang vs the Malachite Twins fight will be when the anime
shows that it's either willing to pay the extra money to deliver
Monty Oum's style of intricate choreography or it isn't.
Yang is the key.
Yang is the character who will leave them with nowhere to hide.
Are they going to use the anime to find a new audience that doesn't
care about the original style of action as much as we do,
or are the using the anime to reinvigorate the series, to recapture
the imaginations and hearts of us original fans?
Some people have already written the show off, but the truth is that
the answers to those questions are still locked away, and to get the
answers, Yang is the key.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00-0:29 I'm a Discount Monty Oum Clone? (big on the discount)
0:30-0:59 What Anime Destroys 3D Fights In
1:00-2:00 1998's Top 10 Anime are ALL bad at the SAME Thing
2:01-2:42 How Cowboy Bebop is the RWBY of Anime
2:43-3:22 Monty Oum's Style is Everything 3D is Great At!
3:23-4:11 THIS is When we'll Know if Ice Queendom Will do Monty Justice