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Now, none of this is to say that Asha is the only animator who does this, but you’ll definitely see a difference in some scenes in volumes 4 and 5 where Blake barely moves her ears at all and scenes where she moves them a lot. Believe it or not, much of how Blake and her mom, Kali’s ears move are generally reflective of how a real cat’s ears would shift depending on their mood. Blake as a result has been able to communicate more openly with her ears and thus adds a range of emotion and secondary action animation. With faunus characters, what could’ve been misinterpreted as certain characters having ears and tails as prop, can now be seen as genuinely-nuanced behavioral traits. But believe it or not, it’s also been a great moment within the animation team, and it’s not hard to see why. The moment where Blake ditches her bow has been widely deemed as a positive note for Blake’s character within RWBY’s fandom. But how exactly does a character as serious and emotionally withdrawn as Blake bring the most in Asha’s animations? Now I bring up the matter of how Asha does character acting in both dialogue and action scenes, but there is one character who probably brings the most in her style, and that’s Blake Belladonna. The way Weiss swiftly unleashes fire dust, lunges at the beowulves and decapitates a couple of them with twirls and a sense of grace but cockiness are all intentional. Whether or not that’s ultimately meant as a compliment or a criticism, some of those moments are simply due to Asha applying her forte snappy character acting. Some have referred to Weiss’s way of fighting in her character short as more of dancing than fighting. We would then start to see Asha’s skills at animating fight scenes develop further within the volume 5 character shorts, namely Weiss’s.

What sticks out in her shots the most is the way Ren indifferently yanks his father’s dagger off of the Grimm’s flank as he walks towards and defiantly deals with the Nuckelavee’s sudden attempt to intimidate him. One of her first bits of action-oriented animation were Ren and Nora’s successfully-cathartic attempt at pinning down and killing off the Nuckelavee. Asha usually makes character animations feel snappy yet lively through facial expressions or body language while still maintaining who the character is, as seen in the way Jaune’s eyes embarrassingly shift around in her scene.Įventually, her snappy way of animating dialogue-oriented scenes would prove to compliment the fight scenes she would be assigned with. This scene, as faint as it is, is where her way of animating in the show can be identified. Like any animator who starts small when involved in the show, Asha’s first scene in volume 4 was one of team RNJR’s various trekking scenes in chapter 2, where they talk about Shion village and Jaune’s trips with his family. Asha Bishi, a newcomer during volume 4, would be among them. But veteran animators and newcomers for volume 4 had tackled those challenges. This led to a challenge for the animation team, especially with the schedule cutting things close between RTX 2016 and the volume 4 premiere on October 22nd of the same year.

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As a result, various assets had to be rebuilt from scratch and new plug-ins and approaches to using the software were considered.

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But volume 4 was when Maya replaced Poser Pro as the main tool for animation. Contrary to what some might think, Rooster Teeth had always used Autodesk Maya, albeit for just modeling characters at first. Whereas the third volume’s production underwent changes in terms of establishing and adjusting phases, teams, and positions, much of the changes during volume 4 were in terms of the animation process itself. And while that’s true, let’s not dismiss what changes occurred in the latter. I said before that Volume 3′s production had arguably as big on an overhaul as volume 4. This post will be dedicated to two of those animators, one who joined the production in volume 3 and the other who joined in volume 4. And though I’ve referred to a handful of newer names in the web-series’s production, there are more who have become more involved that also deserve a mention. So far in previous Spotlight posts, quite a bit of time has been spent touching on certain animators that have been part of RWBY’s production since the first couple of volumes. 2018 RWBY Animators Spotlight # 5: Asha Bishi & Kim Newman