The Lady in Black

Okay. I came up with this beautiful thing last night, but it’s been a full day since then so my brain may not be quite so… illustrative.

But can we just give the @roosterteeth crew (or, as I like to call this specific team, CRWBY) a standing fucking ovation because this volume has been by far the greatest piece of art I have seen from RT in a very long time. I’m not sure if I can watch Vol 1 anymore because it is kind of like playing Ocarina of Time when you’ve become used to Twilight Princess graphics. Even subtle things, like the camera trembling in Qrow’s initial drunkenness, the soft tick-tock of the gears in Ozpin’s office, the fluidity of the animation in walking and fighting… even the details of eyebrow movement have completely changed the way characters express their emotions and are so much more telling than they had been in the past.

In such a short time, this series has grown so much. Everyone’s skills have improved immensely. The CRWBY have been working their asses off on this, and it is certainly showing. I am so happy for them, and so proud of their hard work.

Jen Brown, Shannon McCormick, Lindsay Jones, and Arryn Zech (ESPECIALLY in this last episode) have done amazing performances in particular. Their characters have gone through so much, and have had to convey such heavy story, and the smallest of inflections show. A fantastic job and applause for them.

Every episode of this volume has been extremely moving. And I’m sure that, come the finale this weekend, my poor little Pyrrha-loving heart will be bawling. But not just for the closure of the volume. For the characters, for the story, for the work.

Now, I believe in an afterlife of some kind. Not sure how to describe it really. But I know for damn sure Monty is proud. We may not have known him personally, but this volume went above and beyond his quality standards, and I’m sure he would be anxious to see how Volume 4 tops this.