>>98029222Honestly Shane probably would have quit anyway given his disagreement with how things were being done there. And the production would have also suffered, simply because of his insistence of doing it "monty's way".
Now granted, making sure senior animators are in charge of the fights make sense. That was probably his main point that I actually agreed with, but the guy clung to seriously outdated and inefficient methods of production:
-Resistance to changing to Maya. They were in the process of changing supposedly as RVB had already switched over, but Monty held that transition back quite a bit.
-Lack of industry standard procedures. No storyboarding, no central repository of files/clips/rigs etc, everyone had things on their own desktop or portable hard drive. RT has complained several times in Podcasts about how thy've straight up lost these hard drives for other shows and only been saved because Gavin obsessively archived stuff on his own personal drives.
-Letting Monty dictate scenes, overriding the ostensible director of the show. I know RWBY was his baby, but scenes like Penny's reveal, the stinger at Volume 2 with Raven, how Pyrrha was originally supposed to die due to Jaune's interference etc all painted a production that was at war with itself.
Now granted I didn't want Monty to die for RT to make the changes necessary to improve production, but there most likely would have been quite a bit more conflict. Shane even asserts Monty was considering trying to take the project from RT and move to LA with Sheena and Shane and try to shop it out themselves through some other company. I don't know the validity to that claim, but given how god-like he revered Monty, it's probably some very skewed interpretation of Monty's motives.