#I’ll probably share the name soon. like a movie director hyping up the trailer

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Also since I’m already yapping so much today, I’d like to share that this morning I finished my first fic since s3 dropped!! Planning to post it by the end of July, hopefully I’ll have managed to stockpile more written fics by then :)

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RTX 2018 RWBY2 Panel Summary

Different crew from yesterday- Gray, Anna Hullum, Kara, Arryn, Joel Mann (Volume 6 animation director) Joe Clary (Lead producer).

Open with the volume 6 short (another panel leaked some of this without music and I will say? I can get the hype, the animation is insanely good). Much like Kerry yesterday, Gray gets cut off by the over-enthusiastic Mixer crew as he was saying “for the people watching the streams-”.

Even CRWBY were surprised when the idea was had to make an Adam short.

Gray repeats that this is the one short for Volume 6 so that as much time could go into Volume 6 as possible.

This is the third trailer Joel has worked on for RTX.

Gray recaps a lot of the RWBY stuff from yesterday- CFVY book, Volume 6 theatre premiere, manga anthologies and Shonen Jump volume 1-2 adaptations, Rock Band.

They showed Chibi episode 15 at this panel (14 had aired earlier that day for first members).

Gray showed off the Manticore Grimm from the animation panel on Friday night. Kerry and Miles were planning a Manticore when a fanartist made one too, so M&K used that fanart as the basis for the design.

Stream gets cut one more time for a Gen;Lock trailer. At a RWBY panel. Thanks Gray. /s. Spending more time looking at this loading screen than I am actually covering the panel.

Q&A finally starts after forty minutes.

What would Blake like more, catnip or weed? Gray: Volume 420. Arryn says catnip, she doesn’t like weed too much and thinks Blake would just zone out if she ever took it.

For the volume 1-2 manga, will any additions made by the manga authors be canon? Gray doesn’t know, but he thinks so. They’re planning it out now and he doesn’t know what’ll get added.

Any weapon features or visual parts that got cut? Gray: I’m sure Miles and Kerry would go ‘Spoilers!’ Gray can’t really say since it could be a spoiler.

If Neo comes back, can Casey Lee Williams do the voice? It’d be awesome but who knows if Neo will ever come back and if she’ll even be voiced.

Anna, if Raven could go back and take Yang with her, would she have? “Raven has made the choices she made. So probably, if she was asked to do it again, she’d… do it again.” Gray: She had to go to the store and get some cigarettes.

Do you guys follow any fan fiction? Gray: Our lawyers will tell you that we say no. Apparently, the CRWBY coming up with a character and having to scrap it because an OC uses a similar weapon or fable motif and they have to avoid a potential lawsuit.

What non spoiler stuff can you tell us about Ironwood? Like what’s beneath his pants? Kara: “Well his name’s Ironwood... “ Arryn says that Ironwood is gender-fluid (probably not canon). Gray jokingly shills the aforementioned fanfiction. Shame this didn’t get a proper answer.

Since Ruby and Yang have both got their ass kicked by Neo, when will Weiss and Blake join the party in getting their teeth kicked in by Neo? Arryn scoffs at that notion. Kara notes that Neo is named after ice cream.

Given the reception to the Cross Tag Battle, have you contacted ArcSys regarding a full RWBY fighting game? Gray: “If I had that announcement, do you think I wouldn’t have teased it by now?”

Favorite volume to work on/watch? Kara loved Volume 4 and the fundraiser episode. Anna went for season 5. Arryn: I loved when Blake burned her house down and blamed it on everyone else. One of Gray’s favorite episodes is still PVP so maybe 3? Joel goes with Volume 4 and loved working on Chapter 7 (he got to do the mocap for Tyrian in that fight). Joe plugs Volume 6.

Animators, what’s the difference between the choreography of volumes 5 and 6? Joe says that the team tries to improve how they script fights every year.

Favorite spoiler moment where you were waiting for the fanbase to catch up? Arryn and Kara say Pyrrha dying. Joel goes for Weiss getting stabbed by Cinder in Volume 5. Kara mentions how as a White Knight shipper that she loved seeing Jaune save Weiss.

Now that Remnant has opened up beyond Vale, are there any plans for another incident like Team Indigo from the Lazer Team Indigogo? Gray says yes, they’re working on implementation but they want to do it again.

Do you want to include live action skits for RWBY or a movie? Gray seems to laugh at the idea given the Season 2 Christmas episode and the Nora coffee skit. He does love some of the live action stuff that the fandom gets up to. He’s not against the idea of a RWBY movie but wonders if they’ll “Avatar it.” “Do you have faith we wouldn’t Avatar it?”

Since we learned that Raven was the Maiden, is the point of her mask to hide the Maiden eyes, and how long as she had the mask? Gray hums. Again, not sure if he can answer it but it’s a great question (I’ll mirror that, best question at RTX so far).

Can you share what the core theme of Volume 6 will be? Gray: “Cool.” Gray actually did ask M&K what he could say for that and they never got back to him.

My fellow Spacebattles user @sunderthegold asked: Is the Belladonna mansion Ghira’s actual house or was it just the house for the chieftain? Gray admits he might be wrong but he’s pretty sure it might be the Belladonna family house, so Blake grew up there.

Arryn steals more merch passes it out.

Any more products regarding CFVY beyond the book? What a dumb question, didn’t catch the answer. Regardless, Coco is already coming soon to Chibi

What is the extent that you’ll push the age rating for the spinoff content? Gray thinks they should go for it all, “short of the hentai but we’ll leave it to the fans.”

STILL. NO. STUPID. SHIPPING. QUESTIONS!!! I’m getting hopeful. I shouldn’t get hopeful.