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RWBY OC weapon commission for JJ41

#rwby #rwby art #commission #weapon #art commisions

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Nora's electro-hammer/lightsaber hybrid

#rwby #rooster teeth #star wars #rwby art #star wars art #nora valkyrie #magnhild #lightsaber

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Weiss's lightfoil

#rwby #roosterteeth #rwby art #star wars #star wars art #weiss schnee #lightsaber #myrtenaster

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Salem's saber

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Cardin's saber

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Ozpin's saber

#rwby #rooster teeth #star wars art #rwby art #star wars #ozpin #professor ozpin #lightsaber

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Some RWBY inspired lightsbers because they're fun to do.

First up is Torchwick

#rwby #rooster teeth #star wars #rwby art #star wars art #lightsaber #roman torchwick #torchwick

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Hey Everyone- We apologize for the delay on this update. We had hoped to have more tangible progress and updates to present to you before posting this, but an update is overdue. First off, we all want to say how much we appreciate everyone’s patience and continued support for this project. It’s taken much longer than any of us had anticipated, but our team is committed to seeing this project through. Unfortunately this year has been challenging for everyone, and progress has reflected that. While VFX has made progress in the past year, it is not as much as we would have hoped. We’ve lost a number of our artists this year, both due to Rowling’s ongoing bigotry making it understandably hard for people to continue working on the film, as well as unrelated schedule and workload issues outside of the project. We started 2023 with 10 artists on our VFX team, and nowadays even on our best days we have less than half that. This leaves plenty of days/weeks where members of our smaller, but dedicated team are entirely unavailable.

While I presume most of you are aware of the WGA & SAG strikes that shut down much of the film industry from May to November, what many people outside of the industry aren’t aware of was the pressure that came down from the studios on those who work in Post Production, especially VFX, during that time. Many of the talented artists on the TGS team work in VFX as their day job as well, and this studio crunch left little to no time for side projects unfortunately. We had artists report working 60-80 hours a week. Other members of the team were out on the picket lines fighting to protect the industry and their livelihoods. All of this led to a rough summer and fall for progress on the project.       Beyond that, a variety of other struggles have also faced our team throughout this past year. Without going into too much detail so as to protect the feelings and privacy of our amazing team, we have had members dealing with life threatening illnesses, deaths of loved ones, others facing numerous struggles due to rising transphobia, and several who simply had less time for TGS due to being forced to take up lower-wage jobs to survive during the strikes. 

    That said, it hasn't all been negative. We've also had members of our team forced to lighten their workloads due to happier circumstances, such as welcoming children, getting married, or attending grad school. It's not all dark clouds and gloomy circumstances, but one way or the other, the past year has undoubtedly thrown so much at our team that progress has at times become far slower and far less than we would have always liked.

    All of that said, there has been some wonderful progress made this year. After a tremendous amount of collaboration between multiple artists, one of our most deceptively challenging VFX shots, the Dungbomb Prank seen in our very first piece of concept art was finally wrapped up by artist Porter Justus.     Work has also progressed beautifully on various digital establishing shots. After a ton of work, our VFX Supervisor Martin Bayang was able to solve the issue of a particularly problematic Petrificus Totalus shot. There has been continued work on some very exciting Potions and Invisibility Cloak effects, and we recently wrapped up the spells for a very fun Lily versus Regulus altercation. And while not completed, there has been a lot of excellent progress has been made on much of the third act, including many of the most difficult sequences of the film.

     To put some more-concrete numbers on the amount of progress we’ve made versus what we still have to tackle, only about 12 minutes of the film remain unfinished as of the time of this update. The vast majority of the film is just about fully locked, barring color and some slight timing adjustments. Within what remains, most if not all effects are already in progress. Obviously the climactic third act contains some relatively complicated VFX shots that may take slightly more time to complete, but the finish line truly is in sight now. 

   One of the last big updates, and perhaps the elephant in the room, is that this year we also found ourselves forced to finally part ways with a member of our team - our composer. This was an incredibly difficult decision and one that we obviously did not take lightly. In truth, we probably took far longer to arrive at this decision than we should have, given our affection for the person involved and how excited we were about the work they had done. 

   Unfortunately, we reached a point where essentially no new work had been done for over a year, despite multiple efforts to reach out and work through various struggles. Continuing with the same situation and with the same composer simply became untenable and we were forced to make the very difficult decision to move on and try to finish off the last several minutes of music needed with a new voice. We are currently in talks with a talented new composer, and had hoped to have the details locked in place before giving this update, but the transition is taking a bit longer than expected. Moving forward, we are hopeful that we will be able to still make use of all the excellent music that our original composer did create for TGS, but working through the logistics of that between him and our new music team remains an ongoing conversation as of the time of this update. We hope to have more details for you in the coming weeks. As difficult a decision as it was, it does also feel like a dramatic step forward that gives us much more confidence today than we had prior to the decision that the film is actually, finally, nearing completion. 

We have said this many times before, and unfortunately it still bears repeating: no one wants to see this film completed and released to all of you more than we do. Even with the tremendous toll JKR’s vile conduct has taken on all of us, our hope remains that TGS can be a small piece of that universe untouched by the emotional baggage that the canonical franchise now carries. In light of the recent strikes in Hollywood, some attention is finally being paid to the insane working conditions many, if not all, VFX artists are subjected to. They are one of the last groups left in the entertainment industry that is not protected by a union, and as such they face essentially unfettered pressure from the studios they work for. Many of the artists volunteering their precious free time to TGS face these conditions in their day-to-day lives, and have still found it in their hearts to carve out time for our little movie. We are so incredibly grateful for them, for their time, and for the contributions they continue to make to make this film look as great as it possibly can. We are committed to delivering the best possible version of this film that we can to you when all is said and done. 

It has been a long road. The end is finally, truly in sight. Please know that we are eternally grateful for your ongoing support and your ongoing patience. We are very much looking forward to finally reaching the end of this journey, together, and finally being able to share this film with you all. Thank you again, and all our love to all of you and yours in the new year.

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I love them

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y'know it's getting ridiculously tiring that every few months some dipshit on twitter starts a new controversy (it was adel aka this time, just fyi) that gives the witless wonder mob an excuse to rile themselves up and start attacking crwby and the crew then have to speak up to defend themselves from yet another round of heinous bullshit

rwbytubers can all just go straight to hell

#rwby

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First foray into creative writing in a long while

My take on RWBY in the DC universe

JSTC

Prologue

#rwby #dc comics #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #tyrian callows #batman #commissioner gordon #Joker #ruby rose #yang xio long #blake belladonna #weiss schnee

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Ahsoka, but it's 2007

#ahsoka series #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #ahsoka spoilers #anakin skywalker #star wars rebels #star wars

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Had a wonderful time hanging with my friends at Blind Wave this weekend at Indy PopCon

Was mostly just there to spend time with friends, but I got my kitties some keychains because Pyrrha and Cinder deserve it

#rwby #kitty #pyrrha nikos #cinder fall #cats of tumblr #kitties #kittens

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In anticipation of the Ahsoka premiere, I present-

Team GHOST

Kanan Garrus

Color name rule- Kanan is Sanskrit word for "Forest"

Species- Faunus (Wolf ears)

Aura color- Blue

Semblance- Force- A form of telekinesis used to push and pull objects

Weapon- Elegance Dawn- Retractable dustsaber

Misc.

-Has silver eyes

-Went into hiding after Salem's forces found him because of his eyes

-Gets blinded by one of Salem's agents at some point in his story

Hira Syndulla

Color name rule- Hira is Sanskrit word for "Diamond"

Species- Human

Aura color- Green

Semblance- Technopath- Can understand the feelings of, communicate, and bond with technology

Weapon- Pilot's Ace- Dust bolt handgun blaster

Equipment

- The Phantom- A heavily modified Manta-class Atlesian gunship

- The Spector- The Phantom's dropship

- Chopper- An outdated Merlot Industries C1 model maintenance android that Hira rebuilt and reprogrammed. They have a strong bond due to her Semblance

Garazeb "Zeb" Orelia

Color name rule- Orelia is a Latin word for "Golden"

Species- Faunus (Tiger legs)

Aura color- Purple

Semblance- Karabash- Aura energy builds while charging forward for a destructive ramming blow

Weapon- Honor Guard- Collapsible bo rifle

Sabine Wren

Color name rule- A wren is a brown bird

Species- Human

Aura color- Maroon (close enough)

Semblance- Target Lock- Enhanced marksmanship

Weapon- Brush and Canvas

-Brush- Dust infused spraypaint gauntlet

-Canvas- Machine pistol with retractable bayonet

Equipment

- Hard-Light shield vambrace

- Armor forged from the native ore of her village

Misc.

- She's ambidextrous

- Comes from the Vacuan village of Mantle Ore

- Mantle Ore was once an Atlesian mining settlement before being abandoned

Ezra Tandger

Color name rule- Tandger evokes either "tan" or "tangerine"

Species- Human

Aura color- Orange

Semblance- Animal Bond- Can calm animals, sense animals nearby, understand their feelings, etc.

Weapons- Urchin (1st weapon), Rebellion's Spark (2nd weapon)

- Urchin- A bladed vambrace with a high-velocity slingshot

- Rebellion's Spark- A combination handgun and dustsaber

Misc.

- Has silver eyes

- Orphaned at 7 years old

- Hails from Mistral

#rwby #star wars #ahsoka series #ahsoka tano #star wars rebels #sw rebels #sabine wren #hera syndulla #zeb orrelios #ezra bridger #kanan jarrus #rwby ruby

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Holy fuck the Justice League x RWBY crossover goes hard

I need part 2 now, please and thank you

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Yes I think I'm hilarious. No I couldn't be bothered to spend more time on this

#rwby #rwby v9 #volume 9 #rwby spoilers #blake bellodona #yang xiao long #cats

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Bees. That is all.

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