RWBY x Justice League: Heroes and Huntsmen Part has finally dropped! This last project with Rooster Teeth was truly special. A massive shout out to Kate Warner, Karen Linton, Joshua Miller, and Joe MacDonald for trusting/ encouraging me by casting my biggest, most complicated sequences yet on this film. I learned so much during this project in particular and I couldn't have done it without you guys cheering me on!

From the massive 17 character fight sequence at the end of the film (including injected grimm crowds) to the epic two- headed snake fight with Ruby, some of my fondest and proudest moments as a Layout artist so far are on this project.

One specific moment, finding a cheat to have Flash and Ruby fit in the mouth of the creature for sequence 12160 (bridge fight scene; roughly sec 47 in reel). The to-scale creature for the set could not hold two people inside it's mouth as the board portrayed. So I did a little bit of digging into the rig/ problem solved some ideas during the camera scout to pitch the leads of every department. The solution we decided to go with as a team, as the camera zooms/ pushes in I pitched we animate the head scaling up at a cheated pose to give the look of a larger mouth. Then in the following shot, I scaled the monster up 2 and a half times to get the right proportion to Ruby and Flash. Having the camera have a long lens so the setting hid the scale difference as much as possible.

Another proud moment looking back at this project-- especially when comparing it to my first sequences working at RT or even before I landed an industry job-- is how much my cameras tie into the environment and edit as a whole. I really honed in and started applying shakes and moves across cuts in this project unlike any my previous work. I really enjoy seeing how much growth has happened in my two years at Rooster Teeth.

Congrats to everyone who worked on this amazing project and the wonderful team of CRWBY! It was a blast and definitely miss working with such wonderful people!