When I started modeling RWBY weapons and putting them on this channel 5 years ago, I had always intended to make the main 4 weapons. The two that intimidated at the start were Crescent Rose and Ember Celica. One, for the number of moving parts; the other because of how it folded onto itself. At this point I have done Crescent Rose twice, but I had still been on the fence about doing EC. I had felt that I needed to improve my skills to give it justice. Also, the fact that it got upgraded to include a mechanical arm and more didn’t help. When asked if I was going to do it, I always said “one day”… well today is that day! I finally feel like I have substantially improved my skills and have the confidence to do more creative things with my models and animation.
I had fun figuring out how Ember Celica works. I wanted to duplicate the transformation as much as possible, but also tried to make sure things didn’t just appear out of nowhere. I’d like to think I did a good job at that. I also tried to do som