Sourced from Artsation -- Nol is one of the artists on FRWBY (also provided vocals for the V7 OP) and I thought she lived on twitter but found her Artstation by happenstance!
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The Nora Valkyrie artwork I did for the Ever Artists Halloween collab in 2024 [LINK https://x.com/NOLNOL1234/status/1848006970173002139]
I still think how it’s really funny how it took all of Team RWBY and JNPR to take out 1 large Grimm each team, and then Coco pulls up with a gatling gun and no diffs one of the same type of Grimm in her introduction.
I get what they were trying to do, and to don the clown costume for a second it did work on me up until that very thing was pointed out to me when I finally started watching fan content (read: the critics/analyzers). Ruby herself technically does something similar in her character short.
Wait, really? RWBY is Viz’s first fully owned IP?
I can't guarantee that it is, but Viz is primarily known for licensing deals for manga and anime in NA. All the community talk I saw about it was how out-of-character it was for them to buy up an IP for them to wholly own and whether they were equipped to even animate it again (which there has since been news that they've partnered with an animation company).
Though it’s debatable whether Homestuck or RWBY has more popularity (it’s homestuck :D )
No, I agree with you there -- Homestuck was the bane of the internet in the early aughties before ponies came along, it was posted everywhere. On top of that, we're about to get a HUGE wave of brand-new Homestuck fans because Vivziepop's studio is making an animated series out of it. RWBY had a surprisingly large fanbase, but like 90% of it was made of RoosterTeeth fans and it has had a rough time over the decade-plus of its existence, rarely ever breaking containment.