RWBYA Actor Commentary

Alan: Hello, everybody. My name is Alan Nomaly, I play the main protagonist of The Alan 10 Adventures.
Pride: My name is Pride, I portray the deutragonist of the series.
Richard: And I am Richard Nomaly, the antagonist of the show.
Alan: And we're here to.... do a commentary of RWBYA.
Richard: Easily the single most stressful project of the series.
Alan: That's a fucking understatement.
Pride: I thought it was pretty easy.
Alan: Bitch, you hardly ever have to show up on set. The most you have to do is just send in line recordings most of the time.
Pride: Coming onto set is hard. They don't like ghosts just waltzing onto set.
Alan: Oh, boo-fucking-hoo.
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Alan: Cold open.
Pride: Now, was this the first scene written, or-
Richard: It wasn't the first of either version of the script.
Alan: The original version of the script had Salem like... Descriping how RWBY works for those that don't watch. And then she's interrupted by the two brothers falling into the scene.
Pride: What was the first of this version?
Alan: Ummmm, how technical do we wanna get?
Richard: There's the scene where you shout at Ruby, but technically the scene where I kidnap you and we go to Earth-ERTH is from the original script, so it would've been first.
Alan: Yeah but it was like... Heavily revised.
Pride: To be fair, that's the entire crossover. This was in development hell since the series began.
Alan: That is- That is... Yeah that's true.
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Alan: So, Richard, what would you say regarding like... Having to act alongside the RWBY villains?
Richard: Watts is a very imposing actor. He knows what he's doing and it's rather intimidating, actually. I had probably the least confidence when I had to do that scene with him in the hallway.
Pride: What about Tyrian?
Richard: Tyrian... I don't know if he's actually that insane or if it's just an act. It's rather scary, actually.
Alan: Was... Were those rumors true? Those ones that you and Cinder actually, like, hooked up or-
Richard: There was an attempt but we realized it wouldn't actually, y'know, work. We're playing oursevles anyway and our character versions have an unhealthy age gap, which is our own age gap.
Pride: Where did that come from, anyway? The two of you- Or should we wait?
Alan: Yeah, we should prob- Probably wait until it gets brought up near the end.
Richard: What about you?
Alan: I loved working with everyone. Like, when we- when we were still working on Part 3, I insisted on getting the RWBY characters to show up again. And we couldn't actually afford to get everyone back again, which is why we only really have like- We only have Team RWBY showing up in the next episode, and Raven for your character short.
Richard: We had to shoot the dream with them, didn't we?
Alan: Well, not for that episode. We only needed to get Neo back for that episode, which we were able to do. We worked up a bit more budget for the nightmare episode. But the dream in Paging Mr. Nomaly is actually a lot of archive footage.
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Richard: Here it is.
Alan: Ah, yeah, the start of Ice Wall.
Pride: Was that an intentional aspect of the crossover?
Alan: Absolutely not. It just kind of happened naturally cause that was just our- It was just our basic like... Our natural interactions with one another.
Richard: Are you two-
Alan: I am... not at liberty to answer that.
Pride: That means yes.
Alan: Shut the fuck up.
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Pride: Now, I didn't really interact with any of the Grimm, as you said I just sent in my recorded lines most of the time, but... Were the Grimm real?
Richard: None of the Grimm are actual Grimm.
Alan: That goes for RWBY, too. There's never any actual Grimm.
RIchard: It's actually just big blobs of styrofoam with the mocap balls on them.
Alan: Hehe. Mocap.
Pride: But the scene was filmed on an actual train.
Alan: It was a fucking trip, man. There were a lot of on-set injuries making this scene and trying to do it right. The tunnel isn't real, though.
Richard: There's not a tunnel there?
Alan: No, we couldn't film that with an actual tunnel because of all the prior injuries. The producers were worried we'd get sued over a major injury or death.
Pride: Wait, but- But Dee falls off the train. He's the one you don't catch.
Alan: Well, we weren't going to actually kill someone by throwing them off the train. It's edited in post, butt he entire mountainside actually has essentially a huge ass Slip-n-Slide and that's what Dee fell on, then he just slid to safety. The fact it snowed actually made it easier, cause it made it slick enough for him to slide down.
Richard: Now, does Qrow actually transform?
Alan: Yes. Hate to break the suspension of disbelief, but Qrow and Raven are the only people that actually transform. The Simplicitrixes are props, and the aliens are all additional actors. That's why we had like no budget after this. We had to pay for all the returning alien actors and pay for the guys who make their debuts.
Richard: That's why we don't do a lot of scenes with the two of us using the same alien. It's just the one actor for each alien, including the Negative variants. They just have makeup on and different outfits depending on who is using them. So then there's the additonal budget of having to combine the scenes when we use the same alien, and they have to act as if the other version is there when it's just no one.
Alan: I think so far it's really just been like... The one scene with both of us as Four Arms in the Alan 10 movie. And that's actually a different Tetramand actor from the one we have now, which is why the design changed. The original one we had was uh... He was the- He was the Four Arms actor from Omniverse. We had some disagreements with him and he left so we got in contact with the actor from Ultimate Alien and got him up in his Heroes United outfit with new tattoos added by makeup.
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Richard: So, this is different from the actual RWBY scene.
Alan: Yeah. The real version separates the characters but our plot was different and we needed everyone to stay in the same place.
Pride: Train wrecks are also expensive to do which is why you just go Golem-Eye here. Hiring the one alien actor was less expensive.
Alan: Speaking of the Golem-Eye scene, there's about ten takes for that moment.
Pride: I'm sorry, what?
Alan: The script described the surprise Grimm attack as being comparable to "unexpected anal sex." So, like, half of the- Half the takes for this scene are where I directed Golem-Eye to do a sexual moan, and the other half is where I directed him to do the poggers face.
Richard: You're the reason this crossover was so damn expensive.
Alan: Sounds about right.
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Alan: I never actually got to um... Never got to go into any of the vaults. How did those work?
Richard: All of the schools in RWBY are actual schools they film those scenes at. Beacon was a different case, the destroyed version of it is a completely different set, of course.
Alan: Yeah.
Richard: The vaults are all actual places beneath the schools but they aren't housing super powerful artifacts made by gods.
Alan: Well, obviously not, Cinder destroyed them.
Pride: Shut your fucking mouth.
Richard: I think the actual purpose is just huge storage facilities. I think I remember they had to haul a huge amount of books and other materials out of there for us to do the scenes in them.
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Pride: Is Neo actually mute?
Richard: That she is.
Alan: The commnuication barrier was a bit difficult, actually. The sign language she does in the next episode is actual sign language since that's how she talks. Or- Or if uh.... if you see her in RWBY Chibi she does it there too. But it's literal sign language, with an actual wooden sign that says what she's saying.
Richard: The communication barrier is hard with the Vulpimancers, too. Darama gets a voice over. Wildmutt's actor does basic mouth movements for the motion capture for Ultimate Wildmutt. That's another thing we should probably talk about.
Alan: Yeah the um... The Ultimate forms aren't uh- They aren't actual transformations. They're all mocapped versions of the base forms. That's actually um... That's- That's part of the reason Humungousaur isn't in the first season. Or even in the first Alan 10 movie.
Pride: What do you mean?
Richard: We had a lot of issues with Humungousaur's actor. Alan's not a fan of him, from an entertainment point of view, so the idea was getting Humungousaur to just be his Ultimate form by default, but Humungousaur's actor was hesitant to spend the entire series in a mocap suit. And by the time we convinced him, we had to be sure he didn't read the entirety of the script of The Annihilators because he wouldn't have liked that Terradino's destroyed in this universe.
Alan: The alien contracts work differently in this series, so we don't have obligations to make the boring strength aliens appear more than anyone else.