Rooster Teeth describes the anime in Crunchyroll's removed article:
RWBY: Ice Queendom' presents RWBY in beautiful 2D anime visuals. RWBY imagines a world filled with horrific monsters bent on death and destruction, and humanity's only hope is dependent upon powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training whose journeys will take them far past the grounds of their school, Beacon Academy. Though each may be powerful on their own, these four girls must overcome dark forces and work as a team if they truly hope to become the next generation of Remnant's protectors.
Toshimasa Suzuki is directing the anime at Shaft. Kenjirō Okada is credited as chief director. Gen Urobuchi is credited for conceptualizing the anime, with Tow Ubukata writing and supervising the scripts. huke conceptualized the character designs for the anime, while Nobuhiro Sugiyama is designing those characters for animation, while also serving as chief animation director alongside Yoshiaki Ito and Hiroki Yamamura. Nobuyuki Takeuchi is credited for visual direction. Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi are composing the music.
The original RWBY web animated series by the late creator Monty Oum follows four girls with unique weapons and powers who are training to hunt supernatural "Creatures of Grimm."
