User blog comment:Ltmaroon57/Speculations For season 13/@comment-2135507-20141001151128

For everyone talking about how bad Malcom's face look, Cesar (A contracted animator for Roosterteeth that mostly works on RWBY backgrounds) had to do a rush job with his face. Basically they decided last minute that they were actually going to show his face and Cesar didn't have a lot of time to do it. He said on his twitter he'll probably update the model with a much better one next season