I remember thinking, “Wow, here’s a thing where I don’t have to constantly waste paper or pencils and I can constantly reiterate.” I mean I’ve been doing flip books for as long as I can remember, and then that transitioned into the day I got computers. I’ve always had an interest in how still images become moving images. Monty Oum: Well, I guess animation is the thing that I’ve always wanted to do. John: Doing good, doing good! Yeah, I’ve been checking out the trailers recently for RWBY and it’s looking pretty sweet! John “Spartan” Nguyen: Hello Monty, how’s it going? We got the chance to chat with the animator as he talks about his animation career and his collaboration with Rooster Teeth for his upcoming project, RWBY. He’s currently working with Rooster Teeth on Red vs. Oum once wrote in a Facebook post, “Fun fact: I try to make sure all my characters are designed with pockets/pouches so cosplayers will have places to put their phones/wallets.Monty Oum has created some epic animated fight videos involving popular video game characters like Haloid and Dead Fantasy. Last year, the show won Streamy and International Academy of Web Television awards for best animated series. In 2012, he created, directed and was lead animator for RWBY. After a stint at Namco Bandai Games, where he worked on the vidgame Afro Samurai, Oum joined Internet production house Rooster Teeth as character animator and choreographer. That led to a job as a combat designer at Midway Games. Oum began his animation career by creating Haloid, a showdown between characters from the video games franchises Halo and Metroid. On, where Oum had been been a member for 11 years, sharing his art concepts for characters such as the recent post he left here, dozens of people left RIP comments in his memory, mentioning how much his work had affected them. And I’ll keep going too.” and the painfully prescient “RT montyoum: Reminder that we should cherish those close to us and not wait til they’re gone to appreciate them.”
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News of his death spread quickly across the online-video world and social media, spawning a series of tributes and memorials on YouTube and elsewhere. On Twitter, many reposted some of his previous posts, including: “RT montyoum: Guys… Life… it’s pretty awesome. He also was a big presence on social media, with 146,000 followers on Twitter, 12,000 on Vine and 117,000 on Facebook. Oum created and directed the award-winning web series RWBY and was lead animator in Seasons 8 through 10 of Rooster Teeth’s durable online-video series Red Vs. Related Fullscreen Buys Online Video Pioneer Rooster Teeth Austin-based Rooster Teeth said in a blog post that Oum had suffered a severe allergic reaction during a routine medical procedure last month that left him in a coma.
Monty Oum, director of animation for online-video pioneer Rooster Teeth and creator of the hit online series RWBY, died Sunday.
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