![]() MO: I’ve been interested in animation as far back as I remember. Would you mind giving me a few details about that? WG: I like asking my guests to explain more about their background, education, and interest in animation. Monty Oum (MO): My name is Monty Oum and I’m an animator for Rooster Teeth. Whitney Toon-In Talk Rooster Teeth Grace (WG): Please introduce yourself and explain why you’re a perfect guest to appear on Animation Interviews.Rooster Teeth has many other new projects in mind and they’re dedicated to making great cartoons.Contrary to popular belief, Monty never watched Dragon Ball Z, but he was still a large fan of tournament arcs in anime.In season three of RWBY, expect the characters to grow physically and mentally.He also points out that having actually items to hold when you’re in a motion capture suit makes it a whole lot easier to animate later.Monty equated fashion and high heels with powers.Most of RWBY’s characters are female, in order to animate their feminine qualities they sometimes have women put on the motion capture suit or they male animators have been known to wear heels.Whitney gushes over RWBY’s fighting scenes, which was Monty’s main speciality.Whitney confuses stop motion for motion capture, but she’s still impressed that Rooster Teeth is using it.They discuss more about the world of RWBY. RWBY is about a group of four girls who are fighters and how they attend a school to become stronger warriors.They both geeked out over Pixar’s The Incredibles and discuss Universal Man.Whitney is curious about the Rooster Teeth animation process and Monty explains how coding is involved, how they use skeletons, and how there’s a lot of copying involved.The creator takes the inspiration and makes something new. There are originally ideas, but they are usually inspired by something else. Ironically, Monty’s career more or less started when he made fan videos based off Final Fantasy and Dead or Alive. It emulates anime and anime emulates early Disney cartoons. He describes RWBY as an emulation of an emulation.When he was a kid, he used to watch cartoons, mostly anime, and he loved to count frames and learn animation tricks.Monty is a self-taught animator and never formerly attended a school. ![]() Please join Whitney as she honors Monty’s memory. In January 2015, Monty Oum had a severe allergic reaction to a medical procedure and he passed away in February. This interview was originally meant to air in the same month, but the sound quality was very poor. He was an entirely self-taught animator, specializing in online cartoons and videogames. Monty Oum was one of the creative leads for the American anime RWBY. In December 2014, I had the honor of interviewing the animator Monty Oum of Rooster Teeth. 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.Hello and welcome to fifth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. 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.” ![]() 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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