History Creator / Montyoum

He died on February 1, 2015, at the age of 33 after [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 suffering an allergic reaction that left him comatose two days earlier]], even though [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

!!Tropes associated with Monty:

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Between ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' was hit hard by ScheduleSlip. Unfortunately, due to Monty's passing away in 2015 it will never be updated.

** Most characters in ''RWBY'' drink coffee like it's going out of style. Coffee is something Monty the infamous workaholic was all too familiar with.

* DoingItForTheArt: Why Monty worked for hours and hours longer than considered healthy every day; he was just that dedicated to seeing his vision come to fruition.
* PromotedFanboy: Monty got inspired to pursue animation because he wanted to do cool things like what he saw on the internet. Then he became an animation director over at Creator/RoosterTeeth.
* RecoilBoost: His animations often have characters use the recoil from their guns to propel themselves at high speeds. Monty said that his goal was to make fights fluid by conserving motion, which means integrating the recoil from firearms into combat maneuvers.

** Freddie Wong of Creator/RocketJump had spoken to Monty beforehand about maybe collaborating on some projects, which they'd supposedly gotten far on. Due to Monty's sudden death, this is sadly not going to happen.
** When ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}'' hit the scene, the people at Creator/RoosterTeeth took notice and contacted Monty, managed to meet with him at a con the very next week, but ultimately failed to recruit him when he took a job with the gaming company. It was only when Monty joined Rooster Teeth years later that they discovered he had only taken the other job because he had believed the recruitment offer was a joke rather than genuine. Now imagine if Rooster Teeth had told Monty that much earlier.[[note]]As told in the RT Podcast #309 after his death.[[/note]]
*** He also talked about it with Burnie in a Let's Play that was released several months before his death, which paints the situation on a much more humorous light: Monty and Burnie were both mutual fans of each other's work, and Burnie called him up. However, it fell through because Monty literally ''didn't understand'' he was being offered a job, and he said that if he had known, he would have taken it immediately.

He died on February 1, 2015, at the age of 33 [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 after suffering an allergic reaction that left him comatose]] two days earlier, even though a [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

On January 30, 2015, it was announced that Monty was stricken with an unknown medical emergency and [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. On February 2, it was revealed that [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 he died due to a severe allergic reaction that left him comatose]]. He was 33 years old. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

On January 30, 2015, it was announced that Monty was stricken with an unknown medical emergency and [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. On February 2, it was revealed that [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 he had passed away]], due to a severe allergic reaction that left him comatose. He was 33 years old. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

He also worked briefly as a combat designer for Creator/MidwayGames and Creator/NamcoBandai (as a combat designer for the former and combat designer/animator for the latter's ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' game). His long-term goal, aside from making movies for his fans, was to make the most awesome fighting game ever. Some fans have begged for him to make a game based off ''RWBY'', something he somewhat [[http://38.media.tumblr.com/b2bfc4fdb85def81a3dfc580f0638a8e/tumblr_n7ly33i5fw1sk8tsio1_1280.jpg hinted at]] before a ''RWBY'' game was confirmed at RTX 2014.

'''Monyreak "Monty" Oum''' (June 22, 1981 - February 1, 2015), was, among other things, a self-taught 3D animator,[[labelnote:*]]and, though he prefered the term "film maker", "one-man production crew" would be more appropriate[[/labelnote]] whose education was entirely observational. He was responsible for some of the most awesome WebAnimation around, most of which relied on RuleOfCool.

On January 30, 2015, Monty was stricken with an unknown medical emergency and [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. On February 2, it was revealed that [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 he had passed away]], due to a severe allergic reaction that left him comatose. He was 33 years old. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

-->'''Monty''': "As the Rooster Teeth [[TokenMinority resident Asian]], I am fully qualified to teach you in the [[BlackBeltInOrigami art of]] [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus fruit self-defense]]."

On January 30, 2015, Monty was stricken with an unknown medical emergency and [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. On February 2, it was revealed that [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 he had passed away]], due to a severe allergic reaction that left him comatose. He was 33 years old. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

%% * ActionGirl: All of his works heavily features female fighters front-and-center.

%% * BadassArmfold: As per his profile picture, it seemed to be his trademark pose, as shown in ''The Gauntlet'' and other appearances.
%% * CoolVersusAwesome: The two works that brought him to fame were ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' vs. ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' and ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' vs. ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.

-->--'''Monty Oum''', [[http://montyoum.deviantart.com/journal/30596675/ Words to live by]]

'''Monyreak "Monty" Oum''' (June 22, 1981 - February 1, 2015), was, among other things, a self-taught 3D animator,[[labelnote:*]]though he prefered the term "film maker" and "one-man production crew" would be even more appropriate[[/labelnote]] whose education was entirely observational. He was responsible for some of the most [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt awesome]] WebAnimation around, most of which relied on RuleOfCool.

He gained early fame for ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}'' and ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'', two of his most famous works and the two that really put him on the map. He was hired by Creator/RoosterTeeth to work on never-before-done (at the time) animation for ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', for which he worked tirelessly to make Tex even more awesome than previously thought possible. After finishing up season 10 of ''[=RvB=]'', he launched a new web series under the name of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', something he said he's always been wanting to do since he got into animation. As the director and lead writer of ''RWBY'', he took employees and other writers from all sections of Rooster Teeth, including fan favorites from Creator/AchievementHunter, to produce the series. In between his movies, he was working on an adaptation of [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] for VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}.

He also worked briefly as a combat designer for Creator/MidwayGames and Creator/NamcoBandai (as a combat designer for the former and combat designer/animator for the latter's ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' game). His long-term goal, aside from making movies for his fans, was to make the most awesome fighting game ever. Some fans have begged for him to make a game based off ''RWBY'', [[TrollingCreator something he somewhat]] [[http://38.media.tumblr.com/b2bfc4fdb85def81a3dfc580f0638a8e/tumblr_n7ly33i5fw1sk8tsio1_1280.jpg hinted at]] before a ''RWBY'' game was confirmed at RTX 2014.

His online presence lives on through [[http://www.gametrailers.com/game/monty-oum/4712 a video list of his work]] over at [=GameTrailers=], his Website/DeviantArt [[http://montyoum.deviantart.com gallery,]] his original Website/YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/user/montyoum channel,]] his former Website/{{Twitter}} [[http://twitter.com/montyoum account]], and his former Website/{{Tumblr}} [[http://montyoum.tumblr.com/ account.]]

On January 30, 2015, Monty was stricken with an unknown medical emergency and [[http://www.gofundme.com/MontyandSheena a fundraiser]] was set up to help with paying for the expenses. On February 2, it was revealed that [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 he had passed away]], due to a severe allergic reaction that left him comatose. He was 33 years old. He will be missed dearly. In his memory, Rooster Teeth has [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319 challenged]] everyone whose lives were touched by Monty and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.

* ActionGirl: All of his works heavily features female fighters front-and-center.

-->'''Monty''': "As the Rooster Teeth [[TokenMinority resident Asian]], I am fully qualified to teach you in the [[BlackBeltInOrigami art of]] [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus fruit self-defense]]."
* AuthorAppeal: Action Girls and fluid fight scenes permeate his works. Even ''Haloid'' had Samus fight out of her armor, and [[spoiler: it turns out the SPARTAN in the video [[SamusIsAGirl was a woman all along]]]].
* {{Badass}}: Most characters he animated, either original or borrowed, had to be in order to live up to the stunts he had them pull.
* BadassArmfold: As per his profile picture, it seemed to be his trademark pose, as shown in ''The Gauntlet'' and other appearances.
* CoolVersusAwesome: The two works that brought him to fame were ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' vs. ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' and ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' vs. ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.

* RuleOfCool: The only rule he lived by. Oum's fight scenes are powered by "what would be awesome here."

* TheSouthpaw: His characters Ruby and Weiss are left-handed because he himself was left-handed.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He was too cool for this often-sucky world.

* FirstNameBasis: No one, not his fans, not his co-workers called him anything but "Monty".

* TheSouthpaw: His characters Ruby and Weiss are left-handed because he himself is left-handed.

* TheSouthpaw: His characters Rubu and Weiss are left-handed because he himself is left-handed.

* TheSouthpaw: His characters RWBY and Weiss are left-handed because he himself is left-handed.

-> ''"I mean who doesn't like being told they're awesome?"''
-->--'''Monty Oum''' on the only proper reaction to his work.

* {{Badass}}: Most characters he animated, either original or borrowed, had to be in order to live up to the stunts he had them pull. He himself was also a pretty cool guy.

* HumbleHero: Despite being flashy in virtually every aspect (including his movies and even the way he dressed), he was described by people who knew him as humble. His tweets about how he values humility support this.
* RecoilBoost: A common component in his GunFu animations. He said that his goal was to make fights fluid by conserving motion, which means integrating the recoil from firearms into combat maneuvers.

* ShipperOnDeck: Monty actually served as matchmaker, to Creator/GavinFree and Meg Turney, as [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302859 they both]] [[http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302551 wrote]].
* ShoutOut: Several of his fight scenes contain shout outs to various {{Martial Arts Movie}}s, including:

-->'''Monty''': "As the Rooster Teeth [[TokenMinority resident Asian]], I am fully qualified to teach you in the [[BlackBeltInOrigami art of fruit self-defense]]."

* {{Badass}}: Most characters he animated, either original or borrowed, had to be in order to live up to the stunts he had them pull.