History Creator / Montyoum

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Freddie Wong of Creator/RocketJump had spoken to Oum beforehand about maybe collaborating on some projects, which they'd supposedly gotten far on. Because of Oum's sudden death, these plans were nixed.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Oum used to be very active in Facebook, often chatting with and exchanging ideas with fans. This changed when he started getting bombarded with comments and messages demanding he finish ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy''. A photo of him and his family at his mother's wake getting these comments was the last straw, so he turned his Facebook page into a like page and rarely visited it anymore. Twitter was the only social media outlet that he updated regularly until his death.

He also worked briefly as a combat designer for Creator/MidwayGames and Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment (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 on ''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.

%% * 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''.

%% * PromotedFanboy:
%%** Oum 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.
%%** Oum was a big fan of ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. Three years after his death, ''RWBY'' got to [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle cross over]] with said franchise.

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 animator of ''RWBY'', he took employees and 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/BandaiNamcoEntertainment (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.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Creator/GavinFree once drunkenly flirted with him, claiming that he wasn't attracted to dudes, but "if I had a boner for you, it's really trying now".

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He was nearly this at Michael and Lindsay Jones' wedding, where Burnie nearly tricked him into having a piece of the wedding cake before the bride and groom could cut it. Fortunately Sheena stopped him.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: A shocking and tragic example. He was entirely fine and healthy until mid-January 2015; ''two weeks'' later, he died from a severe allergic reaction. At the age of 33, he should have had ''decades'' more work in him. As a result, ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' wasn't completed, and while ''RWBY'' continued, it always had a ''heavy'' cloud of WhatCouldHaveBeen hanging over it.

* OutlivedItsCreator

%% * ActionGirl: When it came to creating his own works, he became renowned for including prominent female fighters.
* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Played for laughs when he appeared as a guest "martial arts instructor" in an episode of ''Immersion''.

* AscendedFanboy: Oum was a big fan of ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. Three years after his death, ''RWBY'' got to [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle cross over]] with said franchise.

%% * PromotedFanboy: Oum 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.

%% Remember, creators don't get trivia pages. Trivia items on this page should stay here.

-> ''"Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible."''

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Our used to be very active in Facebook, often chatting with and exchanging ideas with fans. This changed when he started getting bombarded with comments and messages demanding he finish ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy''. A photo of him and his family at his mother's wake getting these comments was the last straw, so he turned his Facebook page into a like page and rarely visited it anymore. Twitter was the only social media outlet that he updated regularly until his death.

His older brother, Neath Oum, is a voice actor.

%% * DoingItForTheArt: Why Oum worked for hours and hours longer than considered healthy every day; he was just that dedicated to seeing his vision come to fruition.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Freddie Wong of Creator/RocketJump had spoken to Oum beforehand about maybe collaborating on some projects, which they'd supposedly gotten far on. Because of Oum's sudden death, these plans were nixed.
** Monty was Creator/TeamFourStar's first choice to play [[FutureBadass Future Gohan]] in the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of ''The History of Trunks'', but he passed away before it could happen. The special was dedicated to his memory.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Between ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' was hit hard by ScheduleSlip. Unfortunately, due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure Oum's death in 2015]] it will never be updated.
* 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 was a woman all along]].

%% * ActionGirl: All of his works heavily features female fighters front-and-center.
* AscendedFanboy: Was noted to be a big fan of ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. Three years after his death, ''RWBY'' got to [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle cross over]] with said franchise.

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

* AuthorExistenceFailure: A shocking and tragic example. He was entirely fine and healthy until mid-January 2015; ''two weeks'' later, he was dead from a severe allergic reaction. At the age of 33, he should have had ''decades'' more work in him. As a result, ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' will never be completed, and while ''RWBY'' will continue, it will always have a ''heavy'' cloud of WhatCouldHaveBeen hanging over it.

** Freddie Wong of Creator/RocketJump had spoken to Oum beforehand about maybe collaborating on some projects, which they'd supposedly gotten far on. Due to Oum's sudden death, this is sadly not going to happen.

Monyreak "Monty" Oum (June 22, 1981 - February 1, 2015), was an American animator[[labelnote:*]]and, though he preferred the term "film maker", "one-man production crew" would be more appropriate[[/labelnote]] and writer, whose education was entirely observational. He was responsible for some of the most awesome WebAnimation around, most of which relied on RuleOfCool.

Monyreak "Monty" Oum (June 22, 1981 - February 1, 2015), was, among other things, an American self-taught 3D animator,[[labelnote:*]]and, though he preferred 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.

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.

!!Monty Oum's works provide examples of:

* 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''.
* DoingItForTheArt: Why Oum worked for hours and hours longer than considered healthy every day; he was just that dedicated to seeing his vision come to fruition.
* PromotedFanboy: Oum 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.

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

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

!!Monty Oum and his works provide examples of:

* ShipperOnDeck: He was the one who encouraged Creator/GavinFree and Meg Turney to go out with each other.

*** Then they put it in ''RWBY'' too.
** The {{mooks}} in the beginning of ''RWBY'' are modeled after the Axe Gang from ''Film/KungFuHustle''.
* TrollingCreator: Any time browsing his Facebook or Twitter feeds would reveal many teases and hints, sometimes to an almost taunting level.

** When ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}'' hit the scene, the people at Creator/RoosterTeeth took notice and contacted Oum, 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 Oum 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 Oum 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: Oum and Burnie were both mutual fans of each other's work, and Burnie called him up. However, it fell through because Oum literally ''didn't understand'' he was being offered a job, and he said that if he had known, he would have taken it immediately.

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]].

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 Oum and his works to use their creativity to make the world a better place.