Monty Oum

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1981-06-22

Deathday 2015-02-01 (33 years old)

Place of Birth Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Monty Oum

Biography

Monty Oum was the creator and lead animator on the show RWBY. He was born on June 22, 1981. He dropped out of high school around 2002 and started creating fan videos. In 2007, he used model from Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros. Melee to have a Spartan (Halo) and Samus Aran (Metriod) fight in the "ultimate showdown". Afterwards, he worked at Midway Games as a combat designer and then worked at Namco Games as a combat designer and animator for Afro Samurai. In 2009, he met Burnie Burns at a SDCC International panel. A year later at PAX East 2010, he was announced to be working at Rooster Teeth. He started to animate in Season 8 of the show that started Rooster Teeth, Red v Blue. After working hours on end on RvB, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum decided to give him his own project. This project would later be known as RWBY. Monty brought on Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross to write the animated series. RWBY premiered in 2012. On January 22, 2015, Monty was rushed to the hospital due to a severe allergic reaction. The doctors operated on him and Monty fell into a coma for 10 days. He passed away at 4:24 P.M on February 1, 2015.

Known For

Director

2013
RWBY

as Director

2007
Dead Fantasy

as Director

Actor

2014
On the Spot

as Self

2013
RWBY

as Lie Ren (voice)

2011
Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures

as Self (voice) / Gavin Free (voice)

2011
2011
RT Life

as Self

Writer

Visual Effects

2013
RWBY

as Animation

2010

Creator

2016
RWBY Chibi

as Creator

2013
RWBY

as Creator

2007
Dead Fantasy

as Creator

Camera

2011
RT Life

as Camera Operator