Monty Oum
Encyclopedia
Monty Oum is a web-based animator. He is known for his crossover fighting videos and is currently collaborating with Rooster Teeth Productions
on Red vs. Blue
Season 9. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing the hit video Haloid in 2007 on GameTrailers
, which has been called, "the most interesting Halo-related fan movie in existence." The video has received more than 4 million views and is the most watched user-created content on the site. In October of the same year he released the first video in his popular Dead Fantasy
series.
and, utilizing assets from Super Smash Bros. Melee
, created the "ultimate showdown" between Master Chief
and Samus Aran
in Haloid, a portmanteau of their respective franchises. Two months after the premiere of Haloid, he was hired by Midway Games
as a Combat Designer. In 2008 he was hired by Namco Games as a Combat Designer/Animator for Afro Samurai
. In 2009 Oum met Burnie Burns
at a panel during San Diego Comic-Con International and the two discussed possibly teaming up. He was officially announced as working for Rooster Teeth as character animator and choreographer at PAX East 2010.
Rooster Teeth Productions
Rooster Teeth Productions is a production group from Austin, Texas that specializes in the creation of live action shorts, animated peices and machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. The name Rooster Teeth is a euphemism for Cockbite, an...
on Red vs. Blue
Red vs. Blue
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is a set of related comic science fiction video series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through the Internet and on DVD...
Season 9. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing the hit video Haloid in 2007 on GameTrailers
GameTrailers
GameTrailers is a media website that specializes in video game related content. It provides free access to original programming , game trailers and recorded game play. Along with standard definition , many of the video clips are offered in a higher resolution .Users can upload videos, create...
, which has been called, "the most interesting Halo-related fan movie in existence." The video has received more than 4 million views and is the most watched user-created content on the site. In October of the same year he released the first video in his popular Dead Fantasy
Dead Fantasy
Dead Fantasy is a series of fan-made CGI short action movies created by Monty Oum , starring a cast of characters from the Final Fantasy, Dead or Alive, Kingdom Hearts and Ninja Gaiden game franchises, fighting it out against each other battle royale-style in a number of different environments,...
series.
History
Oum dropped out of high school and began putting together fan videos as early as 2002. In January 2007 he discovered some reverse engineering techniques online that allowed him to extract models from Halo 2Halo 2
Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 2001's critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved...
and, utilizing assets from Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBM or simply as Melee, is a crossover fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in . It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Bros., and the predecessor to the Wii game Super Smash...
, created the "ultimate showdown" between Master Chief
Master Chief (Halo)
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is a fictional character and protagonist of the Halo fictional universe, created by Bungie. Master Chief is a player character in the trilogy of science fiction first-person shooter video games Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3 and will appear in the...
and Samus Aran
Samus Aran
is the protagonist of the Metroid video game series. Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus is a female ex-army soldier bounty hunter usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include beams and missiles...
in Haloid, a portmanteau of their respective franchises. Two months after the premiere of Haloid, he was hired by Midway Games
Midway Games
Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
as a Combat Designer. In 2008 he was hired by Namco Games as a Combat Designer/Animator for Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai (video game)
Currently the Metacritic score is 65. GameSpot gave it a 7.0 and IGN gave it a 6.6. Namco Bandai posted on its fiscal year report that the game sold 420,000 copies across all platforms in the US and Europe.-External links:* * at The Internet Movie Database...
. In 2009 Oum met Burnie Burns
Burnie Burns
Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His best known contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the Internet machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch...
at a panel during San Diego Comic-Con International and the two discussed possibly teaming up. He was officially announced as working for Rooster Teeth as character animator and choreographer at PAX East 2010.