About

Monty Oum is a self-taught animator and screenwriter. His crossover fighting videos gained him the attention of several video game and Internet production companies, most notably Rooster Teeth. Along with contributing to Rooster Teeth’s popular machinima series Red vs. Blue, he created the original web animation series RWBY.

Online History

Haloid

Haloid, Monty’s first published work. depicts a Spartan from Halo, Bungie Studio’s FPS video game series, fighting Samus Aran from Metroid, Nintendo’s action-adventure video game series. Using assets from Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Monty shows the two characters pitting their universe’s arsenal of weapons, as well as their own unique abilities and skills, against each other and eventually against the Covenant enemies of the Halo universe. The video’s conclusion also fully reveals the secrets inherent to the two combatants. Haloid would prove to be Rooster Teeth’s introduction to Monty’s work, but their partnership would not be realized until 2010^[1].

Dead Fantasy

Monty would follow up Haloid with one of his most famous series where characters from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series fought characters from Tecmo’s Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series. Although the series appears to have been made purely for fanservice, Dead Fantasy 5 shows glimpses into a sinister plot involving DOATEC, the antagonist of the Dead or Alive series, capturing the Final Fantasy characters for research purposes. Besides the five installments in the series, three more episodes were in development, alongside two released music videos featuring the characters dancing.

Red vs. Blue

For more information, see Red vs. Blue.

RWBY

For more information, see RWBY.

Search Interest

External Links

^[1]Youtube – Monty Oum Interview (PAX East 2010)