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Monty Oum

Monty Oum

Known For Directing
Birthday Jun 22, 1981
Died Feb 01, 2015 (33)
Birthplace Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Feb 12, 2025
Entry Date Feb 13, 2025
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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 "ultima ... te 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.

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Television Credits

RWBY

as Lie Ren (voice)

Episodes: 28

First Aired: Jul 18, 2013

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures

as Pizza God (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 28, 2011

RT Life

as Self

Episodes: 15

First Aired: Sep 23, 2011

Immersion

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Nov 29, 2010

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures

as Self (voice)

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 28, 2011

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures

as Self (voice) / Gavin Free (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 28, 2011

On the Spot

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 07, 2014

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