Monty Oum

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 424 PM on February 1 2015