Monyreak "Monty" Oum (/oÊŠm/ OHM; June 22, 1981 â€" February 1, 2015)
was an American web-based animator and writer. A self-taught animator,
he scripted and produced several crossover fighting video series,
drawing the attention of internet production company Rooster Teeth,
who hired him. There, he provided custom animations for Red vs. Blue,
and created the original animated series RWBY. Oum married Sheena
Duquette on May 10, 2014.Oum attracted attention within the gaming
community after releasing the hit video Haloid in 2007 on
GameTrailers, which a Destructoid article 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
GameTrailers. In October of the same year, he released the first video
in his Dead Fantasy fan series which, like Haloid, featured
fantastical combat sequences between characters from two different
established games series (this time Tecmo's Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden
vs. Square Enix's Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts). He released five
episodes of Dead Fantasy, a preview of an additional episode and two
music videos featuring the heroines of the series. After Oum announced
that he had started working for Rooster Teeth, the series was put on
hold.Oum suffered from a severe allergic reaction during a medical
procedure and fell into a coma on January 22, 2015. He died on
February 1, 2015.Oum was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1981. He
described himself as "Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese".
He had four older brothers and two older sisters. As a teenager, he
was a student at New Urban Arts, a community art studio for high
school students in Providence.
was an American web-based animator and writer. A self-taught animator,
he scripted and produced several crossover fighting video series,
drawing the attention of internet production company Rooster Teeth,
who hired him. There, he provided custom animations for Red vs. Blue,
and created the original animated series RWBY. Oum married Sheena
Duquette on May 10, 2014.Oum attracted attention within the gaming
community after releasing the hit video Haloid in 2007 on
GameTrailers, which a Destructoid article 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
GameTrailers. In October of the same year, he released the first video
in his Dead Fantasy fan series which, like Haloid, featured
fantastical combat sequences between characters from two different
established games series (this time Tecmo's Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden
vs. Square Enix's Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts). He released five
episodes of Dead Fantasy, a preview of an additional episode and two
music videos featuring the heroines of the series. After Oum announced
that he had started working for Rooster Teeth, the series was put on
hold.Oum suffered from a severe allergic reaction during a medical
procedure and fell into a coma on January 22, 2015. He died on
February 1, 2015.Oum was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1981. He
described himself as "Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese".
He had four older brothers and two older sisters. As a teenager, he
was a student at New Urban Arts, a community art studio for high
school students in Providence.
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