Monty Oum
Director · 1981 – 2015 · Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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 4:24 P.M on February 1, 2015.
Series5
TV7.0AnimationComedyThe animated shenanigans of the Rooster Teeth staff. Audio taken from the Rooster Teeth Podcast.
Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures
2011 · 7 votes
TV7.8AnimationAction & AdventureThe future-fantasy world of Remnant is filled with ravenous monsters, treacherous terrain, and more villains than you can shake a sniper-scythe at. Fortunately, Beacon Academy is training Huntsmen and Huntresses to battle the evils of the world, and Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang are ready for their first day of class.
RWBY
2013 · 218 votes
TV3.0ComedyEverything that goes on behind closed doors at Rooster Teeth Productions.
RT Life
2011 · 3 votes
TV5.7ComedyTalk ShowRooster Teeth Productions' official weekly game show that pits two Rooster Teeth teams against each other and “on the spot” to earn points.
On the Spot
2014 · 6 votes
TV8.8ComedyRealityImmersion is an ongoing American Rooster Teeth Live action production Sci-Fi Comedy TV Web series by Rooster Teeth Productions about how well video gaming material works in real life. During each episode, several Rooster Teeth staff members try to recreate the elements of popular video games to see weather or not and how well the video game material indeed works in real life. Like the show Mythbusters, Rooster Teeth takes all sorts of video game conventions, ideas, abilities and tests them in real life on real people.
Immersion
2010 · 5 votes
Movies1
Movie8.0ComedyRooster Teeth Shorts returns with a vengeance, as well as a magical prototype, an evil button, a mystery box, an inter-dimensional sandwich, and a bunch of ridiculous jokes!
Rooster Teeth Shorts: Volume Two
2010 · 1 votes