Monty Oum, animator at Rooster Teeth, has died

For context, he was the creator of the famous machinima Haloid (Halo + Metroid) back in the day: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-mR79GErU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cL-mR79GErU</a><p>I&#x27;ll always remember him for his ridiculous work ethic and amazing combination of art and tech (I believe he created his own animation library for RWBY or something like that to give it it&#x27;s unique cel-shading kind of look)<p>Many people are mourning together on the Rooster Teeth subreddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;roosterteeth</a>

So sad. Such a young guy. And from a selfish point of view, we&#x27;ll never get another Dead Fantasy ( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAsq3HkYbUs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WAsq3HkYbUs</a>). Created some pretty great fan service back in the day.

Does anyone have any info about what kind of allergic reaction could have caused this?<p>I&#x27;m fearful of hospital procedures for reasons like these. How&#x27;d the doctors let it slip by? But it&#x27;s a dumb fear and I&#x27;m trying to break myself of it.

Came to HN to distract myself from this news and here it is. Monty was a great inspiration to me mainly for his relentless work ethic and amazing creations. He is sorely missed in the RT community.<p>33 is too young to die.

&gt;<i>Ten days ago Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma.</i><p>Such a young guy. Remember that you can never be sure how many &quot;tomorrows&quot; you get.

If you are curious, and don&#x27;t happen to follow such things, you can see some work he was involved in, in the form of the RWBY series on Crunchyroll. (I&#x27;m not associated in any way with Crunchyroll.)<p>The combination of Blocks World style AI with Machinima has the potential to change human culture in radical ways. (It already is, IMO.) What would it do to language, if we could just think of a video scene in our heads, and our mobile computer could just synthesize it and show it to others? I suspect the use of &quot;like&quot; is related to the effect video media has already had on language.

In case anyone else is unable to get past the &quot;checking your browser&quot; page (whatever that means...) like me:<p>&gt;Our friend, inspiration and co-worker Monty Oum passed away yesterday afternoon at 4:34 PM surrounded by people who loved him very much. Ten days ago Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma. Although he fought bravely, his body was not able to recover.<p>And wow, I&#x27;d been planning to catch up on RWBY this week. Sad news...

Ugh, this is tragic. Such a talented person gone too soon.<p>Now I don&#x27;t want to say it was life changing for me, but I greatly enjoyed watching his earlier videos (Dead Fantasy series, Haloid).<p>But with RWBY (his most recent work) he spawned a universe out of nothing that is now loved by thousands and thousands of people.<p>True creative talent and dedication at his level is rare, and while we&#x27;ll never get to see more from him, I have no doubt that his work has inspired countless people to create their own universes, and for that we should be happy.

This is terrible, I&#x27;ve been following Monty since before Haloid. I thought it was awesome when he joined roosterteeth to work on RvB.<p>He was incredibly talented young man and certainly died way too early. I hope his family will be able to get through this, it will certainly be very tough to handle this.