“For fight scenes, I got in and craft very methodically. Very often I’ll have a kick here or a punch there, a block here, and I’ll just put them together. It’s been several years since I’ve done motion capture where I want to mo-cap a fight scene completely new. I’ll go in and do the combos and then…”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Anime, Fight Scenes
“It’s a lifelong dream. Imagine me as a ten-year-old saying I want to make 3D animation and then I’m in a store with my immigrant parents, we grew up in poverty, and I point at this $800 box. How does he even fathom what 3D animation is as it’s a new genre in the 1990s and that I’ll be able to do it…”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Poverty, Dream, 3D, Animation
“RWBY the main character is younger than the rest, because in some ways she is a prodigy and was admitted to the school because she proved herself in combat. She wields a giant…for one of the original pitches of the show I went to our CEO and I went, 'Hey I got an idea for a show: Little Red Riding H…”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Anime, RWBY, Little Red Riding Hood
“In my lifetime of watching anime, I’ve watched plenty of high school anime and it’s just a row of plaid skirts and high school uniforms and stuff. They only change the hairstyles. The scope of anime facial structures are pretty universal, like generic, literally based off that technical limitation.”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Anime
“I have actually tried to cram a human skeleton into our bear and wolf models, because I wanted to be able to motion capture it. But then the hands do weird things where the wolf model has arms twice as long as human arms and they just don’t look good when I go on the ground and do this.”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Animation
“I only started doing it [animation] seriously when I was twenty-two or so, when I realized it was something I could potentially be doing with my life. I kept at it and trying and trying, which led me somewhere.”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Animation, Persistence
“I went to school like any normal kid, until I decided to drop out.”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: School, Dropouts
“I’ve been interested in animation as far back as I remember. I used to draw little flip books as far back as age seven, maybe five. I was supposed to be reading books, but instead I was drawing in books and making little fight sequences in them.”— Monty Oum, fanboynation.comTagged: Animation, Flip Books