[In Tribute] BURNIE: Hello, Mr. Monty Oum.
MONTY: Hello Burnie.
I was very excited about the moment my first scene showed up at a convention.
No one had any idea what to expect.
Got a full house for the RWBY panel; RTX 2014.
With Red vs. Blue and Rooster Teeth as a company there's a lot of things we hope to create
to make people happy in ways they couldn't/wouldn't expect.
Red,
white,
black,
and yellow 'cause I'm Asian. (laughing)
It's-it's easy to forget to sleep when you're working on something cool
so you just work as hard as you can and still, it's-there's never enough time so,
the thing you gotta learn to is essentially let go.
What we end up making is always larger than what we think it'll be.
I do believe thoroughly in giving everything you got towards whatever you're doing at the time.
My favourite thing this time around was sharing it with everyone else;
my colleagues, my friends who all worked on this project.
For the longest time it was just assumed we ended up here for some reasons that we don't need to think about.
"No." (laughing and cheering)
But we tend to be masters of our own fate.
The only thing that stops us from doing the really cool things is... time.
We're in a huge fan culture at the moment where everything has spawned off of something.
If you look at something and you intend to use it
you have to emulate it which means you have to understand it.
I've landed in a very unique place where
if I wanna make a costume of something, I can also make the character that it's derived from.
GAVIN: Monty is my favourite person. BURNIE: He's amazing.
MONTY: At the end of the day we're still looking at people and they need to behave like people.
As an animator there are things you need to notice that most people wouldn't be seeing.
The most important thing -- do this as often as you can -- 'watch' movies, or watch shows, or watch things!
Just keep your eyes open.
It's a lot of destiny really.
I mean, very few people have the luxury of doing exactly what they wanna do as their job.
There's never a day where I forget that.
Moving forward is-- I always think about what's next, so like--
I'm-I'm super excited to finish what we have so that I can just start working on something else.
[We love you, Monty.]