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>He was a rather gifted action director
Sure, if you count directly ripping animations from scenes in the Matrix and Devil May Cry series as gifted or having goofy shit on par with Indian cinema. All of his works are just taking things from other properties, Haloid, Dead Fantasy and RWBY are all built on other shit and name them directly, at a certain point you just have to sit back and realise that you're watching a man playing with action figures, crashing them together over and over again, with all the grace and aplomb of an eight year old. The only difference is that people saw things they recognised and so they clapped. Is he a talented animator? Yeah, sure. Is he a good director? Fuck no, all Monty and Kerry did was talk about Monty would give conflicting and haphazard directions for the shows future and all he wanted to do was crash his toys together.
For the time and place, the stuff he was doing was pretty amazing. around that 2010 era it was cool to see a small studio like RT doing this wacky and wild fighting as well as a machinema moving into having actual animated scenes. It was cool for what it was and a real step up from the previous seasons of headbobbing to add that extra 'wow' factor.
However, by the time it got to RWBY you soon learned that once you've seen one Monty fightscene then you've seen them all. Characters with little weight hitting like bullets, tracking shots of characters flying through the air, the kurosawa 'cut the enemy then wait five seconds before bloodspray', repeat ad nauseum. He also refused to grow, doing things his own way as if he were a creative genius rather than keeping his animation stunted by his own 'it works for me so why change it' attitude which is why the quality of animation from S1-3 is even more dogshit than the rest. Not that anything else improved by with Miles and Kerry taking control it's not like there was much hope.
tl;dr for an indie animator he was pretty okay but for someone running a department / making their own series he was less than competant.
Aight back onto Funhaus now.
Any chances that the old crew will reassemble onto other platforms?
Brue and Laurence resurrected Inside Gaming news but without Adam and James it's not the same, plus Laurence is such a contrarian dickhead he couldn't pay me to listen to his half-baked opinions.
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