Animator Monty Oum, who animated latter seasons of Red vs. Blue and created the anime-esque RWBY as part of Rooster Teeth, passed away on February 1st Rooster Teeth’s Meg Turney announced via The Know that the company would not be posting any videos for today to mourn the loss of Oum.

Oum suffered from an allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure several days ago and went into a coma from which he never recovered. Surrounded by loved ones, from his own family and Rooster Teeth, Oum fought bravely but could not recover.

Oum’s first rise to fame was with the popular crossover animation Haloid before further cementing his talent and creativity with Dead Fantasy. He later joined Rooster Teeth as an animation director, animator and voice actor for its most successful project Red vs. Blue before animating two seasons of RWBY.

You can head here to read more about him as a person and how to donate to his family.

Thank you for your creativity, imagination and incredible work ethic, Monty Oum. We hope Rooster Teeth and the millions of Monty’s supporters and fans worldwide find a way to deal with this tremendous loss.

Machinima is a combination that blends the words “gaming” and “cinema” and is used in short films that are animated and recorded within a video game engine. Machinima in many aspects represents traditional film making.

The engines that are used in some of the names mentioned in the list will be familiar to most of you. Regardless of whether the videos are good or bad, they take a lot of work especially in developing the video and editing and syncing it according to the sounds. So take a peek at some of the Top Machinima videos and be amazed.

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100.Election Coverage Rallying the Voters – Sims 3

The video was created using the Sims 3 engine. The people who made this short but really funny video must have had a blast. The trailer was quite amusing to watch, especially the facial expressions and the whole parody of the election race. The ending was quite priceless as well.