Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy V

Out of nowhere Monty Oum rushes out part 5 of his CG-animated pet project only a few weeks after part 4 was posted.

In this installment Monty eases off on the action a bit and builds on the narrative started in part 3. The Kasumi clones (taken from DOA2) arc appears to be capped off. And the Tifa's saga continues in Kill Bill fashion. In fact, I jokingly thought to myself, "taking a page out of the Ninja Gaiden 2 gore-fest, are we?" when guess who makes a cameo appearance before the end of the clip
Download it at Gametrailers in HD or of course...

Video Games | Monty Oum | Dead Fantasy V HD

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Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy III and IV

Last year Monty Oum, a maniacal genius of action choreography and animation unleashed Dead Fantasy. It was a bold experiment merging fan-favourite franchises DOA and Final Fantasy in an crazy Matrix-inspired show-down. The first chapter was successfully cut together a dynamic tag-team fight scene while the second took things even further by turning up the difficulty on the action-photography by throwing up to 6 additional characters into the mix for a head-spinning 10 minutes of animation.

Previously it was a bit difficult to tell, but Monty Oum hasn't ripped the character models from source, these are custom. In the third installment the experiment introduces new edit tricks (feels kind of like watching a movie trailer) and more detail on the facial expressions as reducing the number characters helps us get a closer look. Tifa's design looks like a half-way between her Advent Children appearance and her original FFVII face... it's a little unsettling but that's not what we're here for.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dead-fantasy-monty-oum/52613

Video Games | Monty Oum | Dead Fantasy III

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

In the fourth installment (which Monty Oum surprised us with by posting only a few weeks after the 3rd chapter was released), the environment is new and improved. Ocean, grass fields, and lonely desert roads surround our heroes. The wide open spaces also allow for some vast camera swings as Yuna goes back to her classic costume for some Summoner action.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/52837.html

Video Games | Monty Oum | Dead Fantasy IV

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

From what I gather this is all just a pet project for Monty Oum as I hear he's got a pretty sweet industry job since the Dead Fantasy debut. I hope he doesn't drop this project because he's got some serious fans on Gametrailers.com

Dead Fantasy 1 and 2

Everybody remember that viral that went around of the stick figure who fought a never ending battle Matrix-like against another bunch of stick figures? Well, here it is again... this time an ambitious fellow has been posting his work over on Gametrailers.com for us to enjoy. If you happen to be a Final Fantasy and Tecmo fan (particularly DOA), then you get extra value - the characters are all using movements and combat techniques all found in the actual games - super cool stuff.

Just make sure you have about half an hour to spare...

Part One is Here



And Part 2 is here!



I'm also encouraging you guys to check out the actual links to the source because the animator has posted some very lengthy commentary to provide insight into the work!