Early Omegamon Designs Shown on Volcano Channel

December 2nd, 2015. Former Digimon series project director Ota "Volcano" Kensuke updated his YouTube channel today with a new episode focusing on the first Digimon Adventure tri. film, Reunion. Ota discusses his involvement with Omegamon, featured prominently in tri., and how he and artist Watanabe Kenji first drafted the Omegamon design for the 2000 film Our War Game. The creation process involved WiZ's Kitagawa, illustrator Watanabe Kenji, and Bandai's Volcano Ota. Ota also briefly unveiled several personally-treasured illustrations featuring early versions of Omegamon, prior to the final design.

The sketches show a centaur-like form for Omegamon, with War Greymon fused over Metal Garurumon's body, and a winged version of Omegamon that wore War Greymon's Brave Shield as a pauldron. In the final design, the team responsible for Omegamon searched for a balance between the component Digimon. Attaching War Greymon and Metal Garurumon's faces to Omegamon's hands was done to help achieve that balance.

Ota Kensuke is the original project director for the 1997 Digimon virtual pets, who has continued to work with Digimon to the present day. Serving as a lead developer for all Digimon toys up to 2007, Ota came back to prominence in 2014 due to his involvement in the development and release of the Digivice Ver. 15th.

His personality "Volcano Ota" was originally created to promote the D-1 Grand Prix tournaments, and has remained a memorable component of his public persona for almost twenty years. In 2000 his character was made into an official Digimon, Volcamon, and in 2002 given the Ultimate form Pile Volcamon, corresponding to his "Pile Volcano Ota" upgrade. In 2015 Ota launched Volcano Channel, his YouTube channel where he discusses the development and history of the Digimon franchise. His previous video focused on the Digital Monster series of virtual pets, and their design process.