Rooster Teeth started its popular Halo-based machinima comedy series Red vs Blue all the way back in 2003. What was actor Elijah Wood up to in 2003? Oh, just carrying the lead role in a little old top-grossing fantasy movie that won 11 Oscars.
This is getting all a bit meta. A machinima vid that is actually a real life attempt to recreate a video game, inspired by machinima. Wow. Circular. Still, all you really need to know is that this vid is a pretty accurate real life representation of a Halo match, minus the spawn traps. And it’s pretty cool.
The Transportation Security Administration isn’t making too many friends in American airports at the moment. It’ll make less friends if it starts holding up video games the way it holds up a departures line.
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It’s Bungie Day, and the developer celebrates with a new video featuring Rooster Teeth’s Red Vs Blue crew coming home to a new and improved Halo: Reach version of the Blood Gulch map.
The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth’s machinima series take a look at the “normal soldiers” of Halo 3: ODST.
Today kicks off Stanford University’s Play Machinima Law Conference with panels of machinima artists, copyright lawyers and legal representatives from Blizzard, EA and Microsoft.
The creators of the Red vs. Blue series take on City of Heroes, in a series of live-action shorts featuring the greatest superhero of all time, Captain Dynamic.
Burnie Burns, one of the lead people behind the Halo machinima Red vs Blue, and co-founder of Rooster Teeth Productions, will be coming out next month for this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
If you’d like to talk to Burns about his work, or machinima in general, he’s scheduled to host a Q&A session on June 18 at 7:30PM at the Telstra Experience Lab. The lab can be found at Level 2, 400 George St, Sydney.
The SFF 2008 is host to two other machinima-related talks – one on June 18 at 5:30PM with Frank Dellario (Electric Sheep) and another on June 19 at 5:30PM with Chris Burke (This Spartan Life). These sessions will also take place at the Telstra Experience Lab, and all three are free of charge.
Be sure to hit up the SFF website for more info.
Digital Innovators [Sydney Film Festival]
Now, clearly, these are production values in the upper 1 percentile, and we’d expect no less of Rooster Teeth, and I’m not gonna hate on it. But can I ask a question? How come any elected-office character in a military-genre movie has to have a condescending Southern accent?
It’s like a British friend of mine once said about the stereotype of his accent: “If I am in a Star Wars movie, then I command the Death Star.”
That said, I can’t wait to see (and hear) where this is headed.
RVB: Reconstruction [Rooster Teeth, embedded video courtesy of Slackerchan at Gametrailers]
The Red Versus Blue guys bring their cheeky, dare I saw whimsical, sense of humour to this preview of the upcoming Halo 3 map pack. On second thought, strike the whimsical, anything that involves shooting a huge set of balls at someone’s face could probably use a better adjective.
