Red Vs Blue

"Red vs. Blue" was one of the earliest and most popular machinima series on the web. Using in-game assets from the original "Halo," the series creator, Burnie Burns (who voices Church), Matt Hullum (who plays Sarge), along with a handful of their friends, created a story around a bunch of bumbling soldiers killing time in a box canyon. The rest, as they say, is history.
GameStop has commissioned the crew, known as Rooster Teeth, to create "Halo 3: Odst"-themed episodes featuring the "Red vs. Blue" characters. I spoke to Burns and Hullum about the project, as well as their early roots.
Burns started by talking about the early days of "Red vs. Blue":
"We started the main series in 2003 and they just got really popular and Microsoft gave us a call. Of course when the phone rang and it was Microsoft on the line we thought, "Well, that that was a good run! »
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The contemporary rise of “massive multi-player online role-playing game” (MMORPGs, or MMOs) subculture has birthed a phenomenon of emergent gameplay called machinima. A portmanteau of “machine cinema“, machinima refers to the generation of new video art based on manipulating particular game animations, graphics, and characters in order to craft a story. What started out as straight in-game storytelling with pioneers like The Ill Clan and series like Red Vs. Blue eventually jumped off the computer screen and into the realm of live action. Machinima.com’s hit series Arby ‘n’ the Chief - where action figures from Halo3 argue about the intricacies of playing Halo3 - takes the quip-laden, gamer-culture ethos of its animated predecessors and applies it to the real world. The Purchase Brothers have taken machinima a step further, combining ridiculously realistic in-game sequences with live-action shots that create one helluva good-looking story. David and Ian Purchase’s
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By now you’ve had plenty of time to see “Terminator Salvation” the movie and play “Terminator Salvation” the game. But wait, there’s more! In an unheard-of display of synergy, Warner Bros and franchise owner The Halcyon Company have distinguished themselves by releasing the first officially studio-produced machinima spin-off series for a movie. If you don’t know what machinima is then you clearly haven’t been keeping up with your Red Vs. Blue.
This particular series focuses on Moon Bloodgood’s character, Blair Williams (as in the game, she lends her voice as well). It will run for six episodes — the first was released on May 18 — as Williams tracks a hacker known as “The Ghost.” The series relies entirely on in-game assets, and the production was overseen by “Salvation” director McG. Check out the video below for an inside look.

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