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Rooster Teeth Productions is an award-winning production group from Buda, Texas that specializes in the creation of machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. The name Rooster Teeth is a euphemism for cockbite, an insult used in one of the group's trailers.Oliver. Originally, the group ran an unsuccessful website called drunkgamers.com, for which Burnie Burns created voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' popular first-person shooter video game Combat Evolved. Eventually, these videos led to the creation of Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, an award-winning comic science fiction series that premiered on April 1, 2003 and whose fourth season ended on April 1, 2006.
In 2004, Electronic Arts commissioned Rooster Teeth to promote its life simulation game The Sims 2 through The Strangerhood, a series that parodies popular culture. In 2005, Monolith Productions commissioned the group to create the mini-series PANICS to promote the computer game F.E.A.R.
Early history
While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum collaborated with actor Joel Heyman on a 1997 independent film called The Schedule.Moltenbrey, Gross. The film helped Hullum and Heyman to find work in Los Angeles, California, but otherwise had limited success.Moltenbrey Working for a local company named Telenetwork, Burns later met Geoff Ramsey and Gustavo Sorola, and the three formed drunkgamers, a website where video games were reviewed while drunk.Gross; Konow, 1. According to Ramsey, the group tried to receive free games to review, but "incurred the wrath" of several game developers in doing so.Konow, 1.
One of the non-gameplay videos that the drunkgamers crew created during this time was a live-action parody of the Apple Switch ad campaign. This video featured Sorola as the main actor, used Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" as background music, and focused on a perceived lack of games available for the Apple Macintosh computer.Mac Gamer Switch Parody.
Red vs Blue
Responsible for covering the Microsoft Xbox, Burns regularly posted gameplay videos of Halo: Combat Evolved and eventually began to add humor to them with voice-overs. The idea for a serial came next, and a for Red vs Blue was posted in 2002.Konow, 2. Six months later, the drunkgamers website closed. However, the following week, the magazine Computer Gaming World asked permission to include the Switch parody in a CD to be included with an issue. To take advantage of the resultant publicity, Rooster Teeth re-encoded the video to point to redvsblue.com, and revived the Red vs Blue project. Burns also contacted Hullum and Heyman to work on the series.The History of Red Vs Blue.
In a parody of science fiction films and gamesLeggat and of military life,Burns, et al., 2003, Audio Commentary, episode 2. Red vs Blue tells the story of two groups of soldiers fighting a civil war in a desolate box canyon. Initially, Rooster Teeth expected the series to consist of only six to eight episodes.Burns, et al., 2003, Audio Commentary, episode 4. However, the series became popular quickly, receiving 20,000 downloads in a single day.Thompson, 1. Accordingly, Burns conceived an extension of the plot.Waters. Red vs Blue has won several awards, including four from the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences,Machinima Awards 2003 Results; Mackie Winners Announced!. and completed its fourth season on April 1, 2006.Burns, 2006.
Other machinima series
In May 2004, at the E3 gaming convention, Rooster Teeth was introduced to The Sims 2 and realized that the game would be suitable for a series that parodied reality television; Electronic Arts agreed.Kosak, 1–2; Thompson, 5. The series follows the story of eight strangers who awake one day unaware of where they are or how they arrived there.Williams. Its first season of 17 episodes completed on April 27, 2006.Saldaña. In 2005, the group collaborated with Paul MarinoBurns, et al., 2006, Audio Commentary, Strangerhood Studios episode 6. on Strangerhood Studios, a spin-off commissioned by the Independent Film Channel,Machinima Theater. This spin-off was the first machinima series to be commissioned for broadcast and won an award for Best Editing at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival.Mackie Winners Announced!.
Also in 2005, Rooster Teeth partnered with Monolith Productions to create PANICS, a short series that chronicles the adventures of Bravo Team. The four publicly released episodes were released between September 27, 2005 and October 18, 2005.FearFans.com. A prequel was released with F.E.A.R. - Director's Edition.Gersh. The mini-series won an award for Best Writing at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival.
Filmography
- Red vs Blue Season One (2003)
- Red vs Blue Season Two (2004)
- Red vs Blue Season Three (2005)
- Strangerhood Studios (2005)
- PANICS (2005)
- Red vs Blue Season Four (2006)
- The Strangerhood Season One (2006)
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External links
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