Necessity being the mother of invention, if we wanted to keep this show going, we had to figure out a way to support it financially, which led to our subscription model and our merchandising model.
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We've always just had about 20 something controllers sprawled out on the table, now we can put them underneath the table! Really though, we have one director Xbox that is hooked up to our capture device and computer, and that is system linked to a Red team Xbox and a Blue team Xbox, and an Extras Xbox. Each Xbox has its own monitor. And then in season 11, we added an additional machinima station, so that same setup, duplicated on the other side of the desks, so that way, we can have two machinimators working on sometimes two entirely different episodes simultaneously without taking up all the Xboxes.
But now that we're in season 13, which I said is now the finale to this giant war story, where we have this whole planet full of colonists and rebels going to war — that is a ton of Xbox controllers and characters and background actors.
We're at the point where we have more main characters than it is possible to have on one screen in Halo 4. It only allows up to 16 players in a game, and one of those is going to be your cameraman, so that leaves I think we have around 20 lead characters right now, including our lieutenants and villains, and they're never really all in the same scene at the same time, but it's just crazy how much the cast has grown along with the scope of the show.
But yeah, machinima: still a couple of dudes and a lot of Xbox controllers. What's a typical day in the studio like? Luna: Today I get to throw on a skin-tight mo-cap suit and do some motion capture with our guys. Haddock: That's a great thing — Rooster Teeth, and RvB anyway, tends to use a lot of folks around the office to portray a character, so Miles is normally writing or directing the show, and he's playing one of the lead villains. I service the head of the animation department where we're producing a lot of other shows, but I've also played Miles' partner in crime in Red vs Blue for the last three years, so that's been great having some creative breaks.
So in between all the other logistics work here in the department, you can just hop in the booth and pretend you're someone else for an hour. We also have our own mo-cap stage inside our sound stage, so we have the opportunity to throw on the dot suits and provide a lot of the physical animation that serves as the base for the other animators will use to turn that into the characters' performance. Any given character you seen animated on-screen, is a performance from anywhere between three and six people.
So it's a team effort no matter what you're looking at on-screen. Haddock: Ewoks. Luna: Haha, not Ewoks, they can expect not Ewoks. What they can expect is some huge fights, some crazy action, some really stupid comedy and they can expect the stakes to be raised even higher than they've ever been raised before.
It focuses on Shatter Squad , a special operations unit working under the Alliance of Defense. It was previously focused on the lives and adventures of the Reds and Blues from a box canyon known as Blood Gulch for its first seventeen seasons. With over episodes and more still currently in production, Red vs. Blue is the longest running episodic web television series ever. Of all time. The writing process for the series has changed over time. Early in season 1, Burns wrote the episode scripts from week to week, with minimal planning in advance; major plot events were conceived shortly before they were filmed.
Blue is loosely based on the Halo universe, Rooster Teeth encountered some difficulties when trying to synchronize events in the series with the release of Halo 2.
Blue: Season 10 production. Blue is mostly filmed with interconnected Xbox consoles. Originally using the Halo: Combat Evolved engine, it has since been filmed using four sequels and one prequel of the popular video game franchise: Halo 2 , Halo 3 , Halo 4 , Halo: Reach , and Halo 5: Guardians as well as utilized Computer Generated Imagery.
Within a multiplayer game session, the people controlling the avatars "puppet" their characters, moving them around, firing weapons, and performing other actions as dictated by the script, and in synchronization with the episode's dialogue, which is recorded ahead of time.
The "camera" during the first four seasons was simply another player, whose first-person perspective is recorded raw to a computer. As the recording occurs within the game, a few different bugs and post-production techniques have been exploited in order to achieve desired visual effects. In particular, Adobe Premiere Pro is used to edit the audio and video together, impose letterboxing to hide the camera player's head-up display, add the titles and fade-to-black screens, and create some visual effects that cannot be accomplished in-game.
An example of the blend between gameplay and character animation as seen in Revelation. Since then, Rooster Teeth has moved to a new office building with a whole empty storage room, used for motion capture. Rooster Teeth also currently have a full team of animators working on Red vs.
Blue's animation, alongside Monty Oum. They have produced the Poser animation for Season 9 and Season Production on Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox. As game-capture technology and video editing software became more affordable, people began streaming their own playthroughs of videogames, and the Let's Play format was born.
Rooster Teeth continued to produce episodes of Red vs. Blue , but the company began branching out into non-scripted forms. The channel began by posting guides to unlocking certain obscure achievements—then evolved to documenting Easter Eggs in games, highlight reels of funny gameplay clips, and ultimately into longform Let's Plays.
The gameplay was the visual component, but the conversation and the comedy around that was the core element. Now, in , that combination of off-the-cuff commentary and game footage has become the standard Let's Play format, and the videos in the genre garner millions of viewers and even more millions of dollars, across multiple sites like YouTube and Twitch. Achievement Hunter wasn't the origin point of the form, exactlyLet's Plays seemed to emerge in many places at oncebut it became a baseline for much of the genre.
It's become the dominant form of online gaming video. Maybe online video in general. Even YouTube's Machinima channel, which used to be a destination for the form, is now a haven for Let's Plays, parody videos, and podcasts.
The show is now surrounded and, to an extent, underwritten by a vast Rooster Teeth media empire, which includes more traditional animation as well as the Achievement Hunter network, board games, videogame development, and a yearly convention. This is what's interesting about the series, and Rooster Teeth in general: its ongoing existence straddles a line between, on the one hand, being an ongoing work of fan-servicing serialized storytelling, and on the other being a small subset of a massive old guard media company, one of the largest ongoing brands in field that has grown exponentially.
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