Product Description
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From the minds behind the pioneering web series Red vs. Blue
comes the ROOSTER TEETH SHORTS and Animated Adventures, a live
action comedy series that goes behind the scenes at Rooster Teeth
headquarters and beyond. The four volumes have been condensed
into this BEST OF, as voted on by the fans, which features such
classics as Angry Birds: The Movie (22MM views) and Siri: The
Horror Movie (4.5MM views)
Review
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Rooster Teeth is a force to be reckoned with.
--WIRED.com
An instant runaway hit --The New York Times
Halo meets Stripes --Austin American-Statesman
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About the Actor
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Michael Burnie Burns (born 1973) is an American independent
filmmaker living in Austin, Texas. He is best known for his
contributions in Machinima, a form of filmmaking that uses a
real-time 3D engine, although he has also worked with animation
and live action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several friends
and co-workers, created the Internet machinima series Red vs.
Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Filmed using the video games
Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4, Red vs. Blue was
accled for its humor and originality, making Burns an Internet
celebrity. His success allowed him to co-found the production
company Rooster Teeth Productions. After the immediate popularity
of Red vs Blue, Burns attracted the attention of video game
company Electronic Arts, who asked him to create a promotional
series using their upcoming game, The Sims 2. The result was The
Strangerhood. Burns also premiered P.A.N.I.C.S., a mini-series
that utilizes the F.E.A.R. game engine. As one of the innovators
in the field of machinima, he has made guest appearances at the
Penny Arcade Expo, San Diego Comic-Con International, Sundance
and The Sydney Film Festival. For his work on Immersion (2010), a
live action series that tests video game tropes in the real
world, he has been nominated for an IAWTV award in the "Best
Hosted Taped Web Series" category.
Gavin David Free (born 23 May 1988) is an English filmmaker
currently working at Rooster Teeth Productions. He directed the
machinima Red vs. Blue: Recreation and Red vs. Blue: Relocated.
He is also known for his slow-motion cinematography, in which he
and a friend, Daniel Gruchy, have aYouTube series, The Slow Mo
Guys, featuring slow motion footage of various pranks and stunts,
garnering millions of views since it launched on August 15, 2010.
In April 2011 the channel was voted the winner of YouTube's On
The Rise program which highlights up-and-coming YouTube partners
on the homepage. He has worked on adverts and music videos for
U2, Enter Shikari, Klaxons, Kasabian, X-Press 2 and the
"Everybody Hurts" Charity Single. He is also known for his
slow-motion cinematography work for films including Hot Fuzz
(2007), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Snow White and
the Huntsman and Dredd (2012). He currently is working for
Achievement Hunter at Rooster Teeth.
Joel Pearce Heyman (born September 16, 1971) is an actor best
known for his work with Rooster Teeth Productions, including the
popular machinima web-series Red vs. Blue as Private Michael J.
Caboose/O'Malley, The Strangerhood as Wade, and 1-800-MAGIC as
Bidderman. His writing credits include 1-800-MAGIC and occasional
skits in the live action Rooster Teeth Shorts series. In addition
to his involvement in machinima, he starred in The Schedule, a
live-action film written and directed by Burnie Burns, the
creator of Red vs. Blue, and has also done a range of acting
roles on American television shows including Friends, Angel, The
Inside, Alias, Criminal Minds. He has reprised his Red vs. Blue
role as a Blue Prison Guard in the G4 show Code Monkeys, and has
had a minor role in Halo 3 as an unseen marine with the voice of
Caboose from Red vs. Blue. His character Caboose also has a minor
voice role in the Xbox 360 arcade game,The Dishwasher: Vampire
Smile. He is also a recurring member of the Rooster Teeth Podcast
(previously Drunk Tank). Heyman is a graduate of the University
of Texas at Austin, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Drama Production. He currently resides in Austin,
Texas, to work in the Rooster Teeth offices.
About the Director
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Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. is a production studio located
in Austin, Texas of the United States that specializes in the
creation of live action shorts, animated pieces and 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.
Originally, the group ran a website called drunkgamers.com, a
reviewing site in which Burnie Burns, Gustavo Sorola, and Geoff
Ramsey reviewed video games while drunk to try to get games from
video game developers. Burnie Burns also created
voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' popular
first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved. Eventually,
these videos led to the creation of Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch
Chronicles, an award-winning comedic science-fictionseries that
was announced in May 2002, premiered on April 1, 2003 and ended
on June 28, 2007, with the release of episode 100. Red vs. Blue
gained a huge fan base and, while it is still ongoing and
continues to be the main focus of Rooster Teeth's work, they have
also branched off into numerous separate projects, including
live-action shorts.
The fifth season of Red vs. Blue marked the end of The Blood
Gulch Chronicles, and the beginning of new seasons that featured
a more serious plot and more action, while still retaining its
comedic roots (The Blood Gulch Chronicles also features a
spin-off miniseries called Out of Mind, released between seasons
4 and 5.) The first three seasons released after The Blood Gulch
Chronicles were Reconstruction, Recreation, and Revelation.
These, along with the miniseries Recovery One and miniseries
Relocated comprise The Recollection series. The next two seasons
were simply called Seasons 9 and 10, and comprise the Project
Freelancer series. Unlike past seasons, the Project Freelancer
series is separated by two narratives. The first includes the
cast of the Blood Gulch Chronicles, and continues after the
events of The Recollection trilogy, while the second is a prequel
of The Blood Gulch Chronicles, and tells the story of the Project
Freelancer agents.
The tenth season of Red vs. Blue premiered on Memorial Day 2012,
and ended on November 5, 2012. This season introduces a new
character, Sigma, voiced by Elijah Wood. As of April 2nd 2013,
Rooster Teeth's YouTube page has 1,940,414,905 video views. It
also has 4,024,327 subscribers.
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