red vs blue

I just made another change to my blog structure. You can see, just above these posts, an embedded link to the penultimate episode of red vs blue, the award winning machinima from Rooster Teeth.

Now I'm guessing most of you have never heard of machinima. Not surprising really as I suspect that, other than gamers, most people won't have. So - what is machinima?

Machinima is the art of taking a game engine and using it to create a video. The red vs blue machinima is made using the Halo 2 engine (although it was made using the original Halo engine when it first debuted). Whats really impressive is how good some of the writing is from these machinima. Part of the reason that red vs blue is so famous in the machinima community is the genuinely funny dialogue that Rooster Teeth have come up with.

Another impressive area of machinima is how the producers have taken the game engine, and all its resulting limitations, and still managed to come up with ways to convey what is happening in the video. Check out this link for a reproduction of the courtroom scene in A Few Good Men. Very impressive - especially with the lip synching.

Obviously, these won't replace real actors anytime soon. Still, its impressive how a little creativity can go so far.