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Season 2 Premiere of Red vs Blue
brent_linux writes "Red VS Blue, winner of several awards, has started up their second season. If you missed their first season you can pick up the DVD from their online store. To view the high quality videos you have to donate money to the cause, but like before you can view the lower quality ones for free."
Red vs. Blue is machinima, that is, animation made with the help of consumer 3D software; in this case, Halo for the XBox.
So they took a bunch of guys, hooked them up in Halo, wrote a script, got some cameraguys, and recorded a DVD. It's VERY VERY funny stuff.
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
Red vs Blue is an online animated series featuring characters from the video game Halo. It falls under the category "machinima" - which means that they use existing engines to create or animate characters and "act" out scenes. Sundays and Mondays are particularly bad for them because (after being mentioned on Slashdot last year) their traffic has increased tremendously. After last year's success, they put together a DVD of the first season and some additional stuff. It's $20 and well worth it if you enjoy the series. As the post mentions, they've won quite a few awards and have gotten lots of press as a result. Oh, and it's damn funny. (Why is my first post modded troll? - the story is a dupe and it's nearly two weeks after the fact.)
Ok, so here's the skinny.
Red vs. Blue is based on Halo, and in fact, the videos are created by a group of guys choreographing the movements of a multiplayer Halo game to follow their story.
The story is a relatively simple one. Between the Covenant invasion (Halo) and the invasion of Earth (Halo 2), a brutal civil war broke out between the human marines (the reds versus the blues). While in most places, the fight is ugly and bloody, the boys in Blood Gulch Canyon can't seem to figure out why the hell they are where they are, seeing as though their location holds no strategic value.
Throw in lines like "Women are like Voltron. The more you can hook up, the better it gets," an overbearing sergeant, and a retard of a blue recruit, and hillarity ensues.
I hope this helps.
here is a link to a torrent from suprnova:
Season 1 Episodes 1-19
SURELY NOT!!!!!