Red vs Blue Meets The Sims

blackbearnh writes "The folks over at Rooster Teeth Productions, best known for their Red vs Blue comedy movies based on the Halo rendering engine, are branching out with a second series, with more of a sitcom flair, called The Strangerhood. This time, they're using the Electronic Arts Sims 2 game as their rendering engine."

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[Anonymous Coward]

...40KB/s.. c'mon guys, I'm still getting data.... 33KB/s.. yeah, that's more like it, let's slashdot this sucker...29KB/s...

I'll check it out

[RightInTheNeck]

When someone pointed out Red VS Blue to me, I rolled my eyes and thought yeah here we go some more people on the internet who think they are really funny and think everyone should know it. Red VS Blue turned out to be pretty damn funny actually I enjoyed it. I'd be willing to check something from them out.

Re:Very Cool

[adelord]

do they just take videos of the existing content where they simply do weird things, or do they add additional content to the games?

from their faq www.redvsblue.com/faq_email.shtml:

Q: How do you make the videos? A: This is by far the number one question asked in e-mail. We use a video capture suite by a fantastic company, Canopus. The card we use is a Canopus DV Rex M1. We also use a variety of software, including Adobe Premiere and a great (and cheap!)sound editing tool called Cool Edit 2000. As far as specific questions about certain shots, we reserve all behind-the-scenes info for our sponsors forum which offers a unique look at the magic behind RvB. We don't publish that kind of info on the public site, because we feel it detracts from the enjoyment of the story. We don't want viewers wondering how we got two different colored Marines in the Warthog -- we just want them to enjoy the movie.,

since they use shots you totally can't get from playing the game, maybe the Halo developer gave them a copy of the engine or source, or they opened it themselves. my guess is the former. BTW, the more you watch it the more humor you get out of it. i can't explain why

Sponsors vs Freeloaders

[skyman8081]

In all the hilarity, a group of sponsors, decided to make a video explaining why people should sponsor red vs blue. And it is open to all sponsors of Red vs Blue.

anyway, they are now famous in the red vs blue forums, and burnie, the head guy of RvB, loves it.

Sponsors vs Freeloaders: Sponsor or Die

Re:Very Cool

[illuin]

Actually, they use a stock version of the game. All the "camera work" and "acting" are just players running around in the multiplayer mode of the game, doing what they're normally allowed to do. Their DVD details some of the crazy stunts they had to pull to get some of their shots, which really is quite fascinating.

Re:Very Cool

[DrAegoon]

since they use shots you totally can't get from playing the game

If you're talking about the different colored marines in a warthog, I'm pretty sure that was just clever editing. This is Microsoft we're talking about. I seriously doubt they let them have any part of the Halo engine or source. You can pull off some pretty slick tricks with creative editing too; movie makers have been doing it for almost a century now. Having digital media just makes it easier.

Torrent link

[mskfisher]

I keep forgetting to reply to the story instead of the ACs, so my links usually get buried at the bottom of the page.

Here's a .torrent link for the .WMV file - I've got like 84 seeds as of 8:26PM CDT.

http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent

Have fun...