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."

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

Video link Slashdotted...

[mOoZik]

There it goes...

Does anyone have a mirror?

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 [sponsorsvs...oaders.com]

Re:45...43...

[Lord Prox]

Now showing on an Emule client near you...
SH_Episode00.wmv [ed2k]

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.

mirror of WMV

[haluness]

http://blue.chem.psu.edu/~rajarshi/SH_Episode00.wm v

Enjoy

Re:Torrent?

[mskfisher]

Yep - http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent [mskf.org]

Re:45...43...

[Lord Prox]

and again for the QT ver. Why can't they use something more "normal" like MPEG1 or Xvid. Lawyers probably...
SH_Episode00.mov [ed2k]

Re:Very Cool

[Nivoset]

they just split screened it for when he jumped in, and didn't worry about the other shots, as maroon is hard to tell from red in distance. the most impressive is actually the panning shot in the first scene

Re:45...43...

[sn0wflake]

I couldn't get your links to work but searching for them provided these results:

ed2k://|file|SH_Episode00.mov|7993122|FC24D4B15F9A 8B795DFB07AA985E4CDB|/
ed2k://|file|SH_Episode00.wmv|4337520|40EB0C31DA59 6F772B02AA0564C279F8|/

Inaccurate link

[Have Blue]

Red vs Blue is made with Halo on the Xbox, not the PC. It also uses some relatively extensive post-production effects.

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 [mskf.org]

Have fun...

Re:Inaccurate link

[Derang()]

Season 1, aside from church being a ghost, didn't have a lot of post-production effects. Season 2 had more, but I wouldn't call them extensive.

Also, some of the scenes from RvB season 2 were done on the PC version of halo, usually the ones where lots of up close texture detail of the master chief guys are important to the scene.

Re:Inaccurate link

[Have Blue]

Church was only a single effect, but he was onscreen a LOT. There have also been color filters, distortions, the split-screen trick mentioned elsewhere, and more. I haven't watched the season 2 DVD with commentary yet, so I'm not sure about Halo PC.

Re:Very Cool

[kcb93x]

I bought the DVDs - both Season 1 and Season 2. Very entertaining, plus the commentary explains this. What they did in those cases was actually use the standard multiplayer (non-Capture the Flag, which is the only place where the team colors are fixed) for those scenes. Hence, the flag scenes will only contain those whose body armor is Red (or maroon) or Blue.

Re:Where are the Lawers

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft is in full support of the RvB crew, you apparently don't keep in tune with everything about RvB. Hell, MS let them play Halo 2 for 14 hours straigh recently. Nothing pleases a game maker more than exposure and FREE ADVERTISING.

And the whole Strangerhood thing started with a call from EA, according to Burnie in the GameSpot interview.