Out of Character

摘要

Whoever said you can't mix business and pleasure never met the guys from Rooster Teeth Productions: They produce Webisodes, or Web-based episodic shows, using content from their favorite computer game, Halo. The weekly episodic CG series, called "Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles," comprises five minutes of animated game-play video set within the game's world. However, it places the Halo characters in a unique situational comedy that, unlike the game, is not interactive. This process is accomplished using the new genre machinima, or 3D game-based filmmaking (see "Making Machinima," pg. 26), whereby segments from a computer game are captured on video and editing together for a uniquely scripted mini-movie. And, it appears that the series is taking the Internet by storm, just like Halo did in the gaming space.