The inspiration behind this blog post came when I was thinking of doing some Christmas shopping for my sister. (Hopefully she doesn’t read this post…) I was looking to buy her the DVD Boxset of the first five seasons of Red vs. Blue – The Blood Gulch Chronicles. The Box set price is $69 USD which is reasonable considering you’re getting five seasons, unfortunately for me I live in Canada so I also have to worry about shipping costs, duty & customs, and the exchange rate difference. (But that has nothing to do with my blog post). [Btw, if anyone knows where I can buy this in Canada, please let me know!]

For those of you who haven’t heard of Red vs. Blue, it’s a machinima series (imagine a movie or tv show, but filmed within a video game) based on the popular Xbox 360 game – Halo. I first came across Red vs. Blue when doing some research for work; I watched a few episodes and immediately fell in love with the show. I was also lucky enough to get an interview with Burnie Burns, Co-Founder of the Roosterteeth (RT) community – and producer of the Red vs. Blue episodes.
Burnie Burns and partners, Gustavo Sorola and Geoff Fink chose machinima because it’s an efficient way to produce animation – 3 people can produce around five minutes/ week. They then immediately post the video on the Web – for free.

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