PAX 2008: Rooster Teeth show off Red v. Blue anime

by Ross Miller { Aug 30th 2008 at 5:00PM }

The Rooster Teeth gang had a rather interesting reveal at this year's PAX 2008 ... an anime of Red v. Blue. Yes, the known machinima has crossed the threshold into Japanese animation. Of course, the voicing and ad lib comedy that's made them famous is still intact. Check out the shaky came footage after the break.

Tags: anime, halo, pax, pax-08, pax-2008, penny-arcade-expo, rooster-teeth

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Youthinized @ Aug 30th 2008 5:09PM

Wow

This would really boost up Adult Swim if this was picked up.

Gehodra @ Aug 30th 2008 5:10PM

Ad lib comedy?

Quarma @ Nov 20th 2008 9:27PM

In short? It means they make it up as they go along.

Edog Lost @ Aug 30th 2008 5:15PM

If they dropped the vulgarity it could do well as a Saturday morning cartoon.

ZaxCG2 @ Aug 30th 2008 5:32PM

SMART idea. Wow. Hope there will be more than like 10 30 minute episodes...

or if its a movie, that'll be an insta-buy.

Mr.ESC @ Aug 30th 2008 8:08PM

Not bad,it would do an excellent Saturday morning cartoon.

Most Halo players are kids or teens anyway.

ianp711 @ Aug 30th 2008 10:43PM

I completely disagree, much of the funny-ness from their series is the vulgarity.

From your statement, I doubt you have watched much of Rooster Teeth's series anyway.

Their series would lose their audience if it bacame a Saturday Morning Cartoon. And if that's the case, let someone else do it. And the folks who watch their stuff is the 18+ (more like 25 and up) crowd.

But Bravo, great video, looking forward to more :)

Edog Lost @ Sep 1st 2008 9:12PM

I think Halo's audience is much larger then 18+. Although Rooster Teeth has a more adult audience, I think you could take out the one time they say "fuck" and the video and story would sustain it's humor.

Personally I think the true humor and originality of Red vs. Blue comes from their clever machinema. Not the vulgarity.

But whatever floats your boat.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 30th 2008 5:16PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0YkXmebAGM

BigD145 @ Aug 30th 2008 7:14PM

Nooooooooooooooooo

Robert Barbieri @ Aug 30th 2008 7:21PM

How is that even related? Or are you pointing out bad this could possibly be as a saturday morning cartoon (They still do those? O_o)

Robert Barbieri @ Aug 30th 2008 7:23PM

How is that even related? Or are you pointing out bad this could possibly be as a saturday morning cartoon (They still do those? O_o)

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 30th 2008 7:49PM

That's the first thing that came to my head when looking at the screen.

Also if you can't see a relevance between Animated Warriors in Robo-Suits and Power Rangers then I'm afraid you're a lil' bit thick.

Gehodra @ Aug 30th 2008 8:17PM

@Robert

What do you mean bad?

Power Rangers is the shit.

knighty @ Aug 30th 2008 5:20PM

DO WANT. DO WANT. DO WANT.

Ahem...yes.

lantus @ Aug 30th 2008 5:24PM

That..was...magnificent.

Kuhnaydeein @ Aug 30th 2008 5:29PM

eDog, don't even joke about them dropping the vulgarity.
This is not Dora the Explor(a), this is Rooster Teeth, and I don't know if you know this, but the logo actually means Cock Bite.

So keep your Anti-vulgarity to yourself, cock bite.

Neebs @ Aug 30th 2008 6:02PM

He's talking about how it would be fit to air if it had no vulgarity, cockbite.

Edog Lost @ Aug 30th 2008 6:06PM

Thank you.

I don't want to hurt your precious baby here. I just think they could see success in that market.

Vazquez @ Aug 30th 2008 5:52PM

Oh that going to be awesome!

Obie @ Aug 30th 2008 6:09PM

Hmmm, seems interesting!

Young_Nastyman @ Aug 31st 2008 7:46AM

best avatar ever

CB @ Aug 30th 2008 6:12PM

I would seriously watch that if it was on television.

CB @ Aug 30th 2008 6:14PM

btw Joystiq, better video: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/259150.html

IcyH0tpatch @ Aug 30th 2008 9:16PM

this will be interesting hopefully there will be a better video soon.

Ken Shammy @ Aug 30th 2008 6:28PM

Kickass. But isn't the title kind of defeatist at this point?

Mr Khan @ Aug 30th 2008 6:36PM

I can't really tell from the vid, but are the environments CG rendered, while the characters and other items are not?

Anyway, its good to see quality Western animation for once. The stuff that passes for animation nowadays makes me cry sometimes, except for Venture Bros and Flapjack (even though flapjack suffers from terrible writing, i quite like the visual style)

rowd149 @ Aug 30th 2008 10:18PM

Hint: Even if RT didn't tap a well-known Japanese art house like most sensible companies do nowadays when adapting a popular franchise into an animated form, chances are Americans are only doing the keys, which are generally a fraction of the number of frames that actually go into an animation.

Dovi @ Aug 30th 2008 10:02PM

Avatar > Every japanese show I've seen

fred @ Aug 31st 2008 12:42AM

avatar IS every anime show you've ever seen.

ToRo @ Aug 31st 2008 1:06AM

@Dovi

Avatar is like most Anime. Except for cowboy bebop. That Anime is more of a movie in my opinion. Top notch stuff when it comes to anime.

Rikurik @ Aug 30th 2008 6:41PM

I came.

Yeah. This video was that good.

MabusRex @ Aug 30th 2008 7:00PM

Freakin' awesome! MUST WATCH!
But where's Caboose?

carg0 @ Aug 30th 2008 8:01PM

RvB anime? is that even possible?

is the Mark VI armor strong enough to contain the giant hairdo's, ocular gigantism and emo that lurks within?

Psaakyrn @ Aug 30th 2008 8:18PM

Nah, just pretend they're giant mechs fighting giant aliens in giant buildings.

With giant explosions.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 30th 2008 8:05PM

I like mah haloz, and I like mah anime, but that doesn't mean I like them mix together. I just feel it lost a lot of the charm the series had when it was a machina series.

But it does remind me I should watch the RVB series again.

Ichi the One @ Aug 30th 2008 8:31PM

Seems very cool IMO.

I agree with the Saturday morning cartoon stuff, would be a great idea, and help with the whole bringing new people to gaming thing. As far as game content goes, Halo is a really soft M, there are T games with worse content IMO (other than online chatter of course).