"The Blood Gulch Chronicles":http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtml is a seriously funny cartoon created using "Microsoft's Halo":http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/ game engine. Gosh. If you have some time (and bandwidth) to spare to download the trailer + the 6 episodes to date, it is certainly worth it. I downloaded the "trailer":http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/trailer/RvB_Trailer_DivX.zip (12.6MB) this morning and it was mega-hilarious. Rolling on the floor funny.
Its an excellent example of "machinima":http://www.machinima.com :
bq. "Beyond the bleeding edge of film there’s things going on that could reinvent storytelling. There’s bedroom hackers and new-wave garage auteurs taking technologies developed for computer games to make a new kind of computer-generated film.
bq. They’re creating virtual worlds and virtual actors, using their imaginary worlds to create in a bedroom what others can't create using $100,000 sets and cameras. They’re shooting their films, but they’re shooting them in worlds that will never exist, using actors who never lived - and because of the technology they’re using, they aren’t painstakingly animating these films frame-by-frame, they’re filming fast, cheap and live." - from "Machinima.com":http://www.machinima.com/displayarticle2.php?article=186
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