Rooster Teeth is the Austin-based entertainment company responsible for popularizing the filmmaking art of machinima.
For the unitiated, machnima is the use of video game engines to render graphics in real-time and generate computer animations. Savvy filmmakers use environments from first-person shooters (games like incredibly entertaining web series.
video game characters. Combine that with beautiful video game environments, and you have some great content.
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But after seven years of introducing real life into video games, Rooster Teeth is now introducing video games into real life.
Mythbusters meets Mario, hosted by Rooster Teeth’s own Burnie Burns and Griffon Ramsey, starring Rooster Teeth’s own stuntmen Gus Sorola and Geoff Ramsey.
In the pilot episode, Griffon outfitted Burns’ busted pickup truck with a monitor, black out shades, and a live feed from a Canon DS strung up on a makeshift crane, all in order to simulate the vantage point from wich one drives around in Grand Theft Auto. The next installment pitted a Special Ops veteran with a rifle against a group of annoying gamers (played all too well by the guys from Mega64).
Immersion debuted earlier this year, but Rooster Teeth re-released the program in late November, sweet to see video game practices applied in reality.
