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Rooster Teeth, home of Red Vs. Blue and RWBY, shutting down after 21 years (arstechnica.com)
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I know Rooster Teeth isn't perfectly game related per se, but their machinimas and miniseries using game assets were transformative for many of us in the gaming community I believe. So I think it fits.

o7

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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I didn't know anything about rwby but decided to check out a clip after the closure announcement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjcCkMYYzY

It went from the running animation looks terrible to being blown away by the moves being chained together to form an incredible sequence. Amazing fight choreography that makes me want to check out the series.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    clean choreography but lot of the animations look unpolished first drafts and the 3d rendering is fairly bland

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Early rwby wasn’t pretty

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It may not be "pretty" from an aesthetic standpoint, but you watch Yang vs Neo and tell me that's not outstanding choreography. Early RWBY was hampered by technical limitations, and after they started the transition to a different rendering pipeline, the aesthetic dramatically improved, but at the same time Monty Oum passed away. What I wouldn't give to see him after he hit his stride and really go ham. To this day I go back and watch Dead Fantasy 2 just for how insanely good it is for a single person to make that. It's genuinely better than a huge amount of professional fight scenes made today, which is no knock on them, but Monty was truly something else. Every fight was a dance, and Yang vs Neo is in my top best anime fight of all time. Its short, fast, tight, clearly demonstrates Neo's utter dominance over Yang, and absolutely sells their characters.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly if you’re feeling that way, you might just want to watch fight compilations on YouTube. The fight animations and the rest of the show were worked on almost completely separately, and you’ll have to get through at least season 3 before people stop clipping through objects, or background characters just being shadows.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is the story good enough to overlook the poor animation outside of the well down fight scenes?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    … No, sorry. The world building has such a great potential, but it’s clear that they had no direction after Monty’s death, and there are just so many random plot lines that they try to make stick, and then just never reference again. If it was just incidental stuff it might be possible to overlook, but it’s very foundational elements to the narrative that they just drop for no apparent reason.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's a really excellent documentary on YouTube titled On the Verge of Collapse - the Story of Rooster Teeth. Very much worth watching if you were ever a fan of their work.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is sad. Admittedly the company has seen rough times in the past few years, but they didn’t deserve this.

    RIP Rooster Teeth

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    o7

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've always liked them but honestly it seems like it's about time. I can't speak to rwby, but I feel like they've been winding down for a while.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I still follow Tales from the Stinky Dragon podcast which is produced by Rooster Teeth. It is a shame that they probably stop the production of it.

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    • [–] [B] 2 points 2 years ago

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    Click here to see the summaryRooster Teeth, a studio that pioneered machinima with its Red vs. Blue series and went on to develop a fandom-focused stable of shows, videos, and podcasts, is being shut down by parent company Warner Bros.

    Rooster Teeth's general manager pinned the closure on "challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization across platforms, advertising, and patronage."

    The company's name is a slightly more polite version of a disparaging remark ("cock bite") made about the series narrator early on.

    Amid allegations and acknowledgments of a crunch culture, discrimination, harassment, and underwhelming or non-existent response from managers, the company underwent a rebrand for its 20th anniversary in April 2023, with a new logo and a new "Just Playing" tagline.

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