MachinimaMachinima () is an animation technique using real-timescreen capturing in computer graphics engines, video games and virtual worlds to create a cinematic production. The term machinima is a portmanteau of the words machine and cinema. According to Guinness World Records, machinima is an art of making animated narrative films from computer graphics, most commonly used by video games.
Rooster TeethAmerican entertainment company (2003–2024)Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC was an American entertainment company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, which is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Burnie BurnsMichael Justin "Burnie" Burns (born January 18, 1973) is an American actor, writer, director and media proprietor from Austin, Texas. He was a co-founder, former chief executive officer, and former chief creative officer of Rooster Teeth. He is noted for his contributions in machinima, a form of filmmaking that uses video game technology in its production, and also works with animation and live action. Burns is also known for his work in the hosting and podcasting field.
Halo (franchise)Video game seriesVideo game seriesHalo is an American military science fictionvideo game series and media franchise, originally developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by Halo Studios (previously 343 Industries), part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in November 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach.
BungieAmerican video game developerBungie, Inc. is an American video game company based in Bellevue, Washington, and a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment. The company was established in May 1991 by Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones after publishing Jones's game Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete.
Multiplayer video gameA multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet.
Blood GulchBlood Gulch is a multiplayer map in the first-person shooterHalo video game series. It first appeared in Halo: Combat Evolved, and was remade for Halo 2 as "Coagulation", as well as for Halo: Reach as "Hemorrhage" and Halo: The Master Chief Collection as "Bloodline". It also had spiritual successors in Halo 3's "Valhalla", in Halo 4 and Halo Wars as "Ragnarok", and in Halo 5's "Basin".
Civil warScene of the Battle of Aleppo in 2012 during the Syrian civil warA civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies. The term is a calque of Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.Web seriesA web series, also known as a short-form series or web show, is a sequence of short scripted or unscripted videos, generally in episodic form, released via the Internet. A typical episode of a web series can be anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes long (though some may run up to 20 minutes). A single installment of a web series can be called a webisode or an episode.Live fire exerciseMilitary exercise using live munitions National Guard of Ukraine soldiers firing live munitions during a live fire exercise A live fire exercise (LFX) is a military exercise in which live ammunition and ordnance is used, as opposed to blanks or dummies. The term can also be found in non-military usage.
First-person shooterVideo game genre A player explores an area in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, with their equipped weapon visible in the bottom right of the first-person perspective A fast-paced battle against multiple enemies in Ultrakill A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre focused on weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.
ParodyA parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironicimitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc.), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
Voice-overVoice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, film, theatre, and other media in which a descriptive or expository voice provides verbal narration, accompanying the events of a narrative from outside the universe of the narrative or while breaking the fourth wall (i.e. non-diegetically).*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.