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Rooster Teeth, home of Red Vs. Blue and RWBY, shutting down after 21 years

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.

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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.
- Iirc Monty Oum's fight animations where one of the biggest selling points of the show in the beginning. RIP Monty
- clean choreography but lot of the animations look unpolished first drafts and the 3d rendering is fairly bland
  
  Early rwby wasn’t pretty
- 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.
  
  Is the story good enough to overlook the poor animation outside of the well down fight scenes?
- Absolutely. RWBY set the standard for quality when it came to nontraditionally produced shows online and really spawned a new era of independent media.
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.
- Ooh thanks. I'll add that to my watch list once I finish finals...
- Two hours long? Damn that's long.
  
  It's worth it. It covers their entire history from the launch of RvB. They were distributing video on the internet before YouTube existed.
This is sad. Admittedly the company has seen rough times in the past few years, but they didn’t deserve this.
RIP Rooster Teeth
- always sad to see a piece of internet history go down the drain.
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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.
- Most of the old classics have been, tbh. Life moves on and corporations come for their piece of the pie.
- It seems like podcasts are their main product now. And that should be staying for the moment. That's what I listen to. I don't watch their videos anymore, and I haven't in quite a while.
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.
- yeah, if Rooster Teeth is providing the resources for it it's gonna be nixed.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Rooster 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.
In 2018, Ars features editor emeritus Nathan Mattise visited RTX, calling it the "biggest gaming and Internet event you've never heard of."
Discovery property scuttling, the conglomerate has been on a cost-cutting and catalog-thinning streak of late, potentially driven by tax break opportunities.
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