Red vs Blue | |
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Genre |
Comic science fiction black comedy drama-thriller (since season 6) |
Created by | Burnie Burns |
Written by | Burnie Burns (seasons 1-10) Matt Hullum (seasons 1-10; 14) Miles Luna (seasons 10-14) Monty Oum (seasons 8-10) Eddy Rivas (season 10) Joe Nicolosi (season 15-present) |
Directed by | Burnie Burns (seasons 1–10) Matt Hullum (seasons 1–10; 14) Gavin Free (season 7) Monty Oum (seasons 8-10) Miles Luna (seasons 11–14) Joe Nicolosi (season 15-present) |
Voices of | Burnie Burns Joel Heyman Jason Saldaña Matt Hullum Geoff Ramsey Gustavo Sorola Dan Godwin Yomary Cruz Shannon McCormick Jen Brown Kathleen Zuelch |
Theme music composer | Trocadero |
Opening theme |
"Blood Gulch Blues" (seasons 1–5) "Contact" (seasons 11-13) |
Composer(s) | Trocadero Jeff Williams David Levy |
No. of seasons | 15 |
No. of episodes | 282 + 22 from miniseries (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Matt Hullum Burnie Burns |
Producer(s) | Koen Wooten (Season 13-present) |
Running time | 7 minutes average per episode |
Production company(s) | Rooster Teeth Productions |
Release | |
Original network | Rooster Teeth |
Original release | April 1, 2003 | – present
External links | |
Website |
Red vs. Blue (stylized as redvsblue), often abbreviated as RvB, is an American comic science fiction web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is distributed through Rooster Teeth's website, as well as on DVD, Blu-ray, and more recently syndicated on the El Rey Network, Netflix and its own YouTube channel. The series initially centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon (Blood Gulch), in a parody of first-person shooter video games, military life, and science fiction films. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its premiere on April 1, 2003. The series consists of fifteen seasons and five mini-series. Red vs. Blue is the longest running episodic web series and second longest running web series of all time.
Red vs. Blue emerged from Burnie Burns' voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' FPS video game Halo: Combat Evolved. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of Halo: Combat Evolved and its followups on the Xbox consoles.