News Animators turns to video games

From the Beeb:

A riotous animated series called Red vs Blue, which pokes fun at modern video game culture, is proving popular online.

The internet has become a popular repository for DIY culture in the last 10 years.

Novels, comic strips, music, films and cartoons produced by amateur artists, directors and writers are available in abundance on the net with varying degrees of quality.

But a group of writers, performers and gamers in Texas have produced an increasingly popular and unusual cartoon cartoon series.

The cartoon details the life of two rival camps of soldiers, the Reds and Blues, who spend their time ruminating about life, the universe and everything, stationed in separate bases in a creek called Blood Gulch.

"Red vs Blue pokes fun at the basic tenets of modern video games," explained Burnie Burns, the writer and creator of Red vs Blue, who also voices the characters Church and Tex.

The series, which has reached episode 14, is unusual because it is created using a video game called Halo.

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