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Rooster Teeth Productions is an American production company located in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California involved primarily in the production of machinima (films created in real-time video game environments) with its long-running series ''Red vs. Blue'', as well as live action shorts and series, comedy gameplay with the branch Achievement Hunter, and full animated productions such as ''RWBY'' and ''X-Ray and Vav''. Rooster Teeth hosts its convention, RTX, annually in Austin, Texas. Rooster Teeth was founded by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman in 2003. Burns created voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' popular first-person shooter video game ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. Eventually, these videos led to the creation of ''Red vs. Blue'', which premiered in April 2003 and is still in production, making it the longest-running web series of all time. The production team also focuses on projects such as reality shows, video game development, entertainment news programs and podcasts. Rooster Teeth will release its feature film debut ''Lazer Team'', a science fiction action comedy film in 2016. The company's videos are released on its website and YouTube, on which it controls a multi-channel network and maintains over 8.3 million subscribers and over 4 billion video views on its primary channel, as of December 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/user/RoosterTeeth/about )〕 ==Company history== While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum collaborated with actor Joel Heyman on a 1997 independent film called ''The Schedule''.〔Moltenbrey, Gross.〕 The film helped Hullum and Heyman to find work in Los Angeles, California, but otherwise had limited success.〔Moltenbrey〕 Working for a local company named Telenetwork, Burns later met Geoff Ramsey (then named "Geoff Fink"), Gustavo Sorola, Dan Godwin, and Jason Saldaña, and the five formed ''drunkgamers.com'', a website where the five reviewed various video games while drunk.〔Gross; Konow, 1.〕 According to Ramsey, the group tried to receive free games to review, but "incurred the wrath" of several game developers in doing so.〔Konow, 1.〕 One of the non-gameplay videos that the ''drunkgamers'' crew created during this time was a live-action parody of the Apple Switch ad campaign. This video featured Sorola as the main actor, used Peter Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" as background music, and focused on the lack of games available for the Apple Macintosh computer.〔Mac Gamer Switch Parody.〕 Gus Sorola and Burnie Burns said that the name change from 'Drunk Tank Podcast' to 'Rooster Teeth Podcast' was for the same reason that 'Drunk Gamers' was changed to 'Rooster Teeth'. They explained that they realized nobody would give games or sponsor something with 'drunk' in the title "because it was so unprofessional." The name ''Rooster Teeth'' is a euphemism for ''Cockbite''.〔Oliver.〕 Rooster Teeth has attributed their success to maintaining their own community site and was reluctant to join YouTube initially, stating they viewed them as a "competitor". In 2014, having signed a two-year lease, the entire company (now consisting of over 90 employees) moved into Stage 5 at Austin Studios. The company will release their feature film debut in 2015 with ''Lazer Team'', a science fiction comedy. In November 2014, Rooster Teeth was acquired by Fullscreen for an undisclosed amount. Rooster Teeth agreed to be bought to give itself, "the resources and tools" needed to compete against other producers. Burns elaborated by saying they consider Netflix, HBO and Amazon their current competition.〔 On February 3, 2015, Burns confirmed that Rooster Teeth would be establishing an office in Los Angeles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rooster Teeth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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