RvB Nerdery

Huge Red vs. Blue nerd, also learning animation for fun. Ergo, RvB animations and 3D renders.

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Star Wars - Not Strong Enough (music video)

Not my usual RvB content, but I've been a massive Star Wars fan since I was a small child, courtesy of my father falling in love with the franchise since he saw A New Hope in theatres on opening day. I'm really happy with this video.

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RvB Music Video: Like a Prayer

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Red vs. Blue Mercenary Tribute

Tribute to Locus, Felix, and Siris, also known as Samuel Ortez, Isaac Gates, and Mason Wu, the (im)famous mercenaries from Red vs. Blue.

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Desert Storm Carolina

An old render from September 2024 for a since-on-hiatus project, but it still looked kinda cool I think. I experimented with some dirt tricks in the shader editor that I got off a YouTube video.

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CRASH music video

CRASH is widely considered a spiritual success to Red vs. Blue, so figured I can put this on my RvB page too.

If you haven't seen it, it's so good. There's links to watch it in the video description. It has a lot of inspirations from RvB, but also clearly carves its own identity. It's much more grounded than RvB and is less flashy and comedic, having a more serious mystery element (but it still absolutely is funny).

As a fan of realistic military shows like Generation Kill, I personally was super impressed by how authentic the radio chatter was and how slow-paced and tactical the animated combat was. And the mystery elements have absolutely drawn me in. I look forward to seeing what comes next (only 8 episodes and 5 bonus episodes so far).

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Agent York, battle damaged

Foxtrot-12, tired, dirty, and damaged.

I did a lot of practice with some procedural damage, crack, smudge, and dirt materials to make some dirty armor and equipment without needing any texturing work! Some details like the cracks may be easier to see if you zoom in a little. Tested with my favorite Foxtrot-12.

Jamie Dunbar's YouTube tutorial was a huge help and the main thing I followed to make these updated materials for my existing Project Freelancer rig (which was in turn made by me via modifying The Halo Archive's Halo 3 rig).

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Tex II sniping

Two different ideas packaged into one post since they were made out of the same line of thought and in the same file (one of them has two renders but I count them as the same idea because they're basically the same image).

Here we have Epsilon-Tex, aka Tex 2.0 / Tex II (the Tex formed from Epsilon's memories rather than Alpha's) in the memory unit scene with a sniper rifle.

Two camera positions rendered. I was actually making the next section first but as I did it I realized that before I added Church in and posed the bipod (you'll see, if you keep going down the post), I had a decent serious pose render available. I tried to get the posing as accurate to real rifle aiming positions as possible, using a recorded U.S. Army Rifleman presentation for reference. It's not perfect, and Halo Spartan rigs aren't really the best for matching tightly bound up human poses, and the helmets are pretty poor at making cheek welds against a rifle stock, but overall I think it was pretty good.

Tex mounting Church

Mounting her bipod on Epsilon-Church haha.

I don't think he's lying on the ground like that willingly, moreso she forced him down then planted the bipod on him. Maybe complained to him to keep still lol. Idk, come up with your own premise if you like.

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Red vs. Blue music video | The Line

Tried to make it themed loosely around the Great War (aka Human-Covenant War) and how that caused Project Freelancer to be made which would have lasting impacts post-war. So yeah.

Thumbnails was made by me, might post a clean version of it soon.

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Ghillie Wyoming

Had this idea a bit ago, might do more with it in an actual scene sometime, maybe add Florida as the flanker, but yeah. Made two versions, one with the armor lights off and one with them on.

Since Wyoming is the sniper of Project Freelancer's top squad, figured it would be fun to give him a ghillie suit (ghillie suit gotten from Strider AU's ODST pack, I believe they got it from Casper from Battlefield 2042 but not sure).

If curious what a flanker is, basically in real life snipers usually operate in 2-3 man teams, with there being the spotter to spot targets and give other relevant information to the shooter, and then the shooter is just focused on firing the weapon according to the spotter's instructions. In a pinch, both are usually trained to use the rifle, so the spotter can be a backup shooter if something goes wrong. And then sometimes there's a flanker that's there to watch their backs and protect them while they're hidden away and focused on the target, with a more normal range weapon usually (info from Wikipedia, take as you will). In RvB Season 10, when Wyoming and Florida were observing Charon's Longshore Shipyards base, it seemed Wyoming was acting as spotter and shooter and then Florida was also there so presumably he coulda been the flanker.

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Tex's footrest

After my "When your TEX is the one who Dominates" meme animation, one of my friends suggested this scenario ("church scrubbing the floor with tex using him as a footrest"). So I figured I'd throw this together.

The house was made by that same friend for a prior render of their own, I didn't have any good interiors on hand so I asked if they could lend me the file and they obliged! Modified by me to fit the scenario better.

And that on the TV is Epsilon-Texas vs Grif, Sarge, Simmons, and Tucker from Red vs. Blue Revelation: This One Goes to Eleven (Season 8 Episode 10).

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RvB and where it is - a spreadsheet

My friend has made an RvB content spreadsheet, so that anyone can find the RvB content they're looking for!

Drives, Torrents, YouTube playlists, Mega links and Media-fire links, miscellaneous videos with the VAS (Kathleen Zuelch ball-punching videos has 3 links…), MP3 and lossless version of the soundtrack, S1- 17 with encoded subtitles, a BGC activity book I don't think many have seen, and a in-progress fan-content sheet!

Feel free to submit your own content or anything you didn't see there either as a comment on the sheet or in the contact document! We're continuously looking to add things so the more the better :) (or if you see anything that's yours and don't want it there)

RvB and where it is

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Great spreadsheet

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Meme Animation: When your TEX is the one who Dominates

Little meme animation I made based on another animation I found on YouTube (link in description), that had really reminded me of Tex and Church.

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Recovery Force: Final Stand

A little 2D-style 3D render focusing around the Freelancer Command soldiers in their attempt to take on the Meta in Season 6: Reconstruction. And I believe they are technically the Freelancer Command soldiers not the Recovery Force but they have the same armor and using Recovery Force in the name sounded cooler lol

My first time trying to make use of shadows like this!

The quote, if you don't remember, is from the squad leader of one of the Freelance Command Soldier squads; when the Meta finally reveals his presence, the squad stares at him for a moment, before raising their rifles, and the squad leader bravely says "Primary target has arrived. Engage! Engage!" and they make their fruitless attempt to take down one of the galaxy's biggest threats. I respect that squad very much.

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Labyrinth tribute

I wasn't personally much of a fan of the Shinso Trilogy, particularly The Shisno Paradox and Singularity, but Singularity's Labyrinth sections did have some cool character development.

Except for Simmons. He was robbed!

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"Computer, what about there? In the canyon, can we land?" "Sheila, give me manual control, now!" Warning. Altitude critical. Brace for impact. "Hold on everyone! Hold on! Everybody just hold on-..."

I decided to throw together a little render of the cockpit of Sheila after Texas crashed at Outpost 17.

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To commemorate the return of Rooster Teeth, asuper brief animation.

The RvB dialogue and scene I thought could be re-interpreted as RT, our old friend, coming back, and us missing them and running to them. And the lyrics of Good Fight seemed fitting to me, Rooster Teeth being a ghost that lingers in our past.

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Red vs. Blue Archive holiday poster

I help run the Red vs. Blue Archive, which formed when Rooster Teeth took the videos off YouTube. The Archive of Pimps came later and is the better archive place, but RvB Archive can be used without download and on mobile, and is more of a RvB fan discussion group now.

Anyway, I made us a simple Holiday poster I figured I'd share.

Link to the archive is below, only if you're interested.

Red vs. Blue Archive link

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