Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. is an American production company located in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California co-founded by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman in 2003 that specializes in the creation of live action shorts, animated pieces and machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. Founder Burnie 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, an award-winning comic science fiction series that premiered on April 1, 2003 and is still in production; its thirteenth season premiered on April 1, 2015. The production team also focuses on projects such as live-action shorts, comedy gameplay with the branch Achievement Hunter, video game development, and full animated productions such as RWBY and X-Ray and Vav. Rooster Teeth hosts its convention, RTX, annually in Austin, Texas.
The company's videos are released on its website and YouTube, on which it maintains over 8.2 million subscribers and over 4 billion video views, as of October 2015.
In 2015, Rooster Teeth will release its feature film debut Lazer Team, a science fiction action comedy film.
"Lazer Team begins decades ago when the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project received a one time signal from outer space, which was never decoded. Or so we were told. Unbeknownst to the general public, the secretly translated signal said two things: One, we are not alone, and two, the galaxy is a dangerous place. Working in total secrecy, the US government has been training a single Champion of Earth – a warrior of incredible skill to don a suit of unimaginable power designed by new alien allies in preparation for Earth’s battle for survival against an evil race of aliens. Unfortunately, the suit never made it all the way to its intended destination. Instead of a lone savior, four hapless idiots find the suit and are thrust into the role of heroes as the titular Lazer Team.