Actors - Burnie Burns

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Burnie Burns

	Actors - Burnie Burns

Michael "Burnie" Burns (born 1973) is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His most notable contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created a series called Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles
, filmed using the Xbox video game Halo. Red vs Blue was quickly acclaimed for its humour and originality, eventually elevating Burns to the status of an Internet celebrity, visibility that allowed him to create one of the few successful machinima film-houses in the industry, Rooster Teeth Productions. Burns even attracted the attention of video game giant Electronic Arts, who asked him to create a promotional series using their new game, The Sims 2. The result, The Strangerhood, has received mixed reviews. Burns also recently premiered P.A.N.I.C.S., a new mini-series that utilizes the F.E.A.R. game engine. He has appeared at several film festivals.

The beginnings of Red vs Blue

In 2003, Burns joined the staff of a website called "drunkgamers". Hosted by Texans Geoff Fink and Gustavo Sorola, drunkgamers brought Burns into contact with what would become his future team for Red vs Blue.

Burns began to add weekly videos of his favorite game, Halo on the Xbox, to the drunkgamers site. It is not known what truly sparked the idea for Red vs Blue, but Burns has claimed that it mostly drew from over analyzing why the vehicles in Halo were called what they were. He also credits the birth of the series to being "really bored". In early 2003 a trailer of The Blood Gulch Chronicles was made but drunkgamers was shut down shortly thereafter. A few months later, Burns rallied the entire staff of drunkgamers, as well as friends Matt Hullum and Joel Heyman, and created the first episode of The Blood Gulch Chronicles. The episode began an Internet phenomenon that is still continuing today.

Rooster Teeth Productions

After the first season of Red vs Blue, Burns, voicing the character of Church, became an instant celebrity in the machinima community. As the director, writer, and lead actor of the series, Burns is sharing the fame of being the star of Red vs Blue, but is also the driving force behind the series. His series earned many awards at the 2004 Machinima Festival, including best picture and best writing. The series still continues and is now in its fourth season, which started August 29, 2005.

Burns regularly attends conventions featuring Red vs Blue, and has made several appearances on G4techTV. He currently lives in Buda, Texas with his wife and two sons.

Characters

In addition to writing, directing, and producing, Burns provides voice work for the different machinma projects, including:

Red vs Blue

Private Leonard L. Church
Lopez "The Heavy"
Tex (early episodes)
Vic (Season 2 onward)
The Red Zealot (using a computer to change the pitch and speed of his voice)
Phil
Vic Jr.

The Strangerhood

Tovar
Griggs

PANICS

Bravo 1

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Burnie Burns ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Burnie Burns; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay