<P> As the camera player's view has a heads - up display (HUD), black bars are added in post-production to hide the top and bottom portions containing irrelevant in - game information, creating a letterbox effect . Most machinima is made with computer games, which often have HUDs that can be easily disabled in one way or another . Console games such as Halo and Halo 2 are often more limited in this respect . In 2010, Rooster Teeth Productions released a remastered edition of The Blood Gulch Chronicles that removed the black bars and aiming reticle existent in previous versions of the series, which was done by re-shooting the first four seasons in the PC versions of Halo and Halo 2 . </P> <P> A book based on the series, titled Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide, was published November 17, 2015 . Written by Eddy Rivas and Burnie Burns, it collects information about the series over its first twelve seasons and most of its thirteenth season . </P> <P> Red vs. Blue attracted interest immediately; the first episode had 20,000 downloads within a day . Shortly after episode 2, Bungie Studios contacted Rooster Teeth . Although the crew had feared that any contact would be to force an end to the project, Bungie enjoyed the videos and was supportive; one staff member called the production "kind of brilliant". A deal was arranged to ensure that the series could continue to use Bungie's game properties without license fees . Red vs. Blue continued to attract more attention, and, by April 2004, Kevin J. Delaney of The Wall Street Journal estimated that weekly viewership was between 650,000 and 1,000,000 . In a 2006 interview, Strange Company founder Hugh Hancock called the series probably "the most successful machinima productions (sic)" and estimated that it was generating almost US $200,000 annually . Red vs. Blue content was also included with a premium "Legendary" edition of Halo 3 . </P> <P> Red vs. Blue was widely acclaimed within the machinima industry . The first season won awards for Best Picture, Best Independent Machinima Film, and Best Writing at the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences' 2003 Machinima Film Festival . Two years later, at the 2005 festival, the third season won an award for Best Independent Machinima and was nominated for five others . At the 2006 Machinima Festival, the series was nominated for awards in voice acting and writing, but won neither . </P>

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