Billy B Burson III is the former Rooster Teeth Virtual Production Manager, Visual Post Production Supervisor for RT Direct, and a general Lighting & Compositing Artist at Rooster Teeth Animation. He also an occasional personality and actor in several other Rooster Teeth productions.
After graduating from University of Hawai'i Kapi'olani's New Media Arts program, he began his career at Hawaii Animation Studios before moving to Texas in 2013 to work at Reel FX, where he was a lighting & compositing artist on Free Birds, The Book of Life and Rock Dog.
He was hired by Rooster Teeth in 2016 as a lighting artist for RWBY. Additionally has been a Lighter & Compositor on Red vs. Blue and RWBY Chibi, Neon Konbini as well as Visual Post Supervisor for all three series starting in 2018. He has also written and directed segments for RWBY Chibi, is currently Showrunner and Director for DBX, worked on multiple DEATH BATTLE! episodes, and contributed as a Look Development Artist for Gen:LOCK.
Roles[]
- Ringmaster the host of DBX
- Gerald in Red vs. Blue: Singularity
- Movie Grif (Jeff Bridges)
- Nameless Marine Three
- Pilot / Strider Operator in gen:LOCK
- Robber from Camp Camp
- Hipster Clerk
- Manager One
- Oil Man in Nomad of Nowhere
- Witch Hater
- Branwen Tribe Bandit in RWBY
- Man in Crowd from Blood Fest
- Homeless Man in Branded
Trivia[]
- In Red vs Blue he was the voice actor for Gerald, husband to Sheryl who is portrayed by Christine Stuckart. Both characters are sentient lens light flares whose actors are, thematically, Lighting Artists at Rooster Teeth.