Billy B Burson III is a voice actor, visual post artist, and puppeteer for Death Battle, DBX and Death Race.
Biography
Billy is the Virtual Production Manager for RT Direct, overseeing Unreal Engine based programming including Death Battle and DBX. He is also a personality and actor in several other Rooster Teeth productions.
He was hired by Rooster Teeth in 2016 as a visual post artist for RWBY and has since been a Lighting & Compositing artist on Red vs. Blue, RWBY Chibi, & Neon Konbini, eventually becoming Visual Post Production Supervisor for all three series starting in 2018.
After being cast for the role of Ringmaster in the 2019 season 4 relaunch of DBX, he fully joined the art production side of Death Battle and DBX beginning with Goro VS Machamp.
He became showrunner and director for Season 6 of DBX, as well as directing the Death Battle Season 9 Premiere.
Characters Portrayed
Death Battle
DBX
Death Race
Fights Puppeteered
Death Battle
Trivia
- Billy has previously worked as a lighting and composition artist for Free Birds and The Book of Life.
- Billy's middle name is not an initial for anything; it is literally just the letter B.
- Billy is the fifth voice actor to voice two combatants in the same episode, after Burnie Burns, Kira Buckland, Michael Kovach, and Nick Landis.
- This was a reference to how both combatants are known for sharing the same voice actors, Mel Blanc and Eric Bauza.