2006 in machinima

The following is a list of notable machinima-related events in the year 2006. These include several new machinima productions, season finales, and the 2006 Machinima Festival.

Events

• January 30 – Hugh Hancock announced his resignation as editor-in-chief of Machinima.com.^[1]
• March 20 – July 16 – The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences presented a machinima exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.^[2]
• June 20 – Jeff Pulver announced that Chris Burke's This Spartan Life video blog about network neutrality won the "Save the Net" Viral Ad Contest.^[3]
• June 21 – Pentagon officials testified to the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that a machinima video made using Electronic Arts' Battlefield 2 was terrorist propaganda. Georgia Institute of Technology assistant professor Ian Bogost and the video's creator disputed the claim.^[4]
• July 17 – The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences announced the 2006 Machinima Festival.^[5]
• November 1 – GameStop began to take preorders for Halo 3 and announced that the Legendary edition of the game will include content from Red vs. Blue and This Spartan Life.^[6]
• November 4 – November 5 – The 2006 Machinima Festival was held.^[7]
• November 26 – American football player Dallas Clark, a tight end for the Indianapolis Colts, complained about a commercial produced by Rooster Teeth Productions for Electronic Arts' video game Madden NFL 07. In the commercial, he is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles players.^[8]
• November 30 – Rooster Teeth Productions released a director's cut of the controversial advertisement involving Dallas Clark; in it, Clark plays and dominates every position.^[9]

Notable releases

• February 9 – The first season of ILL Clan's Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will premiered.^[10]
• February 9 – Edgeworks Entertainment announced The Heretic, a prequel to The Codex.^[11]
• April 1 – Season 4 of Rooster Teeth Productions' Red vs. Blue ended with episode 77.^[12]
• April 26 – Strange Company released the first episode of BloodSpell.^[13]
• April 27 – Season 1 of The Strangerhood ended with episode 17.^[14]
• May 4 – Red vs. Blue Season Four and The Strangerhood Season One were released on DVD.^[15]
• May 6 – Video blog 5 for This Spartan Life, which concerns network neutrality, was released.^[16]
• June 16 – Rooster Teeth Productions announced its new mini-series Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind.^[17]
• August 29 – The first season of Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will ended with episode 10.^[18]
• September 4 – Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind ended with episode 5.^[19]
• September 28 – The second season of TrashTa1k with ILL Will began.^[20]
• September 30 – Season 5 of Red vs. Blue began for website sponsors with episode 78.^[21]
• October 4 – "Make Love, Not Warcraft", an episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park, aired.^[22] As a result of cooperation with Blizzard Entertainment, the episode features segments of World of Warcraft machinima.^[23]
• December 8 – The last episode of Strange Company's BloodSpell, episode 14, was released.^[24]

Active series

• BloodSpell (premiered 2006)
• Neverending Nights (premiered 2004)
• Red vs. Blue (premiered 2003)
• Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind (2006)
• This Spartan Life (premiered 2005)
• The Strangerhood (2004–2006)
• Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will (premiered 2006)

Awards

Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences

• Best Picture: The Adventures of Bill & John: Episode II^[25]
• Best Series: The Fixer^[25]
• Best Direction: Edge of Remorse^[25]
• Best Virtual Performance: Puppeteering: Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will^[25]
• Best Virtual Performance: Custom Animation: Company of Heroes^[25]
• Best Voice-Acting Performance: Deviation^[25]