First television series to use machinima

The first television series to use machinima was Portal (G4TV, 2002), a comedy sketch show in which the host, "Cybernaut Dave", explored the virtual worlds of MMO videogames.

Machinima is the art of using real-time computer graphics to make something cinematic. This process differs from traditional film-making as the graphics are often sourced from videogames.

Some of the earliest machinimas were created by editing the gameplay demos in the 1996 first-person shooter videogame Quake, but in recent years, new tools such as Source Filmmaker, Halo Forge and Rockstar Editor have made machinima production more accessible.