Digital Art Timeline

By nostalgicsundove

  • First Animation

    First Animation
    The first animation was created using line drawings printed in negative by the title of "Fantasmagorie"

  • Mechanical Television

    Mechanical Television
    Mechanical television is invented by Baird. It only had 30 lines of resolution and was rather tall and thin. While it is not a piece of physical art, it is the first step in the correct direction.

  • First Video Game

    First Video Game
    Physicist Willy Higinbotham invented the first video game. It was similar to table tennis designed to be played on Oscilloscopes.

  • Pioneering Work of Virtual Reality

    Pioneering Work of Virtual Reality
    Myron Krueger began what is the pioneering work for virtual reality called "Videoplace". It is a computer projection that can interact with the user's shadow.

  • First Use of 3D Animation

    First Use of 3D Animation
    The first use of 3D animation was in a series called "Westworld". It used computer-generated animation and marked a huge milestone in animation and digital art history.

  • Wacom Founding

    Wacom is a company that creates tablets used for art and graphic design and similar products. They make for easy creation of drawings and graphic design pieces.

  • First Paint Program

    First Paint Program
    The first program designed to allow users to draw, edit and manipulate pictures was created and titled MacPaint. It was developed by Apple and Claris.

  • Photoshop Created

    Photoshop is a popular software used for photo editing made by Adobe. The first edition of it was released in this year.

  • First Fully 3D Animated Series

    First Fully 3D Animated Series
    Veggie Tales was the first full-length series created entirely using computer-generated 3D animation.

  • Rise of Digital Art

    As social media became more popular, artists began to post more and more online. This gained lots of traction and others began to do the same. Sites specifically for others to share their digital art began to pop up such as Deviantart.

  • Release of The iPad

    Release of The iPad
    In early April, apple released the iPad. This gave artists a more affordable and easy-to-obtain way to create their art. They could snap a photo of something they drew traditionally and trace over it or make the art from scratch directly in an art program of their choice.

  • NFTs

    NFTs
    Also known as "non-fungible tokens", NFTs created a way for artists to sell and rent their art beyond the physical realm via a blockchain.