"Susan Kare, the artist who gave computing human face"
The very first pixel artist is unknown but was a Xerox Corporation employee. THIS image shows the very first true pixel art. After Apple bought the OS to develop the first MacOS, it was Susan Kare who led the creative team that developed the icons we all know today and is credited as the first pixel artist.
An overview is HERE • Her Website is HERE • An Interview is HERE • Wikipedia is HERE • Kare prints, books and gifts are HERE
So now you know!
*Some links and copy added by jalonso since iLLke's original submission was lacking a little back info.*
I'm reserching for a youtube video bout what we could consider teh 1st pixelart ever created.
Kare created the Icons in 1983-86 acordingto wikipedia.
Before that, Space invaders was release in 1978 that definetly must be considered pixelart.
Also pong (Odyssey Magnabox clone) and a bucnh of Atary games where relased from 1972 and 1978, but with this ones we can discuse if can be considered pixelart or not.
Befora that I could only finf the digitalization of photografy and vector art, but definetly thats not pixelart.
Do I miss somthing?
Ehm, I think there were a lot of games made before the first graphical user interface?
Game nr1 Spacewar! has some cool artwork, but I don't know if it is based on a bitmap or on vectors.. But it is from 1961!!!
The Xerox image was the best I could find when posting this article and was meant to show the pixelling style used byXerox as opposed to the 'first' ever pixelart. No video game was ever made or produced prior to the original usel interface which is where obviously the first pixels would have been created.
*Myth is... the arrow cursor gets the credit :/
The image showing the *first* true pixel art is named xerox-star-interface.jpg. Wikipedia tells us Xerox Star was launched in 1981: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star. The image shows specs for the xeriox 6085 which was released in 1985... So i really doubt this is reliable!
If we search for videogames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-century_video_games) we can have some that have graphics and are anterior, for example galaxian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0woSmNH4o) in 1979. I have stopped my research then, but there probably are previous pixel arts...
What am I supposed to see on the xerox star interface?
The overview article was cool.
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Spacewar wa vector art, not sprites.