Digital art

Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. The term is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modifed by a computing process (such a computer program, microcontroler or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of a larger project.

Fields of digital art

Visual digital art falls into 5 main categories:

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Computer Generated

Artwork rendered from models created by the artist.

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• Computer-generated art

Illustration

Artwork created using, generally, vector-based tools.

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• Digital illustration

Photography/Cinematography Related

Artwork created through a camera which may then be manipulated.

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• Digital photography
• Movie Special effects
• Digital imaging
• Photo manipulations

Painting

Artwork created in similar fashion to non-digital paintings by means of software.

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• Digital painting

Game Related

Artwork that relates to computer games.

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• Video game design
• Artistic computer game modification
• Demoscene (A subculture that concentrates on making digital art.)
• Computer art scene (Another subculture with many parallels and ties to the Demoscene.)
• Pixel art
• Machinima

Other

Aside from visual digital art, there are also other forms of digital art.

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• Software art
• Electronic music
• Code poetry