Game Art Timeline

By bnkilloy
  • Aaron Garbut starts working at Rockstar North

    Aaron Garbut starts working at Rockstar North

    Art director Aaron Garbut gets hired at Rockstar North to work on projects like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption
  • September 11th Attacks

    September 11th Attacks

    4 planes are hijacked by Al Qaeda Terrorists on the morning of September 11th. 2 of them are flown into The Twin Towers in NYC killing 2,996 people and injuring 6,000+, one was flown into the Pentagon and the other is brought down in a field by heroic actions taken by its passengers
  • War On Terror started

    War On Terror started

    In response to the September 11th attacks the USA went to war with Al Qaeda and other Militant organizations.
  • Gilles Beloeil starts career at 4 Elements Studios in Montreal

    Gilles Beloeil starts career at 4 Elements Studios in Montreal

    He started his career working on many TV projects, and commercials
  • US-led invasion of Iraq begins

    US-led invasion of Iraq begins

    Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
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    Tony Ianiro works at Pandemic Studios

    Tony works at Pandemic Studios on a number of projects such as Mercenaries 2, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, Full Spectrum Warrior, etc.
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    Adam Adamowicz is hired as a concept artist at Bethesda Softworks

    He was the only concept artist to work on Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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    Dave Auclair works at Turbine Inc

    Works creating Characters for Dungeons and Dragons Online
  • Dave Auclair starts working at Electronic Arts

    Dave Auclair starts working at Electronic Arts

    Creates characters for Madden and NCAA games
  • Gilles Beloeil starts working at Ubisoft

    Gilles Beloeil starts working at Ubisoft

    Gilles starts working at Ubisoft as a concept artist and digital matte painter.
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    Gilles works on Assassins Creed Games

    The first Assassins Creed game was released in 2007, and the latest was released in 2014.
  • ZBrush 4 was released

    ZBrush 4 was released

    new update for Zbrush was released
  • Tony Ianiro starts working on The Sims 4

    Tony Ianiro starts working on The Sims 4

    He created full environment paintings using Maya and Photoshop. He also created stylized concept art of houses (exterior and interior walls, floors and portals designs), world objects, interior objects and vehicles for in house and outsourcing.
  • Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is released

    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is released

    Highly anticipated game Skyrim is released
  • Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz dies due to complications from Lung Cancer

    Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz dies due to complications from Lung Cancer

    Adam Adamowicz worked on extremely popular games. As of June 2013 more than 20 million copies of Skyrim have been sold.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing occurs

    Boston Marathon Bombing occurs

    Two pressure cooker style bombs exploded during a marathon in Boston killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others. This led to a manhunt in Mass. for suspects
  • Adobe releases Creative Cloud

    Adobe releases Creative Cloud

  • Grand Theft Auto: V is released

    Grand Theft Auto: V is released

    Aaron Garbut and the team at Rockstar North release GTA5
  • PS4 is released!

    PS4 is released!

    PS4 is released. Benefits the gaming community with better graphics and next gen processors and hard drives
  • Madden 15 release

    Madden 15 release

    Dave Auclair and the team at Electronic Arts release the highly anticipated Madden15
  • Sims 4 is released on PC

    Sims 4 is released on PC

    New and improved Sims game is released for PC only.