After the initial systems, computer animation became part of the main stream animation industry.
Some of the film highlights are:
- 1979 NYIT: TWEEN, Ed Catmull; PAINT Alvy Ray Smith, SOFTCEL Garland Stern
- 1980 Turner Whitted: The Compleat Angler
- 1981 Nelson Max : Carla's Island
- 1982 MAGI, Robert Abel: Tron
- 1984 Lucasfilm: The Adventures of Andre and Wally B
- 1985 Industrial Light and Magic: Young Sherlock Holmes (6 months for 30 seconds of output)
- 1986 Pixar: Luxor Jnr
- 1987 Pixar: Red's Dream
- 1988 Pixar: Tin Toy
- 1991 ILM: Terminator 2
- 1992: Lawnmower Man
- 2005 Pixar: One Man Band
By 1995, the World Wide Web had become well established and there was a need for computer graphics and computer animation to be available on the web. The solution was Scalable Vector Graphics and its Declaractive Animation commands.