Product Description
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Draw, Paint, Create Step-by-step lessons for everyone! Learn to
create art on the DS. Art Academy is a fun, interactive training
program that teaches real-world painting and drawing techniques,
much as you would learn in an art class. Lessons take you from
basic sketching techniques with pencils to painting with brushes,
color mixing and water dilution—all with a realistic feel and
producing realistic results that can be applied to real-life
materials outside of the Nintendo DS environment. Simple,
easy-to-understand instruction. An in-game tutor walks you
through each lesson step-by-step, giving examples, providing
demonstrations, and offering helpful tips. Each Lesson gradually
builds off the previous one, and allowing players to advance at
their own pace. Art on the Go! Inspiration can appear anywhere
–in the park, at a bus stop, even on an airplane. With Art
Academy software’s free paint mode, your personal art studio is
no farther than your pocket, ready to assist in creating your
latest masterpiece.
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Art Academy is an educational art game for Nintendo DS and DSi
that is designed to teach the basics of painting, drawing,
sketching, color theory and beyond. An extension of the Art
Academy game series, previously available only to DSi users via
Nintendo's wireless download DSiWare functionality, this
cartridge based software for DS and DSi incorporates all 20
lessons from the previous two releases as well as 10 new lessons.
The game features multiple modes, including one led by an in-game
art tutor, as well as Free Paint mode that allows you to let your
creativity flow freely. Additional features include: a wide
variety of pencil and brush types, an in-game painter's color
palette, the ability to save and frame finished work, a demo
lesson that can be wirelessly shared with other DS or DSi owners
and special DSi camera functionality.
Learn to Draw and Paint with Your DS or DSi
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Have you ever had an interest in art or wanted to learn how to
draw and paint? Well now you can explore your creative side,
anytime, anywhere with the Art Academy software, a fun,
interactive, and portable training software for the Nintendo DS
and DSi systems that will teach you how to draw and paint, much
as you would learn in an art class.
Learn the fundamentals of art right on your DS or DSi.
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Gameplay
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Art Academy offers simple, easy to understand art lessons that
you can take at your own pace. You even have the ability to fast
forward or rewind a step if you would like to view it again.
Vince is your in-game art tutor and he will guide you through
each new lesson, gradually introducing new concepts to you. Each
new lesson builds upon concepts that you learned in previous
lessons, complete with step by step examples. The software takes
advantage of the Touch Screen on the Nintendo DS. Simply use the
stylus like a real pencil or paint brush when creating a piece of
art. The pencils, paintbrushes, color mixing, and paint dilution
effects produce realistic results, and feel very natural. All of
the skills learned in Art Academy can be applied to real-life
artist's materials outside of the Nintendo DS environment. So
what are you waiting for? There is no time like the present to
start learning how to draw and paint with Art Academy.
Game Features
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* Free Paint Mode allows the player to create works of art when
ever and where ever they are inspired.
* There are different types of pencil and brush types for the
player to choose from when creating their art. This gives the
player a lot of creative freedom when painting and drawing.
* Paints are easily mixed on a painter’s pallet to get the
desired colors. They can also be diluted with water to adjust the
color saturation. The player can even choose how much paint is on
the brush at a given time.
* The Gallery is an area where the player can frame and save all
of the artwork they create. Gallery Images can be displayed in a
slide show or viewed one at a time.
* Art Academy includes all 10 of the lessons and tools from both
Art Academy: First Semester and Art Academy: Second Semester,
which were previously only available as Nintendo DSiWare
downloads. Plus there are 10 Mini Lessons and over 80 motifs that
the player can choose from to use as reference material when
creating their art.
* When playing Art Academy on the Nintendo DSi system, the player
has the added feature of using the built-in cameras to create
reference material. The player can take a photo and save it into
the gallery and then use it in Free Paint Mode.
* The player can send the demo lesson via the local wireless
connection of their Nintendo DS to another Nintendo DS to be
tried by another player.
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- Features -.
- Free Paint Mode allows you to create works of art when ever and where ever you are inspired.
- There are different types of Pencil and Brush types for you to choose from when creating your art; this gives you more creative freedom when painting and drawing.
- Paints are easily mixed on a painter's pallet to get the desired colors; they can also be diluted with water to adjust the color saturation; you can even choose how much paint is on the brush at a given time.
- The Gallery is an area where the you can frame and save all of the artwork you create; Gallery Images can be displayed in a slide show or viewed one at a time.