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Pokemon Art Academy
This week's topic is a new release in the Art Academy series! Pokemon: Art Academy is a special spin-off that has already been released in several regions, and is making its way to North America this month. The series is all about helping new artists and amateurs learn the basic skills of an artist. Pokemon: Art Academy has a few special features than just name recognition.
For those new to the Art Academy series, it contains several lessons designed to help newcomers learn the basics of drawing. One feature, available in recent installments, is being able to take pictures and import them for use as reference material in free draw mode. This makes it so that while the game offers a small amount of lessons, one can continue to learn while using their own topics as a base.
The largest difference between Pokemon: Art Academy and its predecessors is (of course) being able able to draw Pokemon instead of more typical Art Academy drawings. This means aspiring artists can learn about Animal Anatomy, something that hasn’t been covered much in Art Academy titles past.
This installment of Art Academy is known for having a wide variety of artistic styles and degrees of difficulty. Simplistic shapes to incredibly complex animal anatomy is covered; both complete newcomers and fledgling freelancers will find a challenge here.
Features
Not only is Pokemon Art Academy a nice addition to the on-going Art Academy series, but the game also features some of the following features exclusive to this installment;
Mega Evolution Pokemon - When all of the Normal, Apprentice, and Graduate classes are done, three bonus lessons unlock for Mega Evolved Pokemon.
TCG Transfer - The art created is able to be transferred to a Pokemon Trading Card Game border upon completion with the option to add a background image – These will be able to be printed out and used in your very own TCG deck!
Miiverse Functionality / Art Contests – Pokemon Art Academy will be having contests over Miiverse! Internet sharers will be able to put Miiverse functionality to use and post up your drawings.
Downloadable Content - Are the existing Pokemon available to draw not satisfying enough to quench your artistic appetite? Downloadable content will be available as special promotions over Nintendo Network! Some of these will only available for a limeted time. Groudon and Kyogre have already been made available in other regions, but they're assumed to come back for the U.S. release date. For any who currently have a copy in Australia and New Zealand, a Shiny Mega Gengar reference image is available for download right now.
About the Team
Pokemon Art Academy is being developed by Headstrong games. This developer has been the driving force behind the Battalion Wars series, the rest of Art Academy, and Rabbids Rumble. Check out their development history here. The studio is located in London, England and is owned by Kuju Entertainment.
Pokemon Art Academy is already available in all regions except North America, and will be coming to North America in both digital download and physical format for $29.99 on October 24th, 2014!
Will you be doing some art? Have you played an entry in the Art Academy series before? Still too busy with Smash Bros. for 3DS? Let us know in the comments below!
Thethirdkoopa is a Game Producer, Game Collector, Musician, Gamer, and Smash Fanatic at heart. He's a friendly guy too. Go talk to him on Twitter! @Thirdkoopa
This week's topic is a new release in the Art Academy series! Pokemon: Art Academy is a special spin-off that has already been released in several regions, and is making its way to North America this month. The series is all about helping new artists and amateurs learn the basic skills of an artist. Pokemon: Art Academy has a few special features than just name recognition.
For those new to the Art Academy series, it contains several lessons designed to help newcomers learn the basics of drawing. One feature, available in recent installments, is being able to take pictures and import them for use as reference material in free draw mode. This makes it so that while the game offers a small amount of lessons, one can continue to learn while using their own topics as a base.
The largest difference between Pokemon: Art Academy and its predecessors is (of course) being able able to draw Pokemon instead of more typical Art Academy drawings. This means aspiring artists can learn about Animal Anatomy, something that hasn’t been covered much in Art Academy titles past.
This installment of Art Academy is known for having a wide variety of artistic styles and degrees of difficulty. Simplistic shapes to incredibly complex animal anatomy is covered; both complete newcomers and fledgling freelancers will find a challenge here.
Features
Not only is Pokemon Art Academy a nice addition to the on-going Art Academy series, but the game also features some of the following features exclusive to this installment;
Mega Evolution Pokemon - When all of the Normal, Apprentice, and Graduate classes are done, three bonus lessons unlock for Mega Evolved Pokemon.
TCG Transfer - The art created is able to be transferred to a Pokemon Trading Card Game border upon completion with the option to add a background image – These will be able to be printed out and used in your very own TCG deck!
Miiverse Functionality / Art Contests – Pokemon Art Academy will be having contests over Miiverse! Internet sharers will be able to put Miiverse functionality to use and post up your drawings.
Downloadable Content - Are the existing Pokemon available to draw not satisfying enough to quench your artistic appetite? Downloadable content will be available as special promotions over Nintendo Network! Some of these will only available for a limeted time. Groudon and Kyogre have already been made available in other regions, but they're assumed to come back for the U.S. release date. For any who currently have a copy in Australia and New Zealand, a Shiny Mega Gengar reference image is available for download right now.
About the Team
Pokemon Art Academy is being developed by Headstrong games. This developer has been the driving force behind the Battalion Wars series, the rest of Art Academy, and Rabbids Rumble. Check out their development history here. The studio is located in London, England and is owned by Kuju Entertainment.
Pokemon Art Academy is already available in all regions except North America, and will be coming to North America in both digital download and physical format for $29.99 on October 24th, 2014!
Will you be doing some art? Have you played an entry in the Art Academy series before? Still too busy with Smash Bros. for 3DS? Let us know in the comments below!
Thethirdkoopa is a Game Producer, Game Collector, Musician, Gamer, and Smash Fanatic at heart. He's a friendly guy too. Go talk to him on Twitter! @Thirdkoopa
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