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Kuhang

Art Academy: Atelier the fully fledged version of Art Academy for Wii U nears it's release. It will be released as retail and on eshop. Art Academy: Atelier's file size is going to be 5023 MB.

Who's up for some creativity?

Discuss everything that is Art Academy: Atelier here

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cookiex

"Art Academy: Atelier's file size is going to be 5023 MB."

That's... pretty big.

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conman2012

Considering this. Might be good to do some drawing on the gamepad with my kid.

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CaviarMeths

Wow, what's up with the file size? Most of Nintendo's 1st party games aren't that big.

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CanisWolfred

It's nice that they drop a couple dollars off the price for those who bought Sketchpad, but I'm fairly certain I spent more than $4 on that software...

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jariw

CaviarMeths wrote:

Wow, what's up with the file size? Most of Nintendo's 1st party games aren't that big.

EAD games are always better at file size and compression.

jariw

Eel

So... Wasn't sketchpad gonna be updated or something?

Anyway, the extra file size could come from big HD images and video.

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jariw

Does anyone know if there's a retail version of Art Academy in Europe? I thought it was only NoA who made it eShop-only, but I can't find it for preorders in my usual stores. And it's released soon!

jariw

Kuhang

jariw wrote:

Does anyone know if there's a retail version of Art Academy in Europe? I thought it was only NoA who made it eShop-only, but I can't find it for preorders in my usual stores. And it's released soon!

Yes the retail version of Art Academy is available in europe thankfully. I think u can find it in Aamazon last I checked or any major store but I'm not sure if they're taking any pre-orders.

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Taya

I like how easily you can upload your drawings on Youtube. Here's my tutorial drawing:

Not sure if Youtube embeds on this forum....

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cwong15

It looks pretty good so far. I tried it yesterday and tried the first lesson: a tomato on pastels. Of course, it was the first day for most people, so when I looked at the Miiverse uploads screen all I saw was a sea of tomatoes. I decided not to add yet another tomato to the lot.

I have a question: wasn't the game advertised to have 30 lessons? The beginner's, advanced and tools lessons together add up to just 16. Anybody know what happened to the rest? Apologies for asking this again: I asked this question on the eShop forum and was redirected here. Thanks a bunch!

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cwong15

Sorry, my mistake, I misread the menus. I was counting pages, not lessons, in the lesson "book". Each page could have more than one lesson. 1 intro, 12 beginner's, 12 advanced and 5 tools lessons add up to 30. Nice job on the bonsai tree. Thanks.

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cwong15

Well, your lilies look a whole lot better than mine. Charcoal is not my thing, I guess.

I'm glad the gamepad comes with a stylus. There was some discussion a while ago questioning whether we needed a stylus with the Wii U, but I think Art Academy proves that it can come useful. Unfortunately, I found it a little too small for my hand. I dropped by Staples to look for an alternative stylus, but was dismayed to find only fat, blunt ones. It's a side effect of capacitive touchscreens dominating the market: most such touchscreens can't use an accurate stylus. I know Nintendo sells a pen-size stylus with their screen protector kit, but it looked cheap. I ended up searching for a Parker pen stylus refill on ebay. This is like a ball pen refill, but with a plastic tip and no ink. This transformed my pen into a nice, comfortable Gamepad stylus.

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baba_944

Can this game teach me how to draw? I'm terrible at drawing.

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Taya

It can! Art Academy is not just a drawing program; it has lessons from beginner to advanced. The main lessons guide you step-by-step (mini-lessons are tougher since they don't hold your hand as much) and Vince the instructor gives you all sorts of advice on how to transition to drawing/painting in real life.

Here is the pastel tool lesson, Lesson 3 (strawberry), and lesson 3 mini-lesson (lemon):

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And the youtube videos (of course)

Taya

Sparx

been wondering, are the lessons possible using off tv play?

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cwong15

I suspect off TV play would be tricky for lessons. Most of the action is indeed shown on the Gamepad. But when you are actually doing the drawing/sketching, the art subject is displayed on the TV. For example, you would be doing a charcoal sketch of a pair of lilies on the Gamepad while using the full color photo of the lilies on the TV as a guide. You can switch the image on the TV, but I did not see any option to show the TV reference image on the Gamepad.

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