
A junior high schooler displays his artistic ability by creating a jaw-dropping animation using nothing but Flipnote Studio for Nintendo 3DS.
Flipnote Studio 3D (or Ugoku Memocho/Moving Notepad in Japanese), a free application for Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS, gives users the ability to draw pictures with customizable pencil, brush, and eraser functions, and create their own little flip-book animations. Your animations can be cute, silly, or maybe, as is the case with this particular young artist’s work, downright amazing.
https://twitter.com/mmjol1107/status/671193706096029697The scene, from dark fantasy magna an anime series Tokyo Ghoul, was drawn by the 13-year-old little brother of @mmjol1107, who wrote of the piece: “My little bro’s drawing ability on Ugo-Memo is too good. I can’t compare…”
Since tweeting the video of her brother’s masterpiece on November 30, it has been re-tweeted more than 46,000 times, and has had commentors calling for someone to buy the kid a proper drawing tablet. That might not be such a bad idea!
Source and top image: Twitter/@mmjol1107 via Togech

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