Following the Zelda contest, Nintendo conducted an Art Academy: Sketch Pad contest for Animal Crossing: New Leaf on Miiverse. The winners have been chose, and the pieces you see below were all created within the Art Academy app. The the was to cover one of the four seasons in Animal Crossing.
Co-director for Animal Crossing: New Leaf Aya Kyogoku helped pick out the winners, which were simply spread over the seasons rather than ranked. Since Spring is here(ish), though, let’s start off with those first.
 
 
Summer in Japan means only one thing: The Beach and catching various kinds of insects:
 
 
Autumn’s styles below show off some of the complexities you can pull off in Art Academy: Sketch Pad. Personally, I was blown away by the Halloween shot below:
 
 
Finally, Winter has an adorable collection of shots that make you feel warm inside even when it’s cold outside:
 
 
Of course, because there’s a huge volume of entries from all over the world, a few more choices were selected as special mentions. You can see some of them below, and the full set over here.
 
 
