DISNEY'S MAGIC ARTIST
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Access Route Ease of Use
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Disney's Magic Artist is more than just a fun way to draw and paint on your computer. It is the easiest way to create your very own works of art with some of Disney's most popular characters.
A- Before you start
Before you start Disney's Magic Artist, quit all other applications and deactivate the screen saver in order to optimise colour display and animations.
Insert the Magic Artist CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
You can access the Disney's Magic Artist online manual by clicking here.
B- Magic Artist studio areas
Magic artist reproduces the real environment of an artist's workshop through its three studio areas:
1- Magic Artist Desktop
This is the first studio you see when you start magic Artist. 12 basic tools and over 300 Disney Magic Stamps including characters fun props and backgrounds give you limitless creative possibilities.
2- The Gallery
The gallery allows you how to organise your drawings into customised sketchbooks and create exciting slideshows with music and video effects.
3- The Lesson area
In the lesson area, you will learn how to draw your favourite Disney characters. Real Disney artists will provide you with good advice to produce wonderful and original artwork.
This is the first studio area that you reach when you start Magic Artist.
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Click on a tool on the left drawer to use it . It will leave the drawer and reappear at the bottom of the desktop with different style options. Choose the style option you want to use, then click and drag the cursor over the canvas and... off you go!
A- Tool Style Options
Each tool of the drawer has special features to give you more flexibility when creating your work. The tools options are displayed in the bar next to the tool at the bottom of the desktop.
1- Size button
Click on one of the five different-sized circles to define the size of the effect made by the selected tool.
2- Pencil
Freehand Straight line
Curved line
3- Paintbrush
Oil paint Water colour
Fingerpaint
4- Marker
Regular round tip Flat tip
Elliptical tip
5- Spray can
Regular spray Spatter spray
3-D paint
6- Eraser
Hard eraser Soft eraser
Squeegee tool
7- Text tool
Select a font size Choose a font
Choose a style
8- Shapemaker tool
Choose a shape Outline Solid white fill
Solid colour fill
The shapemaker tools allows you to draw square and circles but also triangles and diamonds.
To toggle between square/circle and triangle/diamond templates, click on the shapemaker tool.
9- Imagespray tool
Choose from a bunch of funny images by clicking on the right and left scroll arrows and spray colourful images over the canvas.
10- Paintbucket
Solid fill Gradient fill
Pattern fill
Solid fill
Single, uniform colour fillGradient fill
blended colour fill. Click on the left or right scroll arrows to select the direction in which you want the colours to flow. You can select two colours to blend. The first one can be a colour from the Colour selection tool. To define the second colour, click on the small circle in the Gradient fill paint splotch and select the colour from the appearing Rainbow area.
Once you have selected the colours, click on the canvas. The canvas will turn grey. Move the mouse in any direction to set the path for the blend and click again.Pattern fill
Use the scroll arrows to choose from a series of fun pattern and click on the canvas to cover whole areas with the selected pattern.
11- Rope tool
Rectangle rope Freehand rope Blur
Emboss
Use the rope tool to move sections of your artwork to another location. Click on a rope and define the area you want to move on the canvas. A glowing line will surround the area. Click on the selected target area to move the selection.
You can also apply an embossed or blurred effect to an area by choosing the appropriate option.
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TWISTED TOOLS
The drawer tools can be very tricky: They can turn into wacky, twisted tools. Select a tool. As it appears at the bottom of the desktop, click on it again and... watch what happens! Now let your creativity explode.
To quit the twisted tools mode, click on the tool again.
B- Choosing colours
1- Available colours
Colour patches Rainbow area Millions of colours are available in Magic Artist to create your best artworks. After selecting a tool, you can select a colour from the colour patches on the drawer or enjoy even more colours in the rainbow area just below.
2- Matching a colour
If you wish to match a precise colour from your canvas, place the cursor over this colour area of the canvas, depress and maintain the <Ctrl> key and click the mouse. The selected colour automatically appears over the Rainbow area. Any tool used will now paint with this colour.
3- Adding a texture
The texture tab at the bottom right side of the canvas generates a texture in the drawings made with the pencil, crayon, chalk and watercolour tools.
Select a texture from the texture samples by clicking on the texture. The chosen texture will then appear in your picture as you draw, as if you were rubbing the actual tool over a patterned surface.
C- Disney's Magic Stamps
Toggle to the stamp drawer by clicking beneath the tools drawer and choose from your favourites characters, select one of the numerous fun backgrounds and colourful props to transform your pictures into real pieces of work.
1- Type of stamps
You can choose from three stamp categories:
Backgrounds
These stamps include complete backgrounds a well as simple pictures for the sky, the midground or the foreground of your picture.Characters
These stamps include six of the favourite Disney characters in hundreds of poses and costumes: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto.Props
A wide variety of props are available behind the three prop buttons.
2- Getting around with stamps
When you click on a stamp, several choices are displayed at the bottom of the desktop. Click on the right and left scroll arrows to access the complete stamp collection.
To place a stamp on the canvas, click on it drag it to the desired location. A small rectangle will appear and help you to position your stamp.
Double click on a stamp to quick-position it at the centre of the canvas.A stamp positioned on the canvas first appear in blueprint form. You can colour it, size it before you make it permanent.
Flip horizontal
Size Flip vertical Rotate When you select a blueprint, it becomes surrounded by a box with a small icon in each corner. These icons allow you to scale, rotate or flip your blueprint.
To move a blueprint, select it by clicking on it, then drag it to the desired position.
To remove a blueprint, select it, then hit the <Del> key or drag it off the canvas.
Now it is time to complete your stamps by colouring them. Click on one of the three choices on the painter's palette:
Black and White splotch
Colours your stamp in black and white.
Four colour splotch
Colours your stamp in classic cartoon colour.
Sparking paint splotch
This is the magical touch for your picture! Brush stroke by brush stoke, the stamp creation is drawn and painted with full colour and shading.
D-Saving and creating new artworks
To get a new fresh blank sheet on the canvas, click on the clip at the top of the canvas.
Your current artwork is automatically saved to the Gallery.
The Gallery is the place where all your work is automatically saved and where you can organise your drawing to create astonishing slide shows.
To enter The Gallery, click on the button at the bottom of your desktop.
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You will see all the images you have created in the Magic Artist Desktop in miniature size and gathered into a sketchbook. If you have created more than 9 images, they cannot be all displayed at one time in the Gallery. Use the blue arrows to scroll up or down to the images that are not currently displayed.
Each image can be titled. Just select an image and type a title in the space under it.
A- Working with sketchbooks
To save your collection of drawings into a sketchbook, click on the title area and type in the name you want to give to your sketchbook.
To create a new sketchbook, click on the New sketchbook icon. You can create up to 50 sketchbooks.
To open a sketchbook, just double click on it.
B- Organising your sketchbook
You can organise the order of your images in your sketchbook. To move an image within your sketchbook, select it and drag it to the desired location. You can use the same method to move an image from a sketchbook to another. Just drag the image to the desired sketchbook on the left of the screen.
Each sketchbook can contain up to 50 images.
To get rid of unwanted images, drag them to the dustbin. They will remain in the dustbin until you click on the Rubbish Truck to empty the dustbin. This allows you to retrieve images before they are completely deleted. To get an image out of the dustbin, click on the dustbin. It will spill out the last three images you dragged in.
NOTE
The dustbin can contain up to 3 images at a time. If you drag more than three images to the dustbin, the oldest ones will be permanently deleted.
C- Editing your pictures in The Gallery.
Double click on the image you want to edit. It will automatically appear into the Magic Artist Desktop. Make all the necessary changes and finally, click on the button at the bottom of the desktop. The modified image appears back in The Gallery.
D- Printing your pictures
You can directly print an image from The Gallery: select it and click on the print button
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Export your work to a floppy disk so that your family and friends can enjoy your best images on their own computer. To export an image, insert a blank floppy disk into the floppy drive, select the image you want to export and click on the disk button on the viewer panel.
E- Making your own slide show
Combine your sketchbook artwork with music and transition effects to create amazing musical slideshows.
Click on the Open Viewer Area to reveal the Viewer panel:
- Music selection
- Transition effect selection
- Exposure time
- Music prelist
- Loop slide show
- Play slide show
- Export pictures
You can add the three following elements to each image of the sketchbook:
- Music
Select from the pop-up menu the type of music you want. Click on the red music note to hear your music selection before you link it to the image.- Transition
Choose the video transition effect you want between the selected image and the next one.- Exposure time
Select how many seconds you want the image to stay on the screen.Finally, click on the Play button to enjoy your slide show.
Click on the Loop button to loop back your slide show to the beginning and replay it.
Watch and listen real Disney Artists share their sketching secrets to draw Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto with fun instructions and step-by-step demonstrations.
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To enter the Lesson area, move the cursor to the right edge of the Magic Artist Desktop. Just click when the cursor changes to a white arrow.
A- Watch the artists at work
Click on one of the model sheets on the right side. The sheet will open onto the art table. A brief slideshow will tell you the history of the character.
After this short introduction, you will see the character's basic body part cluster on both sides of the model sheet. Click on each step, beginning from the top left corner for best results.
In the centre of the model sheet, watch how each body part is drawn, line by line, and listen for instructions and tips as you might want to do it yourself...
B- The slider bar
Once a body part has been drawn, click anywhere on the centre of the screen to make it animated. A slider bar appears at the bottom of the model.
It tracks the poses in the animated sequence. Click and drag the button on the slider bar to view each pose separately.
C- Now, draw it yourself!
Try out your new drawing skills with the two fun ways of drawing:
- Follow the step-by-step lessons with pencil and paper; or
- Use the tracing paper on screen.
To place the tracing paper over the model sheet, double-click on the bulletin board under the character model sheets.
Choose a size for your pencil and... start tracing!
To erase, click on the pencil. It turns to an eraser. Rub the cursor over the lines you want to delete. Click on the pencil again to return it and resume tracing.
To undo your last pencil stroke, click on the red Undo button
Click on the clip at the top of the canvas to make a new start on a new fresh piece of tracing paper. Your previous work will be automatically deleted.
D- Printing and saving
To print you tracings, click on the Print button
Disney's Magic Artist only prints your tracings. Step-by-step drawings and animations cannot be printed.To save your tracings, drag your tracing paper sheet to the bulletin board. If you exit Disney's MAgic Artist with a tracing on the model sheet area, it will not be saved . Move them to the canvas on the Magic Artist Desktop to save them.
E- Customise your tracings!
Move your tracings to the Magic Artist Desktop and add colours, texture... and more!.
First, go back to the Magic Artist Desktop: move the cursor to the left edge of the Lesson area. Just click when the cursor changes to a white arrow.
In the Magic Artist Desktop, you will see part of the bulletin board sticking out of the lesson area on the right side of the screen. Click and drag the sheet up onto the canvas over the work that you have created on the Magic Artist desktop or on a new blank canvas.
Remember: the tracing paper is transparent. So, whatever is behind it remains visible.
5/7- EXITING DISNEY'S MAGIC ARTIST
Your can exit the program at any time from any of the three studio areas. Just click on the light bulb at the top of the working area.
All your artwork and sketchbooks of the Magic Artist Desktop and of The Gallery will automatically be saved.
Parents can access this mode from anywhere within the program by pressing <Ctrl>+<Space Bar> simultaneously.
In parental mode, you can access the menu bar and control several program functions such as printing or autosave.
The parents' help file is available from Windows start menu:
Start Ø Programs Ø Kid's World Ø Extra Ø Disney's Magic Artist Ø Disney's Magic Artist Parents' Help File
Visit the Disney's Magic Artist web site at:
http://www.disney.com/DisneyInteractive/MagicArtist/index.html
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