Pokémon Art Academy Competition Winners Announced
Winning Illustrations to Be Made into Custom Pokémon TCG Cards*
BELLEVUE, Wash.—June 08, 2015—The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo of America Inc. have revealed the North American winners of the international Pokémon Art Academy Competition. After accepting thousands of entries that were created using the Pokémon Art Academy video game, available exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, the panel of judges have chosen six of their favorite illustrations.
The winners in the Dress-Up Pikachu category:
- By Xime:
- By Ashley:
- By Me!:
The winners in the Your Favorite Pokémon category:
- By Mireil (Primal Kyogre):
- By Gosha (Tangrowth):
- By Gabi (Chespin):
Congratulations to these amazing artists who will each receive 100 cards featuring their winning illustration!*
Pokémon Art Academy offers all aspiring Pokémon artists 40 lessons in how to paint, sketch, and draw popular Pokémon. Students of Pokémon Art Academy will pick up illustration skills that they can transfer onto real canvas, and they may share their digital masterpieces with the world.
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- Visit www.pokemon.com
- Like the official Pokémon Facebook page at Facebook.com/Pokemon
- Follow @Pokemon on Twitter
- Check out the official Pokémon YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/pokemon
*The winners' cards will not be made available for sale in regular Pokémon TCG products nor will they be usable in officially sanctioned Play! Pokémon organized play events.
About Pokémon
The Pokémon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996, and today is one of the most popular children's entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visit www.pokemon.com.
About Nintendo
The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii U™ and Wii™ home consoles, Nintendo 3DS™ and 2DS, and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.3 billion video games and more than 680 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL™, Nintendo 2DS™, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™, and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company's website at http://www.nintendo.com.
