Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe

by Disney

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005LBW1
• Item model number: 2211301
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,069 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you have a young graphic artist in the house, odds are that you have already seen a range of paint programs for children. All offering a collection of templates for art projects, clip art to use with the templates, and some basic drawing tools for users who wish to go freestyle, these programs' primary differences have been in their look and user friendliness... at least until now.

Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe is one of a new generation of programs designed for users who enjoy creating art with computer assistance. In addition to the standard-issue graphic tools, this package makes artwork into a game, with moving animations, sound effects, and some very thoughtful design features. While earlier graphics programs often resembled scaled-down versions of adult packages, this one is entirely bent on entertaining children and encouraging sprees of creative electronic drawing. Its kit is full of brightly colored, genuinely wacky tools, including robots that run around the screen drawing patterns on your page and a sprayer that drops animations into the page. Imagine watching cookies bake onscreen, spreading a line of crawling spiders across a page, or planting roses along the bottom of the screen. Just watching these images mutate to their finalized form is delightful--and they come with topnotch sound effects and a good dollop of humor, too.

Another area where older graphics programs broke down was in their reusability factor. Once a child had seen and used all of a package's available images, it was often time to move on to the next contender. However, Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe offers regular updates. Users can download new graphics and animations from the program's Web site, including packages designed particularly for a coming holiday or event.

For users uninterested in using prepackaged art, Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe also offers a full set of tools to allow kids to import pictures of themselves and their friends, and then to decorate, alter, and distort them to their heart's content. Whether they want to build static scenes with Disney characters, construct animated tableaus, or digitally bend an existing favorite photograph, this is a graphics program certain to please artistically bent kids and their parents through project after project. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

The interactive art studio that's a toolbox full of fun! Amazing effects and wacky new tools give everyone the power to create their own mind-blowing art. Bring your art to life - just like magic!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Program / Have to play with Administrator Account, August 30, 2004

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Scott - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Terrific program with tons of stuff to play with. My kids love it. Each tool can be clicked to bring up another alternate tool which provides even more cool art abilities. This is one of the best programs I have ever seen. Your kids will really love it.

My only gripe is the program can not be played under Windows XP with "limited" account types. I don't want to give my 3 and 4 year olds administrator rights just to play one game. So they have to play under my administrator account which kind of defeats the purpose of having separate user accounts.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best !, November 6, 2001

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A 12-year old software user (Brooklyn,NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I thank my parents for getting me this. Theres so much things you can do. You can Paint, Create and Edit and so on. I wish my Parents would have got me this before. I love it. As a child I suggest you order this for your love ones.Now that Christmas is here.Thats why I gave the Magic artist Deluxe 5 stars. If you get this I know you will be satified.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Probably really great, but..., July 28, 2008

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Scott "Black Pearl" (Kaneohe, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Just received the CD ROM in the mail and opened it up to put in my disk drive and... it didn't work. Reason - because my computer is a Mac (Apple). On the product description it lists the many systems that it is compatible with including Macs (listed 2nd after Linux). Unfortunately this is not entirely true. I suppose if I install bootcamp and buy Windows Vista (or the like) I would be able to open the program.

Just a warning to Mac users about this problem. I have an older version that worked only on OS 9 classic but I don't have classic anymore. My little son was so disappointed when the program wouldn't work on our Mac computer. Still looking for a compatible version. Hope they come out with universal new version soon.