This is a blog that I started to help people create art for their houses in the video game Animal Crossing by Nintendo. I am a professional artist who has created many paintings in the game. I started this blog because, while I was creating files for my own use, people would ask me questions about how to do it and I felt like it would be easier if they could just read about it here rather than ask me all the time.

Details on how to create art for Animal Crossing can be found at: http://www.luigi-madiq.com/howto.html

Hello! I’m Nook, the artist behind all of the art in Animal Crossing. I’ve been drawing since I was a young’un and even went to an art school for a few years. I am also a hardcore Nintendo fan, and when I heard that they were doing a new Animal Crossing game for the Nintendo Switch, I just had to take on the job!

When I was little, my brother used to complain that we didn’t have any cool games at our house, so he’d go next door to play with his friend. That’s why when he got too old for his Gameboy Color, he left it at my house so he could still play. When I saw the Gameboy Color for the first time, it changed everything for me! The graphics were so much more detailed and beautiful than anything else out there. The music was catchy, too! It felt like such a big deal whenever you got to play as a different character or make friends with some cranky villager: they would give you their picture so you could remember them by!

I thought it was so cool that my brother would leave his Gameboy Color at my house where I could play with it all the time. But then one day he came over crying, saying that

I’m a big fan of the Animal Crossing series and I recently started a blog where I share my art with the world and my love for Animal Crossing. I decided that I wanted to draw some fan art and share it on my blog so I reached out to Nintendo. The response was amazing!

I received several pieces of official concept art along with a very nice letter from Tom Wario, the Art Director at Nintendo.

The message from Mr. Wario was short, but it made me feel like Nintendo appreciates my love for the series and is looking forward to seeing my work.

Today I’m officially sharing some of my work on the blog in honor of going live! My hope is that this will be a fun experience for me and the readers. So come check out what I’ve got to offer!”

Animal Crossing: New Horizons seems to have a lot of potential art pieces. However, most of the items that catch your eye are usually rare. Thankfully, I am able to provide a list of items that are rare or less common than others.

This list is provided by my own knowledge and research on the game. Keep in mind that some articles may be missing as I have not collected them all yet. Also, some of the articles might be out of order due to adding them based off of how they look instead of their name.

Trophies are mostly ordered by how big they are and what games they come from. The only article that is out of order for this reason is the one with the Blue Falcon from F-Zero on it (as seen above.) Blue Falcon is being placed here because it appears in game before F-Zero and I want that article before those 3 articles after it (which are from F-Zero.)

Other articles such as chairs, umbrellas, etc…are ordered alphabetically.”

It’s hard to write about art without sounding pretentious. I’ve tried to write this entry in an accessible way, but because it came from my head instead of from a general sense of what people want or expect, I worried it might sound abstract and weird.

So, I decided to illustrate it. I spent all day yesterday making graphics that illustrate what I’m trying to say in this entry. I think they will help the ideas come across more clearly, so please allow me to show them off before getting back on topic.

A lot of the time when you’re creating art for games, you’re working alone and your work ends up on the cutting room floor. You’ve put hundreds of hours into it and then your work is gone forever! It’s like a death in the family. It hurts; so you want to make sure that if something does get cut, it was cut for a good reason, not just arbitrary or sloppy decision-making. But then how do you know if your cutwork was any good? And if you don’t believe your own work is any good, how can you go on trying?