Make Art on Your Mega Drive! Art Alive Review for the Sega Mega Drive

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Art Alive! (1991)
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I've been working on my very own art exhibition using Art Alive! What started as a joke when I first recorded this episode in 2021 turned into a year long project to develop a series of artworks, and make this much longer, more detailed review of the obsolete drawing programme for the Sega Mega Drive.

You can check out 'As Seen on TV' and download a PDF of the art book over on the Leftover Culture Review website: http://www.leftoverculturereview.com/as-seen-on-tv-sega-art-alive-digital-exhibition/

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Produced in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in the United States), Art Alive! is a program that lets you create your own artwork on the system. Art Alive! is limited by the hardware only allowing you to use a palette of 16 colours, there's no layers, no pen-tool for creating bezier lines and it only supports the Sega Control Pad. There's no support for additional accessories, such as the Sega Mouse (which was released in 1993).

The artwork cannot be saved either. The instruction manual recommends using a VCR to record your work. This limitation in particular meant that each artwork I produced was done alla prima (completed in one session) and took about an hour. Once you turn off the system, the piece is deleted.

Art Alive! comes bundled with a selection of templates so you can start painting straight away as well as a range of stickers you can paste into your scenes. There's also an animation tool that lets you draw frame-by-frame or paint on an existing animation.

The software was developed by Jay Obernolte from Farsight Technologies and Chris Ziomkowski. The game credits state it was developed by Western Technologies.

A spiritual successor , Wacky Worlds, was developed in 1994 by Head Games with more resources. Instead of focusing on a painting tool, Wacky World embraced the ability to place stickers to create scenes.



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