Colors! 3D for Nintendo 3DS

About Colors! 3D for Nintendo 3DS

Colors! 3D is a painting application that turns the Nintendo 3DS into a small but surprisingly capable art studio. Its big idea is depth: you paint across five separate layers, and the system shows your strokes at different depths, so a simple sketch gains a real sense of space when viewed in 3D. Artists around the world used it to create everything from quick doodles to finished pieces, and an online gallery let everyone share work and watch how each painting was made, stroke by stroke.

The tools focus on doing a few things well. Pressure style brush control, layers, an eraser and simple color picking keep the process close to drawing on paper, while the playback feature lets you study the steps behind any gallery painting. Painting together with a friend locally adds a social twist, and exporting your work means finished pieces can live beyond the handheld. For beginners it is a friendly first step into digital art, and for experienced artists it became a beloved pocket sketchbook for ideas on the move.

Genre	Art
Publisher	Collecting Smiles
Platform	Nintendo 3DS
Release	2012
Available on	Physical copies for Nintendo 3DS

Creative tools found a real audience on this system, and this one led the pack. The Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS closed in March 2023, so new digital purchases are no longer possible. Physical copies are uncommon, so most owners today are those who bought it during the store years. If you did buy it digitally before the closure, you can still access their purchased games and applications on your system, and your pocket studio remains open for business.

A tiny studio that produced genuinely big art.

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What's inside

• Paint across five layers for real 3D depth
• Watch playbacks of how gallery paintings were made
• Simple brushes that feel close to paper
• Paint together with a friend in local sessions
• Share finished work through the online gallery

Best for

Great for artists of every level who want a pocket sketchbook with a clever 3D twist.