VITO SketchArtist

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Multilingual: English, German, Russian, Spanish

SketchArtist is a drawing application based on character description method used by police and security services. The program features meccano type interface, over 1'000 facial features are available for use. Graphic sources are taken from a police database utilized in real-life crime detection.

Partly a game, partly a serious application, SketchArtist provides numerous ways of use in everyday life. It allows creating amazing collages of your friends, sharing home-made "faces" of celebrities, exchanging funny images of a speaker with your colleagues while attending some boring conference.

Created images can be exported to .bmp and used in third party applications including address books and for your mobile phone attachments. SketchArtist helps to avoid verbal misunderstanding when you try to describe somebody's appearance: you simply sketch a face!

Sketching is really easy, it's like putting parts in a meccano!

choose a facial feature from menu Select
(most elements are available for male/female)

use thumbnail bar to scroll through the list of available items and choose one of them

repeat steps to add more facial elements

use stylus or keypad to move items on the screen (applied to active element)

use sliders at the right bottom corner to stretch/shrink items vertically or horizontally

use the tool bar at the bottom for zooming, full-screen preview, one-step undo/redo and delete

Fast, flawless and easy-to-use!

SketchArtist works as a meccano, it does not require any special training and is simple to use even for children. From a number of facial features you have to choose one and manage it with stylus or keypad. The features can be moved, streched and tightened in various ways which makes no limits to your fantasy!

Includes over 1000 facial features!

This is a bulk of graphic elements enough to create almost any real-life human face. The graphic database includes items both for male and female faces such as haircuts, eyes, noses and more, and some additional elements such as moustaches, beards and glasses. All graphics has been taken from Russian police database utilized in real-life crime detection.

Image export

Drawings made with SketchArtist are saved in *.face format and can be opened for further edition. All images can be exported into *.bmp files supported by the majority of graphic editors/viewers and PIM applications. This provides great options for image use:

exchange drawings with your friends and create fun postcards;

attach images to your contacts or use them at your mobile phone.

Latest Reviews

A Competent App: by a reviewer from Colorado
on Jul 19, 2006; Depending on how one views the usefulness of this app, one might describe it well within a range between "cute" to "cool". From a well stocked palette of facial features, the user selects a close approximation of say, a nose, which can then be stretched or contracted individually or collectively with other features. There is sufficient flexibility here to arrive at an acceptable, and sometimes startlingly accurate likeness. The tools for manipulating the features are slightly laggy on my handheld, but not enough to be disturbing. Noticably lacking is a prompt to save ones work before closing the app. Updating a comment from a previous reviewer, I found no evidence of spyware in this app, neither during trial nor after registration.
A fun little game, but don't let the thorns prick you: by Jon P. from Shakopee, MN
on Jul 17, 2004; The game itself is very fun, almost enough so that I'd consider paying for the full version. Almost. The cons were enough, however, to prompt me to attempt to uninstall it. In my ignorance I had failed to realize that adware had reached the PDA level, but this game enlightened me. Even with the game shut down, I continued to get pop-up screens promoting other VITO Technology products. That was enough. Then came the un-installation. The program installs in two seperate parts. The first time I tried to uninstall, I did the wrong half first. After re-installing that half, I managed to fully uninstall the program. Or did I? The "Remove Programs" box doesn't list it anymore, but a 165k Sketchartist.exe file still exists in a folder called VITOTechnology. The file is undeletable because the file "may be in use." So, in conclusion, I found that it wasn't worth the trouble.
Great way to remember faces: by a reviewer from Orlando, FL
on Nov 2, 2003; This program is great fun. It is intuitive and simple to use. It is great for drawing co-workers, but I've found it has really helped me to notice the features of people. Typically, I've had trouble matching names with faces. This program, surprisingly, has helped me notice features of those "non-descript" people that I could never remember before. I know notice the subtle differences between droopy eyes and old eyes.

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Download Details

File Information: 49 sec download @ 300Kb/s; 1.8MB Installed; Updated 8/27/2008
Features: Color application
Minimum Requirements: MIPS; ARM or XScale based Pocket PC; OS version 2000; 2002 or 2003