Nintendo is giving us all a treat.

Flipnote Studio, a free download application for the DSi is currently available (again, for free) from the Nintendo DSi Shop. This application gives users the ability to create quick simple animations, or highly detailed cartoons in a similar fashion to old school notepad flipping.

Utilizing a set of simple (yet extremely useful) tools anyone, and I mean anyone, can create an animation of their own with ease. Amateur animators can then register on Hatena’s website, upload their animations, and even download other users animations and then edit them to their own taste. Flipnote animations may also be shared through the DSi’s local wireless feature as well as saved onto a SD card.

I had a chance to try out Flipnote at Nintendo’s E3 of the North and let me tell you, even with zero artistic ability and little interest in making a cartoon when I could be playing the new Super Mario Brothers Wii, I still had a blast with Flipnote and couldn’t put it down for a good 20 minutes while I finished my animation depicting a worm sliding across the screen.

Flipnote. For the DSi. Available now. Free.

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