How to Use the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Tour Creator Web Service
In this article, you'll learn how to use the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Tour Creator to create custom digital posters and videos about your island that you can share with others outside the game.
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Tour Creator is a web service available to Animal Crossing: New Horizons players with a Nintendo Account. An app is not required, but the service will only work when you access the website on a smartphone or smart device.
Note
- A Nintendo Account is required to use the Island Tour Creator service.
- Only unedited screenshots and videos of Animal Crossing: New Horizons captured directly on a Nintendo Switch console can be used.
- It is possible that the service may not recognise a valid screenshot or video as being from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In this case, please use a different screenshot or video.
- To use content from Twitter, you must have a Twitter account and be 13 years old or older, the content must have been posted to Twitter from your album via the HOME Menu on your Nintendo Switch console, the content can only be from your 1,000 most recent tweets and the tweet must include one of the following hashtags: #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #どうぶつの森 #动物森友会 #動物森友會 #동물의숲.
- For more information, visit the Q&A on the Island Tour Creator website.
Complete these steps
- Access the Island Tour Creator website on your smartphone or smart device.
- Sign in to your Nintendo Account.
- Select whether you'd like to create an Island Poster (using a screenshot and a tagline) or an Island Trailer (using multiple screenshots or videos).
- Upload the Animal Crossing: New Horizons screenshots or videos that you've captured on your Nintendo Switch console using the content you've saved on your smartphone or posted on Twitter. Images and videos that were not captured directly on your Nintendo Switch console cannot be uploaded.
- To save screenshots and videos from your Nintendo Switch console to your phone, follow our steps on How to Transfer Screenshots and Video Captures to a Smart Device Wirelessly or Via a USB Cable.
- To upload content from your Nintendo Switch console to Twitter, follow our steps on How to Edit and Post Screenshots to Twitter.
Where do you want to upload the screenshots or video from?
- When prompted, tap the + icon to open the album on your phone.
- Select the screenshot or video from Animal Crossing: New Horizons that you wish to use.
- Edit your poster or trailer as desired, then download it once you are finished.
- It can take five minutes or longer to process a trailer after it is finished.
- If you close the website while creating your poster or trailer, your work will be lost and you will need to start over. If a trailer has finished processing, you can return to the URL you receive and sign in with your Nintendo Account within 48 hours to download it.
- You can now share your downloaded poster or trailer with others to show off your island!
- When prompted, tap Link to Twitter.
- Enter your Twitter account sign-in information to authorise Island Tour Creator to access your account, then tap Sign In.
- A list of up to 200 screenshots or videos from Animal Crossing: New Horizons that you have posted in tweets will be displayed.
- Select the screenshot or video that you wish to use.
- Edit your poster or trailer as desired, then download it once you are finished.
- It can take five minutes or longer to process a trailer after it is finished.
- If you close the website while creating your poster or trailer, your work will be lost and you will need to start over. If a trailer has finished processing, you can return to the URL you receive and sign in with your Nintendo Account within 48 hours to download it.
- You can now share your downloaded poster or trailer with others to show off your island!