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Anime and illustration · on Telegram

Turn a photo into anime

Cel shading, soft painted backgrounds, the light doing something it never did in the original. It also gives things faces — a sunflower, a car, a kettle — which is where it stops being a filter and starts being a drawing.

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The photo
Anime

How it works

Three steps

1. Send the photo

A portrait or a scene, both work. Faces come out best when they are reasonably large in the frame.

2. Name the look

“anime”, “soft hand-painted animation background”, “90s cel animation”, “ink and watercolour”.

3. Push it

“bigger eyes”, “warmer light”, “keep my glasses”, “more painterly”.

Getting a good result

What to send

Questions

Common questions

Will I still be recognisable?

Mostly. The stronger the style, the less of the likeness survives — that is the trade. Ask for “subtle” if you want to stay clearly yourself.

Can it do other styles?

Any style you can name: oil painting, watercolour, pencil, 3D render, comic book, 1950s poster. Same photo, different sentence.

Can it turn objects into characters?

Yes, and it is one of the more charming things it does — “give the sunflowers faces”, “make the kettle a character”. Say what mood they should be in and it will act it out.

Is the result mine?

You can use it however you like. It is generated from your photo and comes back without a watermark.

Also

Other things it does

Free to start

Try it with one photo

Try it in Telegram