Turn Your Photo Into Anime, a Cartoon or a Comic
Upload a photo, tap a look, and watch yourself get redrawn. Twelve hand-tuned styles across three families - anime cel shading, cartoon gloss and inked comic panels - each with its own prompt and strength already dialled in, so you never have to write one. Drag the slider to compare before and after, then download.
- Styles
- 12, across anime / cartoon / comic
- You provide
- One photo - that's it
- Prompt writing
- None. The style is pre-tuned
- Keeps
- Your pose, framing and composition
- Input formats
- JPG, PNG, WebP up to 16 MB
- Cost
- 30 credits per run
- Rights
- Results are CC0 - yours to use
Original photo
Modern Anime
Drag to compare: the pose, framing and lighting hold while the render changes completely.
Your photo, redrawn
Upload, tap a look, hit go. No prompt writing - every style is already tuned.
Twelve looks, one photo
Every example below is a real conversion, not a mock-up - all from the same source photo.
Anime
Cel-shaded Japanese animation looks, from modern TV to 90s film stock.
Clean cel shading, glossy eyes and saturated colour - the look of a current-season TV anime.
Muted film palette, heavier linework and visible grain - hand-painted cel era.
Pure black-and-white manga: screentone shading, speed lines and confident inking.
Watercolour-soft anime with gentle light, airy pastels and painterly edges.
Cartoon
Western animation - glossy 3D, flat classic toon, and cute exaggeration.
Glossy 3D animated-feature styling with soft subsurface skin and cinematic light.
Thick confident outlines and flat bright fills - Saturday-morning animation energy.
Oversized head, tiny body, huge sparkling eyes. Adorable on purpose.
Friendly exaggeration of the features that make the face distinctive.
Comic
Inked and printed looks: comic books, noir panels and pop-art dots.
Heavy ink, dramatic shadow and Ben-Day dot printing - a page straight out of a comic.
Stark black-and-white ink, deep shadow and hard directional light. Very moody.
Flat blocked colour, bold black outlines and big printed dots. Impossible to ignore.
Painted, muted and grown-up - the illustrated look of a modern graphic novel.
How the conversion actually works
Under the hood this is image-to-image transfer: the model reads your photo as structure - where the edges, shapes and light are - and repaints that structure with a different visual grammar. It is not a filter stacked on top of your pixels, and it is not drawing something new from scratch. That is why the pose, framing and composition survive while the linework, shading and palette change completely. The same engine powers image to image and restyle; what this page adds is the tuning.
Why the styles are pre-tuned
Every look here ships with a prompt written for it and the strength it actually needs. That matters more than it sounds: a photo asked to become a comic panel wants heavier redrawing than one becoming soft pastel anime, and a face pushed too hard simply stops being your face. Rather than make you discover that, each style card moves the strength dial to its tuned value the moment you pick it. You can still override it - the dial is right there - but the default is the one we would choose.
| Strength | What you get | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5 – 3.4 | A gentle pass. The drawing hugs your photo closely; expect softer, subtler stylisation. | Keeping a face as close to the original as possible |
| 3.5 – 4.9 | The sweet spot. A committed illustration that still holds your pose, framing and likeness. | Almost everything - this is where the tuned defaults sit |
| 5.0 – 6.4 | The style takes over. Linework and palette dominate; fine facial detail gets simplified. | Manga ink, noir and pop art, where graphic punch matters more than detail |
| 6.5 – 8.0 | Proportions get redrawn, not just restyled. Expect a character who resembles you. | Chibi and caricature - looks that are meant to exaggerate |
Getting a result you actually like
Start from a clear, well-lit photo where the subject fills a decent part of the frame; anime and cartoon looks lean hard on facial features, and they cannot sharpen what the camera never captured. Front-facing or three-quarter angles convert far better than extreme profiles. Busy backgrounds tend to get simplified, which usually helps. And re-running the same photo gives a slightly different drawing each time - if a result is close but not quite there, run it again before reaching for the dial.
Where it struggles - honestly
Hands, teeth and text in the background are the usual casualties; they are hard for every model of this kind, not just this one. Group photos dilute the effect because the model spreads its attention across faces. Very dark or heavily compressed phone photos give the model little structure to read, and the result looks muddy. Glasses sometimes melt into the face at higher strengths. None of these are settings you can fix - they are the current state of the art, and knowing them saves you credits.
Good photos in, good drawings out
- Light the face. Even, front-ish light gives the model the edges it needs to redraw.
- Get close. A subject filling a third of the frame converts far better than a distant one.
- Face the camera. Front or three-quarter angles beat extreme profiles every time.
- One subject. Crop groups down - attention spread across faces weakens every one of them.
- Re-run it. Every pass draws slightly differently. A second run is often the keeper.
Want a style nobody put on a card? The restyle tool takes any style you can describe, and the prompt-writing guide covers how to phrase one. To build a styled character from scratch instead of a photo, use the AI image generator.
From photo to illustration in three steps
Upload your photo
A clear, well-lit shot works best - a portrait, a pet, a landscape or a product.
Tap a look
Twelve tuned styles across anime, cartoon and comic. The commitment dial moves to match.
Compare and download
Drag the slider to see before and after, then save your illustration.