Photo to Anime

Photo to Anime redraws a photograph as a frame from an animated series. Upload a picture and choose a style; the composition is kept, the people stay clearly recognisable, and the whole image is rendered with clean line art, vibrant cel shading and a painterly background in the chosen anime tradition. Fans, cosplayers, couples, streamers and anyone who wants an anime version of themselves or their pet use it, and the painted background makes travel photos especially rewarding. Hair, eyes and expression carry the likeness, while the background gets the painted treatment an animation studio would give a key frame.

Seven styles cover the genres. Classic is the standard anime look. Shonen is high-energy action with dynamic shading. Shojo is soft and romantic with sparkles and delicate lines. Cinematic film gives the lush hand-painted backgrounds of an animated feature. Cyberpunk adds neon and night. Chibi shrinks everyone into cute oversized-head versions, and manga ink produces a black-and-white page with screentone shading. The style also sets the line weight and the colour treatment, from the soft pastel washes of shojo to the hard neon contrast of cyberpunk, so the same photo can look like two different series.

Selfies, couple photos, travel shots and pet pictures all work, and a photo taken in an interesting location gains a beautifully painted background for free. For matching avatars, use one style across a set of photos. Run Background Remover on a result for a transparent sticker or emote, and Upscale for a poster-sized print. Cartoonizer covers Western animation styles. Every rendered frame is saved to your library, so a set of matching profile pictures or a series of posts in one style is a matter of running the same photos through the same select.