Ghibli Style Illustration
Turn real photos into hand-drawn anime scenes
Ghibli Style Illustration
Turn real photos into hand-drawn anime scenes
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Description
Transform real portraits into Studio Ghibli-style hand-drawn anime illustrations. This tool strictly preserves the original composition, poses, expressions, clothing, and scene layout while simplifying facial features in the Ghibli style, applying cel shading with dark brown outlines, and rendering backgrounds in a soft, natural hand-drawn aesthetic that avoids realistic or 3D textures. It automatically uses the current best image generation model; simply upload a photo to get started.
Best for
Individuals and content creators looking to transform portraits into hand-drawn anime illustrations.
How to use this Skill
Provide your input
Upload one or more portraits and optionally specify adjustments for the background or aspect ratio.
Run the Skill
Converts photos into hand-drawn anime illustrations while closely preserving character features, poses, composition, clothing, and scene layout.
Review your result
Generates one or more anime-style illustrations along with a brief explanation of the key features preserved and stylized.
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Information
- Version
- v6
- Last updated
- Runtime credits
- Usage-based
- Models
- Auto
- Use cases
- Images & design
- What you get
- Image
- Visual styles
- Hand-drawnAnimeFlat
