What does the anime filter produce?

One 1K square anime portrait: even-weight linework, cel shading in two or three tone steps, expressive eyes with a clear catchlight, and hair in grouped strands with a bright highlight band. It works from an uploaded photo or from a written description alone.

How should I write the prompt?

The anime style is already locked, so spend the prompt on light and setting: "sunset rooftop, warm rim light" or "indoors, soft window light". Naming a mood does more than listing facial features, which the filter takes from your photo anyway.

Will it still look like me?

That is what this page is built around. The instruction holds face shape, eye spacing, nose and mouth proportion, hairline and skin tone, and explicitly forbids enlarging the eyes or narrowing the jaw into a generic anime face. A clear, well-lit, front-facing photo gives it the most to work from.

Can I use the result commercially?

Yes. Images you generate on YouArt are yours to use, including commercially. The instruction refuses to imitate a named studio, franchise or artist, or to reproduce an existing anime character or costume, so what comes back is an original illustration.

What does a run cost?

Each run costs 8 credits and returns one 1K square image. Membership credits work the same way here as anywhere else on YouArt.

Anime Filter

Anime Filter That Keeps Your Face Recognisable

Upload a photo and it comes back as a modern anime portrait — clean linework, cel shading in a few deliberate tone steps, expressive eyes. The stylisation simplifies your features instead of replacing them, so the result is still plainly you.

Describe the anime portrait you want

8 credits

An anime portrait generated from a description: clean linework, cel shading in a few tone steps and expressive eyes against a soft plain background — One run, one 1K square portrait. This one named bright daylight and a plain background.

Examples

Four moods, one anime style

Bright daylight, plain background
Sunset rooftop, warm rim light
Indoors, soft window light
Night city, cool key and neon fill

How it works

An anime portrait in three steps

Step 1
Upload a photo or describe one
Attach a clear, front-facing photo, or describe the portrait you want. Naming the light and the setting — daylight, sunset, night city — does more for the result than listing features.
Step 2
Generate the portrait
YouArt returns one 1K square anime portrait for 8 credits, with even-weight linework, cel shading in two or three tone steps and a bright coherent palette.
Step 3
Check the likeness, then download
Compare the eye spacing and the face shape against your photo. Anime convention wants to enlarge the eyes and narrow the jaw; this instruction tells it not to. If it drifted anyway, ask again for the same face shape.

What this filter does

Anime stylisation, your face

It keeps your likeness

Face shape, eye spacing, nose and mouth proportion, hairline, skin tone and details like glasses or freckles are held through the restyle. That is the part most anime filters get wrong.

Real cel shading

Shadow lands in two or three deliberate steps rather than a soft gradient, which is what makes a drawing read as anime rather than as a smoothed photograph.

Clean, even linework

Lines keep a consistent weight and hair is drawn in grouped strands with one bright highlight band, so the portrait holds up when it is scaled down to an avatar.

Prompt ideas

Three prompts to start from

Name the light and the setting. The anime style is already locked, so those two are what is left to decide.

Bright daylight bust

A modern anime bust portrait in bright even daylight, short dark hair, a plain soft-blue background, clean linework and simple cel shading.

Sunset rooftop, rim light

A modern anime portrait on a rooftop at sunset, warm orange rim light along the hair and jaw, cool shadow on the face, city rooftops soft in the background.

Indoors, soft window light

A modern anime portrait indoors, soft window light from the left, casual knitwear, a simple warm interior kept out of focus behind the subject.

What people use it for

Where an anime portrait goes

Profile pictures and avatars

The square crops straight to an avatar, and clean linework survives being shrunk to 32 pixels in a way a photograph does not.

Gifts and print

An anime portrait of someone reads as made for them in a way a filtered photo does not. The 1K square prints cleanly at card and small-print size.

Social posts and banners

A consistent anime treatment across a set of photos gives a feed or a channel one look without hiring an illustrator for each one.

Reference for your own drawing

Useful as a starting point if you draw: it settles the palette and the shading steps, and you keep the parts you want.

Create more with one YouArt membership

This generator uses 8 credits for one 1K image. Membership credits work across YouArt image, video, audio, and workflow tools.

Basic

For hobbyists and explorers

$9.99/mo

Select Plan

1000 credits
Up to ~200 images/month
At least ~1000s video/month
Intelligent creative agent
Video editor
Latest image models, including GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
Latest video models, including Seedance 2
Realistic face uploads
Voice generation with ElevenLabs
No watermark
Unlimited template access

Pro

Max

For power users and teams

$149.99/mo

Select Plan

18000 credits
Up to ~6000 images/month
At least ~18000s video/month
Intelligent creative agent
Video editor
Latest image models, including GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
Latest video models, including Seedance 2
Realistic face uploads
Voice generation with ElevenLabs
No watermark
Unlimited template access

Team

For teams and studios

$329.99/mo

Select Plan

36300 credits
Up to ~12000 images/month
At least ~36300s video/month
Realistic face uploads
Share canvas, workflows, and assets with your team
Up to 10 members per team
Up to 5 teams
Role-based management
Team credit management and spending caps
Per-member usage tracking

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FAQ

Anime filter questions

What does the anime filter produce?: One 1K square anime portrait: even-weight linework, cel shading in two or three tone steps, expressive eyes with a clear catchlight, and hair in grouped strands with a bright highlight band. It works from an uploaded photo or from a written description alone.
How should I write the prompt?: The anime style is already locked, so spend the prompt on light and setting: "sunset rooftop, warm rim light" or "indoors, soft window light". Naming a mood does more than listing facial features, which the filter takes from your photo anyway.
Will it still look like me?: That is what this page is built around. The instruction holds face shape, eye spacing, nose and mouth proportion, hairline and skin tone, and explicitly forbids enlarging the eyes or narrowing the jaw into a generic anime face. A clear, well-lit, front-facing photo gives it the most to work from.
Can I use the result commercially?: Yes. Images you generate on YouArt are yours to use, including commercially. The instruction refuses to imitate a named studio, franchise or artist, or to reproduce an existing anime character or costume, so what comes back is an original illustration.
What does a run cost?: Each run costs 8 credits and returns one 1K square image. Membership credits work the same way here as anywhere else on YouArt.

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