Anime Filter
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.
Examples
How it works
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Name the light and the setting. The anime style is already locked, so those two are what is left to decide.
A modern anime bust portrait in bright even daylight, short dark hair, a plain soft-blue background, clean linework and simple cel shading.
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.
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
The square crops straight to an avatar, and clean linework survives being shrunk to 32 pixels in a way a photograph does not.
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.
A consistent anime treatment across a set of photos gives a feed or a channel one look without hiring an illustrator for each one.
Useful as a starting point if you draw: it settles the palette and the shading steps, and you keep the parts you want.
This generator uses 8 credits for one 1K image. Membership credits work across YouArt image, video, audio, and workflow tools.
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