Upload one photo, pick crisp cel, soft illustration, or vintage color, keep or replace the background, then compare and download.
Identity first, style second
The look is a fixed set of instructions the workbench sends for you. Face structure, age, pose, and clothing are asked to stay put so the result still reads as the same person.
Upload one photo, choose a look and a background, then inspect the split view before downloading.
JPG, PNG, or WebP · up to 5 MB · 256–4,096 px per side · ≤ 16 MP
Your anime version will appear here
Upload a supported photo to verify its size and prepare one conversion.
Anime cases
These illustrative, AI-generated examples show what each control does. They are not measured outputs or a performance benchmark for the production service. Actual results vary, so inspect your own result against its source before you keep it.
A head-and-shoulders portrait redrawn with hard color regions and visible ink contours. The face shape, hairstyle, glasses, and shirt collar stay where the camera put them, while the room behind the person is kept readable.
A dog on a sofa redrawn with gentle blended shading and painterly texture. Fur becomes soft brushwork, the head tilt and paw placement stay in place, and the cushions keep their shape and color.
A person walking across a city street with the anime background option. The subject keeps pose, clothing, and framing, while the street is rebuilt as a coherent anime scene that matches the light direction and camera angle.
What changes and what stays
An anime conversion is only useful when the person is still recognizable afterward. This tool changes rendering, line, and palette. It asks the model to leave who is in the picture, how they stand, and how the photo was framed alone.
Every run carries the same locked instruction: keep face structure, age presentation, race presentation, gender presentation, pose, clothing, hairstyle, and camera framing. The brief also says not to beautify anyone into a different person.
Crisp cel uses hard color regions, ink contours, bright eyes, and limited gradients. Soft illustration keeps gentle shading and painterly texture without going photoreal. Vintage color uses slightly faded primaries and a film-print palette. None of them imitate a named studio.
Likeness is not guaranteed. Group photos keep each visible person in place, but the identity lock is weaker for every additional face. The output is a new raster image, not a vector file or a layered document, so check eyes, hands, and text before you use it.
The converter generates a new image from your photo plus a fixed, server-owned anime brief. It does not trace your photo or apply a pixel filter, so small details can move. The default brief does not change age, race, or gender presentation, and it never tries to make the person look like someone else. When the source is tiny, blurred, or heavily compressed, the redraw has less to hold on to and the likeness drops.
Keep the original file. If a face, tattoo, logo, or piece of jewelry drifted, discard the result and try a clearer photo or a different look. Multi-person photos are supported, but exact likeness for every face is not guaranteed. If you need a controlled, art-directed likeness, a commissioned illustrator remains the right choice.
Upload only photos you have the right and consent to process. Signed-in anime tasks and results can appear in My Creations so a task can be recovered after a temporary connection problem instead of being paid for twice.
The current storage backend has no automatic expiry for uploaded or generated image objects. Delete in My Creations calls the authenticated creation-delete endpoint and soft-deletes the task record from account history; it does not delete the underlying image object or provider copy. Review the Privacy Policy and contact support before uploading photos of children or other sensitive portraits.
Practical workflow
Start with the clearest photo you have. One person facing the camera, in good light, with the face at least a few hundred pixels wide, gives the identity lock the most to work with.
Choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP file up to 5 MB, with each side from 256 to 4,096 pixels and no more than 16 megapixels. The workbench reads the dimensions locally before anything is uploaded.
Crisp cel is the default. Soft illustration is gentler, vintage color is retro. Then choose whether the original background stays readable or is replaced with a matching anime scene. Both choices change the instructions the server sends.
Sign in, confirm the fixed cost of 20 credits, and start one tracked job. The result is a 1K image at the same aspect ratio as your photo. Controls lock while the job runs so the request and the result always describe the same look.
Drag the split view across the face, hands, clothing, and any text in the frame. Download only when the drawing still agrees with the person in the photo. Retry the original task from the workbench if a connection drop pauses status checks.
Choose the right anime workflow
The best route depends on whether you need a result in your browser in about a minute, a filter stack you can tune by hand, or a directed likeness from a human artist.
Tool specifications
The workbench accepts one JPG, PNG, or WebP image up to 5 MB. Each side must be between 256 and 4,096 pixels, and the image must stay within 16 megapixels. One run costs 20 credits and returns a 1K result at an automatic aspect ratio. Higher output sizes are not offered on this page because the automatic aspect ratio is only available at 1K.
Processing infers line, shading, and color that the camera never recorded, so the result is an interpretation rather than a trace. By using the tool, you confirm that your upload complies with the Terms of Service. Reviewed by the Banana Pro AI product team · Last reviewed: 2026-09-11.
Questions
Clear answers about looks, backgrounds, likeness, group photos, and credit use.
That is the goal of the locked brief, which asks the model to keep face structure, age, race and gender presentation, pose, hairstyle, and clothing. It is not a guarantee. Clear, well-lit, front-facing photos hold identity best. Compare the result with the split view before you use it.
Crisp cel gives hard color regions, ink contours, and bright eyes. Soft illustration keeps gentle blended shading and painterly texture. Vintage color uses faded primaries and a film-print palette. All three stay Japanese anime rather than western cartoon, and none copies a named studio.
Original background asks the model to keep the same place, objects, and light direction, restyled to match the look. Anime background replaces the setting with a coherent anime scene that follows the subject lighting and camera angle. Either way, the person, pose, and clothing are asked to stay the same.
Yes, with limits. Pets convert well because pose and markings carry the likeness. Group photos keep every visible person in place, but the identity lock is not guaranteed for each face, so check everyone before sharing.
One run uses 20 credits and returns a single 1K image. The workbench shows the cost and your remaining balance before submission, and the task system avoids paying twice when a connection is interrupted.
Keep drawing
Use the narrowest tool that fits. Sketch when you want graphite instead of color, an avatar when you want a stylized profile picture from scratch, or a western cartoon when the drawing should stay in color without Japanese anime line. If you already have a moving clip, restyle it with Video to Anime.
Keep the original. Check the likeness.
Start with one clear photo, review the fixed 20-credit cost, and compare the anime result with the original before you keep it.
Open the anime workbench