Anime AI Image Generator

Make anime key visuals, everyday scenes, character sheets and background paintings with cel shading, clean ink lines and painted light.

An anime girl in a white shirt and shorts riding a bicycle down a hill road past a guardrail, tiled rooftops below her, a glittering blue sea and a towering summer cloud ahead
A young man asleep on the green bench of an almost empty local train, a paperback open on his lap, late sun laying gold rectangles on the floor and rice fields outside the windows
An anime painting of a blue and white bowl of shoyu ramen on a wooden counter: two halves of a jammy egg, two slices of chashu, scallions and nori, steam rising, chopsticks and a spoon beside it

What is an anime AI image generator?

It makes images in the conventions of Japanese animation: hard-edged cel shading, clean ink lines, expressive faces and flat-colored figures in front of a painted background. Describe the character, the place and the light. On Nano Banana 2.1 an image costs 10 credits.

What makes the look

Line, shading, faces, background and framing

Name them in your prompt. A painted background behind flat figures does most of the work.

  1. Line

    Clean ink outlines, heavier at the silhouette and lighter inside the shape.

  2. Shading

    Cel shading: one or two hard-edged shadow tones per color, with no soft blending on the figures.

  3. Faces

    Large eyes with bright highlights, a small nose and mouth, and hair drawn in solid clumps.

  1. Background

    A detailed painted background behind flat figures, with strong weather or light: a summer cloud, late sun on a floor, a dusk sky.

  2. Framing

    Film framing: a low camera, a wide sky, one clear main character, or an empty place waiting for one.

Category
Animation
Best subjects
Key visuals, everyday scenes, character sheets, backgrounds, food
Credits
10 per image on Nano Banana 2.1
Frame
16:9 for key visuals, 4:5 for characters
Resolution
1K, 2K or 4K
References
Up to 14 images

Your photo, in anime

Attach a photo of yourself and ask for anime.

A phone selfie of a smiling woman with brown skin and dark curly hair in a mustard sweater, against a pale grey wall
An anime drawing of a woman with dark curly hair in a mustard sweater, smiling and holding up her phone, clean ink lines and cel shading on a pale grey background

Anime examples

A key visual, a quiet scene, a model sheet, an expression study, a background plate and a food close-up. Each card shows the prompt, the model and what the image costs. Copy a prompt and swap in your own character.

An anime girl in a white shirt and shorts riding a bicycle down a hill road past a guardrail, tiled rooftops below her, a glittering blue sea and a towering summer cloud ahead

An anime key visual: a young woman in a white summer shirt freewheels a bicycle down a steep hill road toward the sea, her short hair and shirt blown back by the wind. Low camera at the edge of the road, tiled rooftops of a small town dropping away below her, a glittering blue sea and one towering summer cloud lit warm by the late afternoon sun. Cel-shaded figure with clean ink lines and hard-edged shadows, a richly hand-painted background, saturated summer blues and warm whites. No text.

Nano Banana 2.110 credits
A young man asleep on the green bench of an almost empty local train, a paperback open on his lap, late sun laying gold rectangles on the floor and rice fields outside the windows

A quiet anime frame: a young man asleep against the window of an almost empty local train in late afternoon, a paperback open on his lap. Warm sunlight slants through the windows and lays long golden rectangles across the seats and the floor. Outside, green rice fields and low hills. Cel shading in soft amber light, clean thin ink lines, a hand-painted background, calm and warm. No text.

Flux 3 Image6 credits
An anime model sheet of a girl with a black bob in a yellow rain jacket, black cycling shorts and white high-tops, a navy messenger bag across her chest, in front, three-quarter, side and back views with six color swatches below

An anime character model sheet of one original character: a young bike courier with a short black bob, a bright yellow rain jacket, a navy messenger bag across her chest, black cycling shorts and white high-top sneakers. Front, three-quarter, side and back views standing in a row at the same height and scale, relaxed neutral pose, and a row of flat color swatches underneath. Clean ink line art, flat cel color with one hard shadow tone, plain off-white background. No text or labels.

Nano Banana 2.110 credits
Six anime drawings of one girl with a black bob, round glasses and a yellow jacket collar: calm, laughing, surprised, blushing, annoyed and smiling

An anime expression study of one original character: a young woman with a short black bob, round tortoiseshell glasses, a few freckles and the collar of a yellow rain jacket. Six head-and-shoulders drawings in a 3 by 2 grid: calm, laughing, surprised, embarrassed with pink cheeks, annoyed, and a small quiet smile. The same face, hair and glasses in every drawing. Clean ink lines, flat cel color, plain warm off-white background. No text or labels.

Nano Banana 2.110 credits
A painted anime background of an empty residential lane at dusk: two-story houses, potted plants, power lines, a lit streetlight and a glowing vending machine under a peach and violet sky

An anime background painting with no characters: a narrow residential lane at summer dusk, two-story houses with tiled roofs, potted plants by the doors, a vending machine glowing at the corner, power lines crossing a sky that fades from peach to violet, the first streetlight just switched on. Hand-painted in layered poster color with crisp architectural edges, like a background plate from a theatrical animated film. Warm and still. No people, no text.

Nano Banana 2.110 credits
An anime painting of a blue and white bowl of shoyu ramen on a wooden counter: two halves of a jammy egg, two slices of chashu, scallions and nori, steam rising, chopsticks and a spoon beside it

Anime food art: a bowl of shoyu ramen on a pale wooden counter, glossy amber broth, a soft-boiled egg cut in half with a jammy orange yolk, two slices of chashu, a sheet of nori and sliced scallions, steam curling up. Painted like the food close-ups in Japanese animation: crisp cel highlights on the broth and the egg, clean ink lines, warm light from the left, a softly painted noodle shop interior behind. No text.

Nano Banana 2.110 credits

Make your own key visual

Describe the character, what they are doing and the light, then add the cues: cel shading, ink lines, a painted background.

One run on Nano Banana 2.1: 4 images at 16:9, 40 credits.
Start creating

Free to start

One anime key visual on three models

Same prompt, same settings. Nano Banana 2.1 kept the hill and the guardrail. Seedream 5 Pro painted the deepest sky but put her on a flat road. Flux 3 Image drew the softest, most watercolor background.

Same prompt, every model

An anime key visual: a young woman in a white summer shirt freewheels a bicycle down a steep hill road toward the sea, her short hair and shirt blown back by the wind. Low camera at the edge of the road, tiled rooftops of a small town dropping away below her, a glittering blue sea and one towering summer cloud lit warm by the late afternoon sun. Cel-shaded figure with clean ink lines and hard-edged shadows, a richly hand-painted background, saturated summer blues and warm whites. No text.

  • An anime girl in a white shirt and shorts riding a bicycle down a hill road past a guardrail, tiled rooftops below her, a glittering blue sea and a towering summer cloud ahead
    Nano Banana 2.1

    10 credits

  • An anime girl laughing with her eyes closed as she rides a bicycle along a coast road, a deep blue sea, a white town below and a huge white cloud in a cobalt sky
    Seedream 5 Pro

    11 credits

  • An anime girl in a white shirt and blue shorts riding a bicycle down a curving coast road, red-roofed houses and a pale sea below, soft painted summer clouds
    Flux 3 Image

    6 credits

Each result is the best of three runs. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst drew the rider from behind on every run, so it is not shown. Credits are each model's base price per image.

How it works

  1. Design the character

    Give them a look you can repeat: hair, clothes and one or two things they carry. Anime figures read by silhouette and color, so keep the design simple.

  2. Set the scene and the light

    Say where it happens, the time of day and the weather. Late sun, a summer cloud or a dusk sky gives the painted background its mood.

  3. Carry the character forward

    Make a model sheet first, then attach it as a reference for each new scene, so the face and clothes stay the same.

Questions about anime images