Photo to anime converter

Turn a photo into anime art. Your likeness stays intact.

Every image model

One workspace

Anime looks you can create

Turn a photo into anime in three steps

  1. 01

    Open Morphic

    Sign up and start creating on a free-flowing, infinite visual canvas.

  2. 02

    Upload your photo and pick a style

    Add the reference image and describe the anime look you want, from clean TV anime to bold cel shading.

  3. 03

    Generate, then animate if you want

    Morphic restyles the photo while holding your likeness. Keep the still or take it into motion, then export.

Use cases

Profile pictures and avatars

Turn a favourite selfie into an anime avatar for social, gaming, or a chat profile. Because the render starts from your photo, the character still reads as you rather than a stock face. Try a few styles side by side and keep the one that fits the platform. Export at the size the profile needs.

Profile pictures and avatars

Couple and family portraits

Restyle a couple photo or a family shot into a single anime scene you can print or send. Everyone is redrawn in the same style in one pass, so the group holds together. It makes a warm, personal gift or a card that a plain photo would not. Crop to one person first if you want the tightest likeness.

Couple and family portraits

Stream and channel branding

Build a consistent anime version of yourself for a stream overlay, an intro card, or channel art. Lock one style and reuse it across banners, emotes, and thumbnails so the brand stays recognisable. Animate the portrait for a looping intro if you want movement. It gives a solo creator a designed look without a studio.

Stream and channel branding

Character art from a real reference

Use your own photo as the base for an original character, then push the pose, outfit, or setting in the prompt. It keeps a familiar face at the centre of a fully drawn scene. Great for a comic, a tabletop token, or a story project. Iterate on the Canvas until the character reads the way you pictured.

Character art from a real reference

Prompt examples

Portrait restyled as soft modern anime with likeness held

Clean modern anime

Redraw this portrait as soft modern TV anime, keep my face shape, eyes, and hair colour, gentle cel shading

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Photo converted to retro 90s cel anime style

Retro 90s cel

Turn this photo into 90s cel anime with grainy film texture and warm colour, hold my expression

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Portrait drawn as black and white manga ink line art

Manga ink line

Convert to black and white manga with clean ink line and screentone shading, keep the likeness

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Watercolour anime portrait with muted palette

Watercolour anime

Restyle as soft watercolour anime, muted palette, hair and eyes recognisable, gentle bloom of light

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Anime action character with dynamic pose and speed lines

Action scene

Redraw me as a shonen action character mid-motion, dynamic pose, keep my face, add speed lines

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Anime portrait set against a neon city street at dusk

City at dusk

Place my anime portrait on a neon city street at dusk, keep the likeness, cinematic anime lighting

Edit prompt

All on Morphic

Your complete restyle stack

Simple pricing

Get started for free today, with the option to upgrade or cancel anytime.

Basic

$9/ month
billed as $0 per year

1100 monthly credits

1 user only

All models

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Standard

$24/ month
billed as $0 per year

3625 monthly credits

1 user only

All models

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Pro

$45/ month
billed as $0 per year

6350 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 4 more at extra cost

All models

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Pro Max

$170/ month
billed as $0 per year

24650 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 9 more at extra cost

All models

Workflows

Enterprise

For higher limits

Custom

pricing and billing terms

High-volume credits
Custom seat limits
All models
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Pricing Gradient

Free

For playing around

$0

forever free

Up to 20 credits
1 user only
Limited models
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FAQs

How does photo to anime work?
It is an image-to-image restyle. You upload a photo and Morphic uses it as the reference, then redraws it in an anime style while keeping the features that make the face recognisable. The pose, the framing, and the expression carry across, so the result reads as you drawn as a character rather than a generic anime face.
Will it still look like me?
That is the whole point of using your photo as the reference. The eyes, the hairline, the face shape, and the expression are held while the rendering shifts to anime line work and shading. You can push the stylisation harder or keep it subtle depending on how much likeness you want to preserve.
Can I choose an anime style?
Yes. Name the look in the prompt, from soft modern TV anime to bold retro cel shading, watercolour-tinged, or a clean manga ink line. You can also swap image models to find the rendering that suits the photo, since each handles line and colour a little differently.
Can I turn the anime portrait into a moving clip?
Yes. Once the still reads the way you want, animate it with image-to-video to add a gentle blink, hair movement, or a slow camera drift. It is optional, so you can stop at the still or take it into motion for a profile or an intro card.
Does it work on group photos?
It can, though single subjects hold the likeness best. On a group shot the model restyles everyone at once, which is great for a couple or a small team card. For the cleanest per-face result, crop to one person and run each separately, then arrange them together.
Do I need to sign up?
You can look through the examples without an account. To convert your own photo, a free account takes under a minute to create.

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