Turn your photo into an anime character — or describe one and generate it from scratch. Clean line art, cel shading, anime backgrounds.
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Kenerate's AI anime generator turns a photo into anime — portraits, street scenes, landscapes — with clean line art and cel shading, keeping hair, outfit and pose. Or generate anime from text with anime specialists like Neta Lumina and Pony XL. Seedream 5.0 Pro (at 2K) gave the most faithful photo-to-anime conversions in our tests. A free account gets 25 credits.
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Photo conversions are Seedream 5.0 Pro edits; text examples come from Seedream and Kling Image.
Same prompt
Originals and their anime versions — same person, same scene.
Turn this photo into an anime illustration, clean line art and cel shading, same hair, outfit and pose.
Tips
What worked in our tests.
How to
Models
What each model is good at. Open any one straight in the generator.
Make your first one — 25 free credits on sign-up.
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The same credits work in every Kenerate tool.
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The same credits work across images, video, voice and 3D.
In depth
What works, what to avoid, and how to pick a model.
Converting a photo keeps a real composition and likeness; generating from text gives you full creative control over an original character. Many people do both: design a character from text, then place it into anime versions of real places.
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FAQ
4 questions
Upload it and ask for “anime illustration, clean cel shading, same hair and smile”. Seedream 5.0 Pro gave the most faithful results in our tests.
A new account gets 25 free credits, which work on free-plan models such as Flux 2 Dev. Neta Lumina and Pony XL need a one-time credit pack; credits never expire.
Yes — Neta Lumina is an anime specialist; Pony XL reads Pony score tags.
Yes — the Lisbon street example became an anime background painting.
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Written by the Kenerate AI team
We build and run the Kenerate generator. Every example is a real output of the model named under it; models and presets were checked against the app's code. Last updated 27 September 2026. Corrections: hello@kenerateai.com.
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