Anime styles

Hand-drawn Japanese animation looks: clean cel shading, expressive eyes, painted skies and the particular color of each era.

  • 90s Anime Illustration style example

    90s Anime Illustration

    This look recalls the glossy pin-up pages of late-century anime magazines.

  • Anime Digital Illustration style example

    Anime Digital Illustration

    Warm, open and hopeful, this look paints characters against wide skies and large calm spaces.

  • Anime Illustration style example

    Anime Illustration

    Sweet, airy and gently domestic, this look turns ordinary scenes into something like a greeting card.

  • Anime Illustration Style style example

    Anime Illustration Style

    A calm dusk-toned look that feels lived in.

  • Anime story style example

    Anime story

    Cinematic and scenic, this look is built around golden hours.

  • Atmospheric Cel Animation style example

    Atmospheric Cel Animation

    Dreamy and enveloping, this look lives at twilight.

  • Bright Gouache Summer Sky style example

    Bright Gouache Summer Sky

    High summer in paint.

  • Chibi Anime Illustration style example

    Chibi Anime Illustration

    Small, round and endearing, this look draws characters with oversized heads on tiny bodies, simple dot eyes and a small mouth.

  • Classic 90s Anime style example

    Classic 90s Anime

    A classic hand-painted night look with a hint of film grain.

  • Classic Anime style example

    Classic Anime

    Honest, steady and broadcast-ready, this is the television cel look many viewers grew up with.

  • Classic Anime Illustration style example

    Classic Anime Illustration

    Rich and cinematic, this look captures the density of late-1980s theatrical cels.

  • Cyberpunk Anime Art style example

    Cyberpunk Anime Art

    Loud, humid and electric, this look floods skylines with near-neon magenta, violet and cyan.

  • Digital Anime Illustration style example

    Digital Anime Illustration

    Lush, soft and ornamental, this look fills every corner with blossoms, ribbons and trim.

  • Dynamic Manga Illustration style example

    Dynamic Manga Illustration

    Kinetic and punchy, this look is built for action.

  • Edgy Anime Illustration style example

    Edgy Anime Illustration

    Moody and warm-toned, this look feels like an illustrated visual novel set in a cluttered room at late afternoon.

  • Flat Cel Anime style example

    Flat Cel Anime

    Clean and graphic, this look builds every figure from large unbroken fields of color.

  • Flat Color Anime Style style example

    Flat Color Anime Style

    Chalky, warm and gently nostalgic, this look mixes flat cel characters with softly brushed backgrounds.

  • Glitchy Anime Illustration style example

    Glitchy Anime Illustration

    Dim, digital and slightly broken, this look drenches scenes in midnight blue and charcoal, then cuts through with cyan, magenta and violet.

  • Hand-Drawn Anime Background style example

    Hand-Drawn Anime Background

    Patient and pastoral, this look is all about the land.

  • Hand-Drawn Anime Illustration style example

    Hand-Drawn Anime Illustration

    Warm and bookish, this look fills rooms with papers, plants and wooden furniture washed in sunlight.

  • Honeyed Gouache Interiors style example

    Honeyed Gouache Interiors

    Rich, amber and storybook-dense, this look paints shops, studies and kitchens in late-afternoon gold.

  • Hongkong 90s Style style example

    Hongkong 90s Style

    Sun-faded and intimate, this look borrows the feel of an illustrated drama printed in a late-1990s city magazine.

  • Impressionistic Anime Style style example

    Impressionistic Anime Style

    Sunny, loose and a little unfinished, this look paints midday scenes with watercolor edges that feather and break.

  • Indigo Night City Cel style example

    Indigo Night City Cel

    A nocturnal city look with the calm confidence of classic theatrical anime.

  • Lived-In Dusk Watercolour Anime style example

    Lived-In Dusk Watercolour Anime

    A soft, lived-in look where watercolor backgrounds meet tidy character cels.

  • Modern Anime Style style example

    Modern Anime Style

    The contemporary television default: bright, clean and easy to watch.

  • Modern simple anime style example

    Modern simple anime

    Soft, cozy and deliberately simple, this look uses big flat fills and a single soft shading step.

  • Modern Ukiyo-e Illustration style example

    Modern Ukiyo-e Illustration

    A fresh, bright take on traditional woodblock prints.

  • Neo-Anime Illustration style example

    Neo-Anime Illustration

    Glowing and romantic, this is a 1980s cel look turned up to candy strength.

  • Neo-Tokyo Anime Portrait style example

    Neo-Tokyo Anime Portrait

    Cool, spacious and nocturnal, this look bathes a near-future city in indigo and cyan.

  • Painterly Anime Landscape style example

    Painterly Anime Landscape

    Chalky, hazy and handmade, this look reads like gouache and dry pastel on textured paper.

  • Painterly Anime purple and green style example

    Painterly Anime purple and green

    Cool, airy and quietly unusual, this look pairs mint and jade greens with flat violet shadows on a cream-paper ground.

  • Painterly Anime Style style example

    Painterly Anime Style

    Earthy and weathered, this look is at home among old stone, dusty paths and ruins.

  • Painterly cartoon style example

    Painterly cartoon

    Delicate and papery, this look combines soft watercolor blooms with hatching in dry colored pencil.

  • Pastel Cel Retro Anime style example

    Pastel Cel Retro Anime

    Glossy and nostalgic, this look recalls late-1980s television cels with candy pastels and deep clean blacks.

  • Pixel Art Animation Style style example

    Pixel Art Animation Style

    A miniature world seen from a high isometric game camera.

  • Rainy Lantern Dusk Anime style example

    Rainy Lantern Dusk Anime

    Wet, glowing and atmospheric, this look sets scenes at dusk in the rain.

  • Rough Sketch Anime style example

    Rough Sketch Anime

    Raw, bold and energetic, this look pairs wiry, scratchy pencil lines with vast flat areas of hot orange or blue-green.

  • Scenic Blossom Daylight Anime style example

    Scenic Blossom Daylight Anime

    Bright, crisp and scenic, this look opens onto wide landscapes in full bloom.

  • Soft Daylight Modern Anime style example

    Soft Daylight Modern Anime

    Calm and restrained, this is the modern television look with the saturation turned down.

  • Stylized Anime Illustration style example

    Stylized Anime Illustration

    Light, clean and breezy, this look has the calm of a sunny apartment.

  • Stylized Character Animation style example

    Stylized Character Animation

    Warm firelight against cool teal shadow gives this look a strong complementary split and a sense of story.

  • Stylized Digital anime style example

    Stylized Digital anime

    Warm, leafy and storybook-soft, this look sits under a pale atmospheric wash.

  • Sun-Faded Gouache Wash style example

    Sun-Faded Gouache Wash

    Gentle and faded, as if left in a sunny window for a few summers.

  • Sunlit Seaside Cel Animation style example

    Sunlit Seaside Cel Animation

    Warm, sunny and salt-aired, this look belongs to harbor towns and hillside streets.

  • Traditional 2D Animation style example

    Traditional 2D Animation

    Quiet and handmade, this look recalls feature animation painted on paper.

  • Turquoise and Peach Light Split style example

    Turquoise and Peach Light Split

    Graphic and bold, this look splits every frame into turquoise shadow and peach-pink light.

  • Vintage Anime Studio style example

    Vintage Anime Studio

    Dense, dark and textural, this look evokes the prestige theatrical cels of the late 1980s and 1990s.

  • Vintage Manga Illustration style example

    Vintage Manga Illustration

    Bold and sunlit, this look recalls the color covers of late-century manga.

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