Cartoon styles

Bold, readable character looks built on simple shapes and strong outlines, from retro broadcast cartoons to modern flat animation.

  • 3D cartoon style example

    3D cartoon

    A quiet, hushed kind of computer-animated world.

  • 60s Cartoon style style example

    60s Cartoon style

    Think of a mid-century animated feature where the backgrounds were painted by hand and the characters inked on clear cels over them.

  • 90s Cartoon style example

    90s Cartoon

    This is the after-school television cartoon of the nineties, painted rather than vector-clean.

  • Adult Cartoon Comedies style example

    Adult Cartoon Comedies

    The look of an animated comedy for grown-ups: clean, readable, and just grubby enough to be funny.

  • Airy Watercolour Anime Illustration style example

    Airy Watercolour Anime Illustration

    Bright, clean and full of morning air.

  • Azure Coast Lantern Cartoon style example

    Azure Coast Lantern Cartoon

    A cheerful seaside town in the glow of evening.

  • Bold Line Cartoon style example

    Bold Line Cartoon

    Loud, happy and unmistakably hand drawn.

  • Buttercream Sky Gouache Cartoon style example

    Buttercream Sky Gouache Cartoon

    Sweet, sunny and soft as powder.

  • Cartoon Illustration Style style example

    Cartoon Illustration Style

    A cozy, editorial kind of cartoon, the sort you might find illustrating a thoughtful children's book or a magazine column.

  • Comic Book cartoon style example

    Comic Book cartoon

    Dramatic, heavily inked and bathed in a hot sunset.

  • Cute Doodle Illustration style example

    Cute Doodle Illustration

    Sweet, round and sticker-simple.

  • Delicate Anime Illustration style example

    Delicate Anime Illustration

    Ornate and finely drawn, with vermilion red running through almost everything.

  • Digital Comic Art style example

    Digital Comic Art

    Polished, colorful and built for a vertical scroll.

  • Golden Backlit Storybook Painting style example

    Golden Backlit Storybook Painting

    Glowing, golden and generous.

  • Golden Hour Coral Sky Anime style example

    Golden Hour Coral Sky Anime

    A single moment of late sun, held and polished.

  • Graphic Anime Pop Art style example

    Graphic Anime Pop Art

    Anime meets pop poster.

  • Hand-Drawn Anime Portraiture style example

    Hand-Drawn Anime Portraiture

    Earthy, grounded and quietly cinematic, like a frame from a hand-painted animated feature.

  • Handmade Yarn Storybook style example

    Handmade Yarn Storybook

    A world knitted, felted and carved by hand.

  • Lantern-Lit Twilight Cel Era style example

    Lantern-Lit Twilight Cel Era

    Evening in an old harbor town, painted by hand.

  • Mediterranean Poster Colour Cel style example

    Mediterranean Poster Colour Cel

    A seaside summer from a classic theatrical anime.

  • Modern Anime Illustration style example

    Modern Anime Illustration

    The bright, sunlit look of contemporary anime at its most optimistic.

  • Modern Cartoon Illustration style example

    Modern Cartoon Illustration

    Nighttime, neon and full of attitude.

  • Modern Comic Cartoon style example

    Modern Comic Cartoon

    Calm, clean and quietly sophisticated.

  • Neo-Noir Anime Illustration style example

    Neo-Noir Anime Illustration

    Moody, patient and full of empty space.

  • Neon Melancholy style example

    Neon Melancholy

    A city at dusk, lonely and lovely at once.

  • Old Cartoon style style example

    Old Cartoon style

    Familiar, friendly and instantly readable, the look of a long-running animated family sitcom on broadcast television.

  • Painterly Anime Illustration style example

    Painterly Anime Illustration

    Rich, dark and romantic, painted in wine, crimson, aubergine and indigo.

  • Retro anime illustration style example

    Retro anime illustration

    Classic eighties theatrical anime, sharp and confident.

  • Retro Cartoon Style style example

    Retro Cartoon Style

    Soft, homespun and endearingly small.

  • Retro Riviera style example

    Retro Riviera

    Elegant, sun-warmed and unhurried.

  • Retro-futuristic Anime Illustration style example

    Retro-futuristic Anime Illustration

    A sunny utopia imagined decades ago.

  • Soft Watercolor Anime style example

    Soft Watercolor Anime

    Dreamy, gentle and soaked in soft washes.

  • Stop-Motion Animation Clay Model style example

    Stop-Motion Animation Clay Model

    Handmade and charming, as if built on a tabletop and shot one frame at a time.

  • storyboard, concept style example

    storyboard, concept

    The working look of a film's art department: fast, confident and built to communicate.

  • Stylized 2D Animation style example

    Stylized 2D Animation

    The balanced, all-purpose finish of a hand-drawn animated feature.

  • Stylized Cartoon Illustration style example

    Stylized Cartoon Illustration

    A richly painted fantasy storybook.

  • Stylized Character Cartoon style example

    Stylized Character Cartoon

    Clean, gentle and very polished.

  • Stylized Character Illustration style example

    Stylized Character Illustration

    Muted, painterly and grounded, like concept art for an animated feature still in development.

  • Traditional Anime Illustration style example

    Traditional Anime Illustration

    Pastoral, warm and lovingly hand painted.

  • Twilight Ink Retro Anime style example

    Twilight Ink Retro Anime

    Retro anime poster art at twilight: a huge moon or low sun, a sky banded in cobalt, coral and hot pink, and dense black ink holding it all together.

  • Whimsical Cartoon style example

    Whimsical Cartoon

    Busy, bright and full of small jokes.

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