How to “Anime-tize” an image

by Rinn, January 2, 2007 posted in Graphics

This tutorial will explain how to take an image and give it an anime-like style. “Anime-tize” it!

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15 Responses to “How to “Anime-tize” an image”

1. Anonymos Says:
   January 9th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

   Aaah! An Alien o.o



2. dep Says:
   January 10th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

   aka. “How to many an otherwise adorable asian chick creepy-looking”



3. Rob Says:
   January 11th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

   Seriously, she’s left cute, missed anime, and hit gross.

   You gave her:
   Age lines under eyes - yes, they were there, but you made contrast
   Her eyes are bug-eyed - humans look normal, bugs look 3d, anime looks flat
   The lighting on her face no longer matches the other parts of her body - especially neck.

   You need to destroy the gradients, not simply amplify them, make them look flat. The idea in cartoon characters is that you have a limited palette (fewer colors = fewer inks = cheaper) - Typically detailed backgrounds (you only print them once) and shapes.

   It’s a cool-idea - especially if you can step-it out for new-bies, but work it out a bit more.
   Play with the idea of adding a layer and painting shapes on it.
   Or, using some of the built-in filters.
   Apply your face technique to the whole of the image.
   Try to get each portion down to about 5 colors and the whole girl in as few as possible.



4. nucleocide Says:
   January 13th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   Wow, way to take a hot girl and make her freaky.



5. Jason Says:
   January 24th, 2007 at 5:15 am

   I’m not sure what everyone is talking about here. I think it looks awesome for the steps that it was done in. Way to go on this one.



6. Dame Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 3:10 am

   Great!



7. Stefan Says:
   February 20th, 2007 at 10:29 am

   Creepy Oo But nice.



8. Amazing photoshop technique part 2 - DesignersTalk Says:
   May 14th, 2007 at 5:00 am

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9. Edward Says:
   May 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

   freaky but cool. going to use it tonight.



10. Kenneth Dreyer Says:
    June 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    I don’t see anything..



11. vicky Says:
    June 14th, 2007 at 3:58 am

    hiiiiiii



12. jackson123r Says:
    June 30th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    There are already a number of so-called iPhone applications in beta stages that you can test on supported browsers like Safari, IE7 and Firefox

    www.mp4-converter.net/zune-converter/



13. pIXIEsTIKaDDICTION1213 Says:
    August 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Uhm…. It’s a good way to make the girl look freaky….
    If she were to really look like anime….
    1. Her head would be pointy looking and a little more square.
    2. Her body would also be pointy looking.
    3. Her torso would be shorter and skinnier.
    4. Her legs would be longer and skinnier.
    5. Hey eyes would be of different proportions.
    6. Her boobs would be bigger [[Seriously. Go compare a normal drawing to some manga.]]
    7. Her hair would be a bit funkier and not as close to her scalp.
    8. And the colors and shadows of her would be flat.

    So yeah…. Give it another try.



14. pIXIEsTIKaDDICTION1213 Says:
    August 15th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Oh yeah and the anime facial proportions are not lower down! They are in the exact center of an anime person’s head, just as ours are! It only appears that way because their mouths are lower, their noses are smaller, and their hairlines tend to be high up and they have really big hair!



15. kara Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    I reckon its really good apart from her left eyebrow(when we look at it its the right eyebrow) It’s a very good attempt to make her anime-looking. What ‘pIXIEsTIKaDDICTION1213′ says may be true, but its true for 2D images and because you used a 3D image, it changes, am i right? plus i’ve read a lot of manga and anime and the 8 rules pIXIEsTIKaDDICTION1213 gave you do not apply to all of them. Try reading more realistic and now manga for example, Yamato nadeshiko shichi henge. good manga X3

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