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  • A clear, well-lit photo works best; the main subject should not be tiny or blurry
  • Portraits, pets, landscapes and buildings all work
  • JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 10 MB

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Studio Ghibli AI

Studio Ghibli AI for your own photo: keep your scene or pick a new setting for a hand-drawn anime still. Your first image is free, no sign-up.

Original photo: Man in his early 20s: Keep my sceneBefore
Studio Ghibli AI result: Man in his early 20s: Keep my sceneAfter

Example result. Upload your photo to make yours.

Examples

Original photo: Man in his early 20s: Keep my sceneBefore
Studio Ghibli AI result: Man in his early 20s: Keep my sceneAfter
Original photo: Woman in her early 30s: Summer meadowBefore
Studio Ghibli AI result: Woman in her early 30s: Summer meadowAfter

How to make it Studio Ghibli art style

One photo, one setting, one image. There is no prompt to write.

  1. 1

    Upload one photo

    Drop in a JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC file up to 10 MB. Portraits, pets, scenery and buildings all work, as long as the main subject is clear and not tiny or blurry.

  2. 2

    Pick a setting, add a note if you like

    Keep my scene redraws your own background. Four settings move you to a new place: a summer meadow, an enchanted forest, a seaside town or a rainy bus stop in the evening. Golden sunset keeps the place and changes the light to a warm sunset sky. The optional box takes up to 300 characters, such as a small forest spirit next to you, and is added to your request.

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    Generate and download

    Press Ghibli My Photo and the result appears beside your photo, which stays in the panel for comparison. Download saves the file as the model returned it, with no watermark from us.

Six settings for your Ghibli-style picture

Each Studio Ghibli AI image uses one setting. Pick the one you want most, because your free image covers a single result.

Keep my scene

Your own room, street or garden is redrawn in the same hand-drawn style. In our test with a photo taken at a desk, the lamp, backpack, posters and window all came back as painted versions in their places.

Summer meadow

Tall grass, wildflowers and big white clouds in a blue sky. In our test it replaced a living room completely and also added a small tabby cat that was not in the photo, so expect a few invented details.

Enchanted forest

Huge mossy trees, soft beams of sunlight and floating specks of light. It suits a quiet portrait or a pet photo that should feel like a fairy tale.

Seaside town

A sunny hillside town with red roofs, flowers on the balconies and a sparkling sea below. A good match for a travel photo or a summer portrait.

Rainy evening

A quiet country bus stop with puddles, glowing street lamps and soft rain. It turns an everyday snapshot into a calm, moody frame.

Golden sunset

Instead of naming a new place, this one lights the scene with a warm sky full of pink and orange clouds. Choose it when you want an evening glow more than a change of location.

Which AI can make Ghibli art: three ways to do it

Studio Ghibli AI art is on offer from chat apps, dedicated filter sites and this page. Here is how they differ.

This pageGeneral AI chat appsGhibli filter sites
How you ask for the lookPick a setting, the style prompt is built inDescribe the style in your own wordsOne click, one fixed look
Where the picture is setYour own scene or one of five settingsWherever you describeYour photo's own scene
Free useFirst image freeDepends on the app's planTypically a free try, then paid credits
Sign-up to startNot neededDepends on the appSome ask for a login, some don't

What the Studio Ghibli AI trend is

In March 2025 people began uploading photos to ChatGPT's new image model and asking for the look of Studio Ghibli films. The pictures spread across social media, news sites explained the trend, and dedicated Ghibli filter sites followed. That is what most people mean by Studio Ghibli AI today: a real photo redrawn in that hand-drawn anime look by a general AI image model.

The trend also drew criticism. Animators and fans argue that copying a studio's hand-drawn style with AI, without its consent, devalues human work, and the debate about style imitation is still open. If that matters to you, it is worth knowing before you upload.

Ghibli-style, not Studio Ghibli

This page is not affiliated with or approved by Studio Ghibli. It runs Google's Gemini image model (Nano Banana 2) with a fixed prompt. The model is told to draw a 2D film still inspired by classic hand-drawn Japanese animation: soft gouache-and-watercolor backgrounds, warm natural colors, gentle cel shading and clean line art. It is told not to make a 3D render or a photo filter, and not to add text, borders or a watermark.

We don't redraw film characters or rebuild scenes from the films. The other settings are generic places, a meadow, a forest, a seaside town and a rainy bus stop, plus Golden sunset, which only changes the light, so the picture is about your photo, not someone else's movie.

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Frequently asked questions

This page can't answer for the studio, and nothing on it comes from Studio Ghibli. The Ghibli-style pictures from the 2025 trend, including the ones made here, come from general AI image models such as GPT-4o or Google's Gemini model. This site is not affiliated with or approved by Studio Ghibli.

In ChatGPT you upload a photo and describe the Ghibli look in your own words. This page is a separate tool, not ChatGPT. You upload a photo, pick a setting and press Ghibli My Photo, and the style prompt is already written for you, with no chat and no account.

General image models can, such as GPT-4o in ChatGPT, and so can dedicated Ghibli filter sites built on models like it. This Studio Ghibli AI page uses Google's Gemini image model (Nano Banana 2) with a fixed style prompt, so you get the look without writing a prompt.

No. The tool makes one still image per run. There is no video, animated GIF or batch option, and no app or API.

Your first Studio Ghibli AI image is free, across the whole site, with no sign-up and no credit card. After one image the tool stops, and there are no paid plans or credits to buy yet. A run that fails isn't counted.

The model is told to keep every person and pet recognizable, with the same hairstyle, hair color, clothing, pose and expression, and to keep their place in the frame. In our two test portraits it kept the hair, facial hair and clothes. It is an AI image, so compare it with your photo, since nothing checks the likeness.

Yes. Pets, scenery and buildings all work when the main subject is clear and not tiny or blurry. With Keep my scene a street or garden is redrawn in place, while Enchanted forest gives a dog or cat a mossy backdrop.

Your photo is only used to create your artwork and is never used to train AI models. Before upload your browser converts HEIC to JPEG and resizes and compresses the photo. The image itself is made on the server by our AI provider. Upload only photos of yourself or of people who agreed, and nobody under 18.

From our side the image is yours to use, personally or commercially, as long as the use is lawful. Some countries give no copyright to purely AI-made images, and someone else may get a similar result. The style gives you no right to the Studio Ghibli name or its characters.

Not on the same result. A new setting or note needs a new run, which counts as another image. The result also stays only on the page: refresh or leave and it is gone, so download it first.