Upload a photo · Keep the identity cues · Generate in one pass
Pixar Filter for Photos
Upload one photo and it comes back as a stylised 3D character: a rounded head, big expressive eyes, soft skin shading with a warm glow, sculpted hair. The part that decides whether it works is not the style — it is whether your beard, your glasses, your hair colour and the jumper you had on all survive the trip. That is what this page is built around.
Pixar Filter for Photos
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
One studio portrait, one 3D character
Both frames come from our own run on this page's model while building it. Drag the divider: the ginger beard, the black-framed glasses and the burgundy jumper all survive, which is the only test that matters. Every output is AI-generated, so your render varies with your photo and your prompt — read this as what the tool can hold, not a fixed result.
Drag to compare before and after
What is a Pixar filter?
It is the household name for one look: the 3D-animated feature-film character. Rounded proportions, oversized eyes with visible highlights, smooth skin that glows slightly where light passes through it, hair modelled as sculpted shapes rather than strands.
Two different things get sold under that name. One drops your face onto a studio's existing character. The other restyles you — your bone structure, your hair, your expression — into that rendering style, and the result is a character that does not exist anywhere else. This page does the second. We do not generate studio-owned characters, and a photo of you was never anyone's intellectual property.
Creative engine
How a run works
Upload the photo, keep the preset prompt or name your own identity cues, pick the shape. The credit estimate shows before you generate and a failed run is never charged.
Identity cues do the work
Glasses, facial hair, a specific hair colour, the colour of your top. Name them in the prompt and the render keeps them; leave them out and you get a handsome stranger.
A clear, front-facing photo wins
Even light and a visible face give the model the geometry it needs. Heavy shadow, sunglasses or a three-quarter turn all cost resemblance before the style is even applied.
It is a render, not a paint-over
The output is generated from scratch in the style, so skin, hair and fabric are re-lit rather than filtered. That is why it holds up at full size instead of falling apart on close inspection.
For the same trick in other materials, the muppet generator rebuilds you in felt and the figurine generator turns you into a boxed collectible; a caricature exaggerates the likeness instead of re-rendering it.
What changed on a different face
The same prompt on a different source photo, to see which parts are the style and which parts are the person.
Long wavy hair reads as sculpted shapes
On the second source photo the hair came back as smooth modelled strands with soft highlights rather than individual hairs — that is the style working as intended, and it is also where a wispy or very fine hairstyle loses the most detail. The teal top, the brown hair and the open smile all carried across unchanged.
Open the image studioHow to keep the resemblance
Three things worth stating outright. Leave them vague and the model renders a generic character that happens to share your haircut.
- 01
List what makes you recognisable
Write it plainly: ginger beard, black-framed glasses, burgundy jumper. Those four or five nouns are what people identify you by, and naming them is the difference between your character and a character.
- 02
Start from a well-lit, front-facing photo
The model can only keep what it can see. An evenly lit face pointed at the camera gives it the bone structure; a dim three-quarter shot makes it guess, and it guesses generically.
- 03
Ask for a render, not a drawing
Say 3D animation render with soft subsurface shading. Left open, the model drifts toward a flat 2D cartoon, which is a different look entirely and reads as cheaper.
Where the character actually goes
Three places this render earns its keep.
Profile pictures
A 3D character version of you is recognisable at 40 pixels and does not date the way a selfie does — the most common reason people run this at all.
Family and group sets
Run everyone in the house through the same prompt and you get a cast that looks like it came from one film, which is how these end up printed or framed.
Kids' party and card art
A child rendered as the hero of their own animated film is an invitation, a birthday card or a wall print — the same job the birthday photoshoot generator does in a photographic register.
Questions before you upload
What it keeps, what it will not do, and what a run costs.
That depends more on your photo and prompt than on the model. Front-facing, evenly lit, and with your identity cues named in words — hair colour, facial hair, glasses, the colour of your top — the resemblance holds. Our own two runs kept all four cues; both are on this page.
No, and that is deliberate. This renders you as a new character in the 3D-animation style; it does not generate studio-owned characters or scenes. The style is not owned by anyone — the specific characters are, and pictures of them are not what this is for.
The style suits children particularly well, since rounded proportions are already part of the look. Animals work too, though for a pet the [pet portrait generator](/image/ai-pet-portrait-generator) has prompts built around fur and breed.
Because the prompt left the rendering style open. Add 3D animation render, soft subsurface skin shading, cinematic key light and it moves back to sculpted volumes. A flat drawing is a 2D cartoonizer's output, not this one's.
A 3:4 portrait suits a single face and is what both examples here used. Square works better if the render is going straight to a profile picture, since it will be cropped to a circle anyway.
Free credits come with the account and cover the first attempts. After that each render costs credits like any image, the estimate for your model and size appears in the generator before you start, and a failed run is never charged.
Kavel pricing — pay only for what you generate
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
Starter
What's included
- 33,500 credits per year
- Works with Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video
- Cost preview before you generate
- Generation history
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Creator
What's included
- 89,700 credits per year
- Access to Seedance 2.0, Fast, and Mini
- Nano Banana 2 generation and editing
- Priority credit top-ups
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Studio
What's included
- 166,800 credits per year
- Built for high-volume Kavel generation
- Plenty of room for 4K rendering
- Available across the supported models
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Credit packs
One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
Credit Pack 1500
What's included
- 1,500 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
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Credit Pack 3600
What's included
- 3,600 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
- Use for both video and image generation
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Credit Pack 9000
What's included
- 9,000 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Handy for Seedance 2.0 final renders
- Valid for 365 days
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Use one balance across the supported image and video models (Nano Banana 2 / Nano Banana Pro / Seedance 2 / Veo 3.1), and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
What each model costs in credits
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. Mini is cheaper still. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video (Lite). About 34 credits at 1080p, about 23 at 720p. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. About 8 credits per image. Start here to test. |
Other ways to rebuild yourself
Three tools that take the same photo and change what you are made of.
See your own face in the style
One clear photo and the four or five things that make you recognisable. The render is one pass.