Upload a photo · Keep the identity cues · Generate in one pass
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.
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.
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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
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 refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy).
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.
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.
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.
The same prompt on a different source photo, to see which parts are the style and which parts are the person.
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 studioThree things worth stating outright. Leave them vague and the model renders a generic character that happens to share your haircut.
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.
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.
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.
Three places this render earns its keep.
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.
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.
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.
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 refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy).
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.
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Use one balance across every supported image and video model — eleven of them today, listed below — and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
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 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 211 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 473. A full 30s take runs ≈ 1,260 at 480p and ≈ 2,835 at 720p. Supplying a reference clip lowers the per-second rate. |
| 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. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest Seedance tier. 5s 720p ≈ 154 credits, 5s 480p ≈ 72 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 27 credits silent, ≈ 53 with audio; 1080p ≈ 57 and ≈ 113. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second (Lite tier). About 45 credits at 720p and 53 at 1080p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 105 credits silent, ≈ 150 with audio; 1080p ≈ 135 and ≈ 203. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 158 credits. |
| 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. A flat 8 credits per image at every resolution. Start here to test. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost image model here. About 3 credits per 1K image, 6 at 2K, 12 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — about 8 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Three tools that take the same photo and change what you are made of.
One clear photo and the four or five things that make you recognisable. The render is one pass.
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
