1980s Anime Cel

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1980s Anime Cel, Painted cels, neon city glow and grain from the film print — Night city street frame·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

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The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5 and GPT Image 2. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

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Prompt

A frame from a late 1980s Japanese animated film. Hand painted cel of a character standing on a neon lit city street at night, fine confident line work, two flat shading tones only, painted background with airbrushed atmospheric haze. Sodium and neon palette, slight highlight bloom from the film print, visible 35mm grain, 4:3 frame.

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Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1024 x 768
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Two shading tones only. Modern anime uses soft gradients and it shows immediately.
2Ask for the film print, not just the animation. Grain and bloom do the aging.
3Sodium and neon together give the era its exact night palette.