Modern Anime Key Visual

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Modern Anime Key Visual, A crowded frame, hard rim light and a character mid reaction — Crowd scene, rim light·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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 Midjourney, 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.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A modern anime key visual: a young character in an orange jacket caught mid reaction in the foreground, hands raised, with a dense crowd and neon signage stacked behind them. Digital cel shading with sharp hard edged shadow shapes, hard rim light picking the figure out of the dark, saturated accent colours against a cool base palette. Detail concentrated around the face and thinning outward, cinematic framing, slight film grain.

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

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

Tips

1Hard edged shadow shapes, not soft gradients. That is what makes it cel rather than painterly.
2Detail concentrated at the focal point keeps a busy frame readable.
3Rim light is doing the separation. Name it.