Shading & dimension
Cel-shaded anime
Anime illustration rules applied to a rendered form: clean line art, flat colour and a shadow that steps rather than fades.
What to look at
- 01Shadow stepping in one hard edge
- 02Sharp specular shapes in the hair
- 03Line art kept clean over every form
Prompts
The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.
Character prompt
Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.
cel-shaded anime game character, clean confident line art, vibrant flat colours with crisp two-tone cel shading, sharp specular highlights in the hair, expressive detailed eyes, polished anime illustration finish
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
cel-shaded anime terrain, vibrant flat colours with crisp two-tone cel shading, clean line art around forms, sharp highlight edges, clear bright skies and saturated foliage, no soft gradients
Background prompt
Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.
A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as cel-shaded anime art: clean confident line art, vibrant flat colours with crisp two-tone cel shading, sharp highlight edges and a bright saturated palette. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.
Games that made this look known
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- · DRAGON BALL FighterZ
Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.
Keep looking
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The prompts are free to take. Generating with them uses credits.