Turn yourself into an anime comic

Yes, and as a whole story rather than one portrait. Comicpix takes one photo of you and a name, draws you in the anime style and tells a 12-page story with you as the main character, which you read online or download as a PDF.

The cover comes first: it is drawn in about a minute and the preview is free, so you see how you look in anime before deciding. The full 12 pages need a monthly plan, and you can cancel online. The button on this page preselects Anime; the rest is a photo, a name and a story.

The anime style in Comicpix is a vibrant illustration with clean cel shading, luminous color, expressive eyes and soft cinematic lighting. A photo-to-anime converter gives you one picture in that look. Comicpix gives you a character: your face drawn in the anime style on the cover, then a 12-page story around that character, with scenes, captions and speech balloons.

You decide what happens. Pick a ready story or write your own in a few sentences; ideas from our anime templates include two classmates who keep swapping notebooks until the notes tell a love story, rival bakers forced to team up for a citywide cake contest, and a blackout that traps two people on a rooftop with candles and one long story to tell.

If all you want is a single anime portrait, Comicpix is the wrong tool: it always draws a comic. The photo to comic page explains the difference between a filter and a 12-page comic, with photo tips.

On your own: one photo of yourself and you are the lead, in any story you pick or write. The Turkish and Spanish anime examples lower on this page are real Comicpix output too, drawn with the product’s generators.

The two of you: “The Umbrella Swap” was made from two photos and runs in six beats: identical umbrellas swapped in a rainy café doorway; a name tag that leads to an awkward, funny return; coincidences across the city, from a bookstore to a rooftop garden; a quiet misunderstanding about moving away; a run through the rain back to the café; and two umbrellas hanging side by side at home. For an anniversary version, see the personalized comic book for couples page.

Your pet: “The Sock Bandit” stars a golden retriever who follows a trail of fluff to a raccoon family’s sock nest, and one photo of your dog or cat is enough to make your pet the hero. Pet story starters from that template: a beach adventure as captain of the seagulls, a secret kingdom of talking pets under the backyard tree, a treat heist against a delivery drone, the Neighborhood Pet Olympics against a very fast squirrel.