Turn a Picture into EmotesA selfie, a drawing or a mascot.

One clear front view does most of the work. A side view and a full-body picture help the model understand hair and outfit, but they are optional. PNG, JPG or WEBP, up to 10 MB each, up to three pictures.

• Good: one person or one character, face clearly visible, even light, simple background.
• Okay: a phone selfie, a pencil sketch photographed flat, an old avatar.
• Avoid: group photos, tiny faces, heavy filters, screenshots of someone else’s character.

You must own the picture or have permission, and you must not upload another real person without their consent. That’s a checkbox on the form and a rule in our terms.

Keep my style is the default: the model follows your picture’s lines and colors. If you upload a photo and want a cartoon, pick Chibi cartoon, Anime, Pixel art, 3D toy or Flat sticker. The style is applied once, on the character sheet, and then held for every emote.

A photo turned into a chibi works surprisingly well as an emote, because big heads and simple shapes read at 28 px. A detailed realistic photo emote usually doesn’t.

1. 1
   Sheet

   We draw a 2K character sheet: three views and six expressions (about 30–60 seconds, 2 credits).

2. 2
   Confirm

   You check it. If the face or colors are off, redo it. When it looks right, lock it.

3. 3
   Emotes

   Pick up to 8 moves. Each becomes an 8-frame loop (1 credit each).

4. 4
   Download

   Slice, size and check in your browser; download one zip.

Your pictures are copied into your character so you can make more later. The original uploads are deleted after 2 days; the character’s copies stay until you delete the character.

• A selfie with a plain wall behind you → Chibi cartoon. Big head, your hair and glasses, your hoodie color. The most popular route for streamers who show their face.
• A pencil sketch of your mascot, photographed flat → Keep my style. The model cleans the lines and keeps the hand-drawn feel; the sample on this page started as one.
• An old avatar PNG → Flat sticker. Bold outlines and solid colors make a tired avatar work as emotes.

Whatever you upload, the character sheet is your checkpoint. It costs 2 credits, comes back in under a minute, and you can redo it until it looks like the picture. Only after you lock it does anything else get made.

By hand, a picture becomes an emote through a background remover, a crop, an outline effect, a resize to three sizes, and an export that may or may not be small enough. For an animated emote, add drawing or warping eight frames. Here you upload once, confirm the sheet, choose moves, and the cutting, outlining, sizing and checking happen automatically. You still decide what looks right; you just don’t push pixels.

Very dark or very busy pictures give weaker sheets. Glasses, piercings and logos on clothing are where drift shows up first. And remember that a photo-real emote of yourself may be lovely at 112 px and unreadable at 28 — preview it in the fake chat line before you upload it anywhere.