Chibi Maker from Photo
The Chibi Maker turns one photo of you, a friend or a pet into a square chibi: a big head, a tiny body and your own hair and clothes.
- Square picture
- 1K · 2K · 4K, from 1 credit
- PNG (4K as JPG)
- About a minute
- Kept 30 days
AI-generated results may change details of markings, ears or accessories and are not guaranteed to match the input photo exactly.
Start with one photo
Five photos made into chibis
A cat, a couple, a pug and two portraits, each turned into a chibi by this page with no retouching. The hair, glasses and outfit come from the photo.
What the chibi shape does to a photo
A chibi keeps what friends recognise and squeezes the rest: the head grows to about half the figure, the body shrinks under it.
The photo: a beanie, a short beard, a gray jacket. 
The chibi: the head is half of him, and the beanie, beard and jacket stay.
Chibi avatar maker and more
- Profile picture A square chibi reads well even as a tiny round avatar.
- Stickers for chats Pair it with Photo to Sticker for a cut-out chibi with a white border.
- Your pet as a chibi Fur colors and markings stay, so the chibi still looks like your cat or dog.
- Badges and keychains At 2K or 4K the chibi prints cleanly on a badge, a keychain or a card.
A chibi of you in three steps
- 1. Add one photoYou, a couple or a pet. The face matters more than the body.
- 2. Pick a size1K for an avatar; 2K or 4K to print a sticker sheet or a badge.
- 3. Download the chibiA square PNG on a plain pastel background, in your library about a minute later.
- Square picture
- 1K · 2K · 4K, from 1 credit
- PNG (4K as JPG)
- About a minute
- Kept 30 days
Photos that make the best chibi
One face, close up
A couple, both faces
A pet looking at you
Faces too small
Too dark
Blurred face
What is a chibi?
A chibi is a small, big-headed cartoon version of a person or an animal, from the cute style of Japanese manga. The Chibi Maker draws one from your photo and keeps the hair, glasses and clothes that make it you.
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Chibi is Japanese slang for a small person or a little child, close to "shorty" or "little one" in English. In manga and anime it names a way of drawing a character squashed down to two or three heads tall, with a head about as big as the rest of the body, stubby limbs and very large eyes. Fans outside Japan say chibi for the style; Japanese artists and toy makers more often call it super deformed, or SD.
Artists use the style to make a character look younger, sweeter or funnier than usual. A comic switches to chibi for a single panel when someone sulks, panics or celebrates, and fans draw chibi versions of themselves for profile pictures, stickers and keychains. Because the face is reduced to a few simple shapes, a chibi of a real person works by keeping what friends notice first: the hairstyle, the hair color, glasses and clothes.
Searches for a chibi maker hold steady through the year instead of following one viral moment, and people ask for the same thing under several names: chibi generator, chibi avatar maker and photo to chibi. This page answers all of them with one recipe that draws from your own photo, instead of asking you to assemble a character from a menu of parts.
Where super deformed came from
Big-headed, small-bodied figures have a long history in Japanese illustration, but the SD label became widely known in the 1980s, when toy makers sold super deformed versions of giant-robot characters as capsule toys and small model kits. The look moved on to video games, where tiny sprites on small screens favoured large heads, and to fan art, where it turned into a shorthand for affection: drawing someone as a chibi says you find them endearing.
Chibi proportions next to a cartoon portrait
A cartoon portrait keeps roughly real proportions and simplifies the details. A chibi changes the proportions on purpose: the head grows to fill about half of the figure, the body shrinks into a rounded shape, and the eyes become the largest feature of the face, often with two or three white highlights. The nose shrinks to a dot and the mouth to a small curve. What survives is color and silhouette, which is why a good chibi of you is recognizable from your hair and clothes even though the face has been redrawn.
A tabby cat in our test run
Before writing this page we ran the chibi prompt this recipe grew from through Nano Banana 2.1 on test photos made with AI, not photos of real people (3 November 2026). A ginger tabby cat came back with its stripes and the M-shaped mark on its forehead intact, on a plain pastel background. The recipe asks every picture for the same: keep the hair or fur pattern, the colors, the outfit and the eye color, and turn everything else into the chibi shape.
CartoonPix is independent and not affiliated with any manga publisher, animation studio, toy maker or artist. Sources: the meaning and history of chibi and super deformed from reference works on manga, search interest from our keyword research (November 2026), and our own analysis of the 3 November 2026 test runs. Updated .
What people ask before making a chibi
How does the chibi maker turn my photo into a chibi?
You upload one photo and choose a size. The model redraws the subject with a large head, a small rounded body and big eyes, keeping the hair or fur, colors and outfit of the photo, and returns one square picture.
Is there a free chibi maker here?
No. There are no free credits on CartoonPix. A 1K chibi costs 1 credit; the Starter pack is $9.99 for 20 credits, and pack credits never expire, so you can use the rest on any other cartoon style.
Can I use my chibi as a profile picture or avatar?
Yes. The picture is square, which is the shape most apps crop profile pictures to, and the large head keeps the face readable even in a small circle. 1K is enough for avatars on every common app.
Can I turn my chibi into a sticker?
The chibi comes on a plain soft background, not a transparent one. For a cut-out sticker with a white border and no background, use the Photo to Sticker page, which removes the background after the picture is drawn.
Does a chibi generator from photo work with pets?
Yes. Cats and dogs make good chibis because their markings are easy to keep: in our test run a tabby cat kept its stripes and the M on its forehead. Use a photo where the face and the fur pattern are clear.
What makes a chibi look kawaii?
Kawaii is the Japanese word for cute. In a chibi it comes from the proportions of a baby: a big round head, large eyes set low on the face, a tiny nose and mouth, and soft pastel colors with clean outlines.
Why does my chibi not look exactly like my photo?
A chibi redraws the whole face in a few simple shapes, so likeness comes from your hair, colors and clothes rather than from your exact features. Details such as earrings or patterns on clothing may change or disappear.
Is chibi the same as super deformed or SD?
They describe the same style. Chibi is the word most fans use, especially outside Japan; super deformed, shortened to SD, is the older term used by Japanese toy makers and game studios for big-headed versions of characters.
What size is a picture from the chibi maker, and can I print it?
Every chibi is square. At 1K it is about 1024 pixels on a side, enough for screens; for prints such as badges or stickers choose 2K or 4K, which give two or four times the width.