Chibi character maker

Describing for chibi

Focus on the few things that survive the shrink: hair colour and shape, eye colour, one outfit colour, one accessory. Fine details like embroidery or jewellery disappear at chibi scale, so skip them. Expressions carry the character, so write them into scene prompts: "beaming", "pouting", "sparkly-eyed", "sweat-drop nervous".

Sticker and emote sets

Render square scenes on a plain background, one emotion each: happy, sad, angry, surprised, love, sleepy, thumbs-up, facepalm. Rough quality is fine for drafts; Clean for the final set. Upscale the keepers and crop in your editor. Because the references ride along, all eight stickers look like the same character rather than eight cousins.

For a story or chat series, add props: "holding a giant pencil", "hiding under a blanket", "carrying a boba tea bigger than its head".

Chibi clips

Chibi motion is bouncy and simple. Animate a sticker-style render with "bounces twice and waves", "nods with sparkles", "spins around once". Short clips (3–4 seconds) at 720p make good animated reactions and loop cleanly.

From full-size to chibi and back

If you already have a character in another style, you can set the style label to chibi and render a scene; the face and outfit carry over in simplified form. Many people keep a main character and a chibi companion character so each stays sharp with its own references.

Expressions that read at icon size

At 64 pixels, subtle emotions vanish. Push them: closed-eye smiles, giant tears, swirly eyes, a sweat drop, cat mouths, sparkles. Write those cues into each sticker prompt. Keep the pose symmetrical and centred so the crop is easy. A plain white or single-colour background separates cleanly. Render the full set at Rough first to decide which emotions you actually need, then redo the final eight at Clean. The same references keep every sticker on-model.

If you plan an animated version of a sticker, render it first as a still, then animate it from the Videos tab; the still becomes the opening image.

Names help here as well: a sticker set with eight files called "happy", "sad", "angry" and so on is easier to use in a chat app than eight files named by timestamp. Put the emotion first in each prompt so the result grid reads the same way.