Ever wondered what your favorite anime character would look like in the real world? With Nano Banana Pro 🍌, we can now bridge the gap between 2D and 3D with stunning realism.
This guide provides a structured prompt designed to transform anime visuals into photorealistic cosplay-style portraits using Nano Banana Pro's advanced capabilities while preserving the original character's essence.
Quick Start
- Open the Gemini app, select Nano Banana Pro 🍌, and upload your anime character image.
- Paste the following structured prompt.
V3
{
"name": "anime_to_life",
"task": "User uploads an anime or art or 3D rendering image, the AI will completely generate a photorealistic photograph featuring the same character in the same background. Character and environment both transformed to photorealistic style yet retaining original features.",
"pre_processing": {
"step_1": "Analyze input image features",
"step_2": "Use SEARCH to fully identify the character: retrieve name, source material, canonical ethnicity, and detailed appearance traits (hair, eyes, clothing, accessories)",
"step_3": "Apply retrieved data to the subject parameters below"
},
"subject": "Real person cosplayer (Russian or Japanese ethnicity based on character identity), pretty appearance with delicate and refined idol-style makeup, anime-inspired facial features, identical physique, eye color, clothing, hair and props to the original character",
"action": "Exact match of original pose, position, and facial expression",
"environment": "The original background shall be rendered in a realistic style matching the source image",
"lighting": "Photorealistic lighting matching the source image's mood and direction",
"camera": "Identical framing and camera angle to the uploaded image, photorealistic lens characteristics",
"style": "Photorealistic photography, high fidelity, 8k, realistic skin texture, authentic fabric details, cosplay photography style",
"negative_constraint": "The generated image must NOT look like art, anime, CGI, 3D rendering, drawing, or painting. It must be a photorealistic photograph.",
"final_step": "GENERATE the image"
}
V2
The uploaded image is an anime or art or 3D rendering, you will create a photorealistic photograph featuring the same character in the same background.
In the to be generated photo graph:
Important requirements you must follow and think twice before generating:
- **The character turns to a real person cosplayer, cosplaying the character in the uploaded image.**
- **The cosplayer must have the same physique, posture, expression, pose, position, props, eye color, and clothing as the original character**
- The facial features should retain an anime-inspired aesthetic—like those of a cosplayer idol with refined makeup and an elegant appearance.
- The cosplayer's ethnicity should either be Russian or Japanese, determine by identify the character in the original image with search.
- **The photograph shall match the angle and framing of the uploaded image**
- The background is the same as it is the original image however rendered in a realistic style.
V1
Create a photorealistic photograph of a real life human cosplaying as the uploaded anime character. The human has the exact same physique, posture, pose, position, props and clothes of the uploaded anime character. The photograph has the same angle and framing of the uploaded image. The photograph has the same environment features but in realistic style. The character’s facial features still need to conform to the aesthetics of anime, as the most beautiful cosplayer idol. Delicate makeup. Determine the ethnicity based on the character.
Try it out with different characters to see how the AI interprets their unique features in a real-world context.
