Retro PC-88 8-Bit Anime Portrait

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gpt-image-2 · 6/4/2026

People & Portraits›Identity & transformation›Photo transformation

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Convert the attached portrait photo into anime artwork while preserving recognizability.

Preserve:

- facial proportions
- hairstyle silhouette
- expression
- recognizability
- clothing silhouette

PC-88 RGB rules:

- use only 8-color RGB palette
- black, blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
- no gradients
- no antialiasing
- strong dithering
- checkerboard shading
- 640x200 appearance
- large color blocks
- hard outlines
- slight CRT feeling

Character rendering:

- simplified facial construction
- reduce facial detail lines
- large hair highlight areas
- fewer shading layers
- preserve likeness over redesign

Composition:

- character-focused
- simple supporting background
- empty space around character
- 4:3 feeling

Avoid:

- game UI
- dialogue boxes
- excessive background density
- modern anime rendering

Goal:

Authentic late-1980s Japanese PC88 character artwork while preserving the original person.

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How to use this prompt

Copy the prompt and paste it into GPT Image 2. Keep the composition, lighting and style terms as written — they are what produced this result. Swap the subject or scene details to make it yours, keep the aspect ratio, and attach the reference images the prompt mentions if any. Regenerate two or three times; the strongest version is usually not the first.