Anime Cutout AI: Lift Your Character Off the Background as a Transparent PNG

From character art to a clean PNG

1. 1

   Start with a plain background

   Generating the art in the Image Lab? Ask for a flat, plain background in a colour that appears nowhere on the character, such as mid grey behind black hair and white clothes. Busy scenery behind loose hair is the hardest thing to cut away.

2. 2

   Upload it

   Choose Image Background Remover in the control bar and upload a single JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP file of 50 MB or less. If the art is small, upscale it first: more pixels along the edge give the cutout more to work with.

3. 3

   Run the cutout

   It costs 4 credits an image, shown before you run it, and a failed run is refunded.

4. 4

   Check the edge at 200%

   Look at hair strands, the gap between arm and body, see-through parts such as veils, glasses or glow effects, and thin props like a staff or a ribbon. Then save it and keep it as PNG, because JPEG throws transparency away.

Two models: stills and short clips

• Image Background Remover

  Finds the subject without a mask and returns a transparent PNG. 4 credits an image, one image per run.

• Video Background Remover

  Separates the subject frame by frame in a 3–15 second clip. Leave the backdrop empty for a transparent background, or add an image to place behind the character. 2 credits a second, 5 seconds minimum.

Prices for every model are on AI Models.

Edges on drawn characters: what to check

• Hair: fine strands and flyaways against a busy background are where a cutout goes wrong first. A plain backdrop gives them the best chance.
• Outlines: make sure the dark line is still there all the way round. Where it has been trimmed, generate the art again with a thicker outline or a backdrop colour further from the line colour.
• Enclosed gaps: the space between an arm and the waist, or inside a loop of hair, should be transparent too. Look for small islands of the old background.
• Semi-transparent parts: veils, lenses, magic effects and soft glows can come out solid or disappear. If they matter, paint them back in your editor.

Sizes for stickers and emotes

Work large and shrink last. Cut out at full size, tidy the edge, then scale down to what the platform asks for, so the outline stays smooth.

Two published specs, as of November 2026: Discord’s developer documentation describes a custom emoji as a 128×128 image with a 256 KiB file limit, and LINE Creators Market asks for sticker images of at most 370×320 px, saved as PNG with a transparent background, 1 MB or less each, with about 10 px of space around the art. Other platforms set their own sizes, so check before you export.

Animated cutouts from video

The Video Background Remover takes clips of 3 to 15 seconds, as MP4, WebM or MOV files of 50 MB or less. Billing is 2 credits per second and never less than 5 seconds: 10 credits for the shortest clip, 30 for the longest. Without a backdrop image the background comes out transparent; check that your editor shows it. If it does not, add a plain backdrop image in a colour the character never wears and key that colour out in your editor instead.

For an animated sticker or emote, convert the clip to the format your platform accepts in a separate tool. SpicyHub AI does not export GIF or APNG.

What people make with cutouts

• Visual-novel and game sprites: one cutout per expression, laid over your own backgrounds.
• Stream overlays and channel art, with your character in a corner of the screen or over a title card.
• Thumbnails and covers that put the character in front of big title text.
• Sticker and emote sets for your own channel or server.
• Reference sheets: the extra views from Multi-Shot, cut out and lined up on one clean background.

Anime Cutout FAQ