Anime OC Maker
110 drawn parts, any colour you like, and a PNG up to 2048 pixels with a transparent background. No login, no watermark.
How the anime OC maker works
Pick a category from the row of tabs, tap a part, and the portrait updates immediately. There are 110 drawn parts across thirteen layers — face shape, ears, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, marks, back hair, bangs, hair accessories, glasses, outfit and background — and six colour slots that accept any hex value you like. Nothing is generated by a model and nothing is fetched from a server, so the same choices always produce the same character, pixel for pixel.
Make an OC in three steps
1. Find a silhouette
Start with hair. It is the single biggest part of how a character reads, so choose the back hair and bangs first and let everything else follow. If nothing comes to mind, press Randomise a few times: the layers redraw from the background up and you will usually land on something worth keeping within three or four rolls. When one part is right, open its tab and press Lock this while randomising — locked categories survive every future reroll.
2. Set the colours
Each slot has a hand-picked swatch rail plus a full colour picker and a hex field. Hair and hair shine are separate slots, which is what makes two-tone hair, dyed tips and highlighted fringes possible. If you want the eyes to follow the hair while you experiment, tick Match eye colour to hair. Any colour you want to protect from a reroll gets a Keep toggle of its own.
3. Give them a name and a story
Open the name panel and add a name, pronouns, three traits and a one-line bio. If you are stuck, Suggest a name, traits and bio draws from more than a hundred names across Japanese, Korean, Western and fantasy sets, each with its meaning, and pairs them with traits that match the character's vibe rather than a random word list. All of it is exported on the character card.
What this does that most character makers do not
Randomise cannot destroy your work
Undo and redo go back fifty steps and respond to Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z. A reroll is a single history entry, so one undo restores the whole character. Most makers treat randomise as a one-way door; if you have ever lost a face you liked to a stray tap, that is the reason.
Saving and sharing are free and need no account
Your work in progress is kept in this browser automatically. Copy share link encodes the entire character — every part, every colour, the locks, the name and the bio — into the URL, so sending that link to a friend opens your exact character on their screen, editable. No sign-up, no upload, no expiry.
Real colour control, not sixteen presets
A fixed palette per part is the usual limit in this kind of tool, and it is why so many OCs end up looking related. Here every slot takes any hex value, so a specific shade from a reference image or a brand palette goes straight in.
Export at the size you actually need
512 for a forum avatar, 1024 for most profile pictures, 2048 for print or for scaling down cleanly. Transparent PNG is a checkbox, not an upgrade. The 1200 x 630 character card is sized for link previews and for pinning in a Discord channel.
OC ideas when the page is blank
A character usually gets interesting at the contradiction, not at the hair colour. Give them one trait that argues with their look: the sweetest face in the set with the villain trait list, the armour with easily flustered, the crown with hates early mornings. The trait and bio suggestions lean that way on purpose — roles like a courier who never reads the address exist to hand you a story hook rather than a description.
If you are building a cast, make one character properly, then use the share link as a starting point for the next: open it, lock the outfit and the background so the group reads as a set, and randomise everything else. Five siblings or one club in five minutes.
Where you can use your character
Profile pictures on Discord, X, Instagram and Reddit; stream overlays and VTuber reference sheets; character sheets for tabletop games; comic and webtoon drafts; class projects; merchandise. The character is yours with no credit requirement and no watermark. The only thing that is not yours is the part artwork itself as a library — the drawings stay part of this tool, but every character you compose from them is free to use.
Last updated: September 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
What does OC mean?
OC is short for original character — a character you invented yourself rather than one from an existing anime, game or comic. People make OCs for their own stories, for roleplay, for Discord and social profile pictures, for VTuber personas, and for cosplay. Because the character is yours, there is no licensing question hanging over it: you can post it, print it and sell art of it.
Is this anime OC maker really free?
Yes, and there is nothing to unlock. There is no account, no email, no credit system and no watermark on anything you download. Every part is drawn into the page and composed in your browser, so making one character or five hundred costs the same and takes the same time.
Can I use my OC as a profile picture, for VTubing, or commercially?
Yes to all three. The character you assemble is yours to use anywhere, including as a profile picture, a stream avatar, a VTuber model reference, a comic panel, or on something you sell. No credit is required. This is the main thing to check before using any character maker — several popular ones restrict streaming and commercial use in their terms.
What size and format is the download?
PNG at 512, 1024 or 2048 pixels square, and you choose which. Tick “Transparent background” and the background layer is dropped so the PNG carries a real alpha channel, which is what you want for overlays and stream scenes. There is also a 1200 x 630 character card that puts your portrait, name, pronouns, traits and bio into one shareable image.
Can I undo? What happens if I hit Randomise by mistake?
Undo and redo go back fifty steps, and Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z work as they do in any editor. Randomise counts as one step, so a single undo puts the whole character back. You can also lock any category — lock the eyes and the face you liked survives every reroll while everything else changes.
Can I customise the colours exactly?
Yes. Each of the six colour slots — skin, hair, hair shine, eyes, outfit and background — takes any hex value through the colour picker or the hex field, not just a preset list. The hair shine slot is separate from the hair slot, so two-tone and highlighted hair works. There is also a toggle to keep eye colour matched to hair colour while you experiment.
How do I save my character or come back later?
Your character is saved automatically in this browser, so closing the tab and returning brings it back. “Copy share link” puts the whole character into a URL: open that link on any device and the exact same character loads, ready to edit. Nothing is uploaded and no account is involved.
How is this different from Picrew?
Picrew is a platform where many artists publish their own image makers, so the range of art styles there is far wider than one tool can offer. What this does differently: undo works, saving is free, colours take any hex value rather than a fixed palette per part, you pick the export size up to 2048px, transparent PNG is included, and the licence plainly allows profile pictures, VTubing and commercial use. This tool is not affiliated with Picrew.
Do I need any drawing skill?
None. Every part is already drawn; you are choosing and recolouring, not drawing. A complete character takes about a minute, and Randomise plus a few locked categories is a fast way to find a look you would not have thought of.
Do you store my character or my images?
No. There is no server in this tool. The parts, the composition and the PNG export all happen in your browser, and what is saved lives in this browser's own storage on your device. The share link carries the character in the URL itself rather than on any server.