Hunyuan Image 3.0 is Tencent's open-source image model — a native multimodal, unified autoregressive model with 80 billion parameters (about 13B activated) across a 64-expert mixture, the largest open-source image model at launch. For art and anime work its two standout traits are a wide style range — anime, watercolor, oil, 3D, pixel, and concept art all render cleanly — and strong Asian cultural authenticity, which makes it unusually good at traditional Chinese ink-wash, gongbi, wuxia, and guochao looks that most rivals fumble.
Because Hunyuan commits to a style when you name the medium, these 24 prompts always state the look explicitly — cel-shaded anime, shui-mo ink-wash, impasto oil, low-poly 3D — before the palette, lighting, and composition. Paste any one in, pick the aspect ratio and resolution from the Settings line, swap the bracketed parts, and iterate. For more, browse the best Hunyuan Image prompts roundup and keep the Hunyuan Image cheat sheet open for the modifier tables.
Anime & cel-shaded
Name the anime sub-style — cel-shaded, soft slice-of-life, shonen action — then the palette and lighting. Keep character descriptions tight so the linework stays clean.
1. Anime hero key art
Dramatic anime key art of a young swordswoman with silver hair and a flowing crimson cloak standing on a windswept cliff at sunset, glowing katana held low, dynamic low-angle composition with lens flare and dramatic clouds, vibrant cel-shaded anime style with clean bold linework and rich saturated color, warm rim light against a violet sky, cinematic and heroic mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: naming cel-shaded style plus the low-angle composition and rim light gives Hunyuan the whole recipe for punchy game-splash key art.
2. Cel-shaded slice-of-life scene
A soft slice-of-life anime scene of two students eating lunch on a school rooftop in late afternoon, gentle cel shading with clean thin outlines, warm golden sunlight and long soft shadows, a pastel palette of peach, sky-blue, and cream, calm nostalgic mood, detailed background of distant city rooftops and a few drifting clouds, wide balanced composition.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Best for: visual-novel backgrounds, lo-fi covers, and gentle anime storytelling.
3. Shonen action splash
An explosive shonen anime action splash of a spiky-haired fighter mid-leap throwing a glowing energy punch, motion lines and shattered debris flying outward, dynamic diagonal composition with a foreshortened fist toward the viewer, bold cel-shaded style with heavy black outlines and high-contrast color, electric-blue energy against a fiery orange background, high-energy dramatic mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 2:3 · 2K
Why it works: motion lines, foreshortening, and a diagonal layout are named directly, so Hunyuan builds the kinetic energy shonen art depends on.
4. Soft anime portrait
A close-up anime portrait of a gentle young woman with long teal hair and soft amber eyes, looking slightly off-camera, delicate cel shading with soft cheek blush and detailed glossy eyes, diffuse warm window light with a subtle bloom, muted pastel palette of teal, rose, and cream, shallow blurred background of a sunlit room, tender introspective mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 4:5 · 2K
Best for: character portraits, avatars, and profile art with a soft, emotive tone.
Traditional Chinese ink-wash & gongbi
Hunyuan's cultural training shows most here. For loose shui-mo ask for expressive brushwork and negative space; for gongbi ask for fine even outlines and flat mineral color. Name the tradition precisely.
5. Wuxia ink-wash landscape
A traditional Chinese ink-wash painting (shui-mo) of a lone swordsman crossing a mist-shrouded mountain bridge, distant peaks fading into pale washes of grey and black, a single splash of red on his sash, expressive loose brushwork with visible rice-paper texture and generous negative space, elegant wuxia atmosphere, minimal and poetic, monochrome ink with one restrained accent.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:4 · 2K
Why it works: shui-mo and wuxia together cue Hunyuan's cultural training, so the brushwork, mist, and negative space read as authentic rather than generic.
6. Gongbi fine-line bird study
A traditional Chinese gongbi painting of a pair of magpies on a blossoming plum branch, meticulous fine even outlines and delicate layered washes, flat refined mineral pigments in soft coral, jade, and ink-black, precise realistic detail in every feather and petal, warm silk-scroll background with generous empty space, calm elegant classical mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:4 · 2K
Best for: refined botanical and bird-and-flower art where precise linework is the whole point.
7. Guochao poster illustration
A modern guochao (Chinese-chic) poster illustration of an elegant woman in flowing hanfu holding a paper fan, bold flat color blocking fused with traditional cloud and wave motifs, a rich palette of vermilion, indigo, and gold, the vertical headline "国潮" rendered in a clean modern brush style down the right edge, contemporary graphic composition with confident negative space, festive and stylish.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 2:3 · 2K
Why it works: guochao blends traditional motifs with modern layout, and Hunyuan's best-in-class Chinese text keeps the short quoted headline legible.
8. Shan shui mountain scroll
A classical Chinese shan shui landscape scroll of layered misty mountains, a winding river, and a tiny pavilion nestled among pines, receding planes of pale to deep ink wash suggesting vast depth, delicate texture strokes on the rock faces, soft atmospheric fog between the ridges, muted monochrome ink with faint warm tinting, serene contemplative mood, tall vertical composition.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:4 · 2K
Best for: serene wall-art landscapes and covers that need traditional depth and calm.
Watercolor & oil painting
Name the medium, the brushwork, and the paper or canvas texture. Watercolor wants soft blooms and negative space; oil wants visible impasto strokes and warm light.
9. Loose watercolor cityscape
A loose watercolor painting of a rainy European street cafe at dusk, wet-on-wet washes with soft bleeding edges and reflected neon on the pavement, a limited palette of slate-blue, warm amber, and rose, suggestive figures under umbrellas painted with a few confident strokes, visible cold-press paper texture and generous white space, atmospheric and impressionistic mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:2 · 2K
Why it works: wet-on-wet, bleeding edges, and paper texture are named, so Hunyuan leans into true watercolor behaviour instead of a flat digital fill.
10. Botanical watercolor study
A delicate watercolor botanical study of a single plum-blossom branch, loose expressive brushwork with soft blooms and visible paper texture, a muted palette of blush pink and sage green on a warm off-white background, generous negative space, fine translucent layering in the petals, elegant fine-art illustration style suitable for framing.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 4:5 · 2K
Best for: prints, stationery, and packaging that need a soft, hand-painted botanical.
11. Impasto oil portrait
An impasto oil painting portrait of an elderly fisherman with a weathered face and a thick wool sweater, thick visible palette-knife strokes catching the light, warm directional studio lighting in the manner of old-master portraiture, a rich earthy palette of ochre, umber, and deep teal shadow, textured canvas showing through, dignified and contemplative mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 4:5 · 2K
Why it works: impasto and palette-knife cues push Hunyuan toward real paint texture and light-catching ridges rather than a smooth render.
12. Classical oil still life
A classical oil-painting still life of a pewter jug, a cluster of grapes, a cut lemon, and a crusty loaf on a dark wooden table, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting with a single warm light from the left and deep shadow, in the manner of a Dutch Golden Age master, rich glazed color, subtle canvas texture, luminous highlights on the fruit skin, timeless and quiet mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:2 · 2K
Best for: painterly still lifes and traditional wall art with dramatic light.
3D & stylized render
Name the render style — low-poly, isometric, claymation, pixel — plus the lighting model and palette. Keep backgrounds plain for reusable assets.
13. Stylized 3D character render
A stylized 3D character render of a cheerful young explorer with a big backpack and round goggles, in the polished look of a modern animated feature, soft subsurface skin shading and appealing exaggerated proportions, warm three-point lighting with a gentle rim, a bright friendly palette of teal and orange, plain light-grey studio background, full-body front pose, clean and characterful.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 1:1 · 2K
Best for: mascot concepts and hero characters in an animated-feature style.
14. Isometric diorama room
A cute isometric 3D render of a cozy home office cutaway room, a small desk with a laptop, a leafy plant, a bookshelf, and a warm lamp, a soft pastel palette of cream, sage, and blush, clean stylized low-poly style with soft global-illumination lighting and gentle ambient shadows, rendered like a polished 3D scene on a plain light background, precise and tidy.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 1:1 · 2K
Why it works: naming the isometric low-poly look and soft GI lighting gives a clean, consistent 3D diorama style.
15. Claymation-style creature
A charming claymation-style 3D render of a round googly-eyed forest creature with tiny arms and a leaf hat, visible fingerprint and sculpt marks in the matte clay surface, soft stop-motion studio lighting with gentle shadows, a warm earthy palette of moss-green and mustard, plain neutral background, front three-quarter pose, whimsical handmade charm.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 1:1 · 2K
Best for: quirky mascots and kids' brand characters with a handmade feel.
16. Pixel-art town scene
A detailed pixel-art scene of a cozy medieval town square at dusk, 16-bit era style with a clean limited palette and crisp aligned pixels, glowing lantern-lit windows, a fountain, market stalls, and cobblestone paths, warm orange and deep-blue evening color, subtle dithering for the sky gradient, charming retro-game atmosphere, side-scroller framing.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: naming the 16-bit era, limited palette, and dithering steers Hunyuan toward a coherent pixel grid instead of a fake pixelated blur.
Concept & environment art
Name the mood, the palette, and the level of finish — rough concept versus polished key art. World-knowledge reasoning fills a short brief with plausible design detail.
17. Fantasy environment concept
A polished fantasy environment concept painting of a floating archipelago of moss-covered islands linked by rope bridges, waterfalls spilling into open sky, a distant airship, golden-hour god-rays breaking through clouds, painterly digital brushwork with atmospheric perspective and a warm teal-and-amber palette, epic sense of scale with a tiny figure for reference, cinematic wide composition.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Best for: game and film environment concepts that need scale and mood.
18. Sci-fi vehicle concept
A clean sci-fi vehicle concept sheet of a sleek hovercraft speeder, three-quarter hero view plus a small side profile, hard-surface industrial design with panel lines, exposed thrusters, and a weathered matte-white and orange livery, neutral studio lighting on a plain grey background, crisp painterly rendering with legible mechanical detail, functional believable design.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: asking for hero plus profile views and hard-surface panel detail gives a usable design sheet rather than a single showy render.
19. Creature concept sheet
A creature concept sheet for a six-legged forest guardian with bark-like armored skin, glowing moss patches, and antler-like horns, showing a full-body side view, a front view, and a head close-up on one sheet, painterly concept-art rendering with a natural mossy-green and amber palette, soft even lighting on a plain parchment background, keep the anatomy, horns, and markings identical across every view.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Best for: creature and monster design where you need consistent multi-view reference.
20. Moody matte painting
A moody cinematic matte painting of a ruined cathedral half-swallowed by an overgrown forest, shafts of foggy light piercing broken stained-glass windows, ivy and roots reclaiming stone arches, a desaturated palette of cool green, grey, and a single warm shaft of gold, painterly photoreal blend with fine atmospheric detail, wide establishing composition, solemn haunting mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: a painterly-photoreal blend with named light shafts and a controlled palette gives the layered depth matte paintings need.
Illustration & character sheets
Flat-vector, storybook, and comic looks all render well. For sheets, describe the character once and demand identical proportions and outfit across every pose on a plain background.
21. Anime character turnaround sheet
An anime character turnaround sheet for a teenage mechanic girl with short copper hair, orange goggles pushed up, denim overalls, and heavy work boots, showing front, side, three-quarter, and back full-body views in a row on a plain white background, clean cel-shaded style with consistent thin outlines and a warm palette, keep the proportions, hairstyle, and outfit identical across all four poses.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: one tight character description plus the explicit keep-identical instruction and a plain background yields a usable reference sheet.
22. Flat-vector editorial illustration
A modern flat-vector editorial illustration about remote work, a person at a laptop on an oversized coffee cup floating among clouds and small task icons, clean geometric shapes with bold flat color and subtle grain texture, a confident palette of coral, navy, and mustard, no gradients or heavy shadows, balanced conceptual composition with generous negative space, friendly professional tone.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 3:2 · 2K
Best for: blog headers, landing-page art, and article illustrations.
23. Storybook picture-book spread
A warm children's picture-book spread of a small round panda in a blue scarf sharing bamboo with a shy rabbit under a big willow tree, soft watercolor-and-ink illustration with gentle textured washes, a cheerful palette of leaf-green, sky-blue, and warm cream, soft dappled sunlight, cozy storybook composition with room for text along the top, tender friendly mood.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Why it works: naming the watercolor-and-ink medium and leaving room for text produces an illustration that reads as a real picture-book page.
24. Comic character model sheet
A comic character model sheet for a wisecracking detective in a rumpled tan trench coat and fedora, showing a full-body front pose, a back view, and three head expressions — neutral, grinning, and alarmed — on one sheet against a plain background, bold modern webcomic style with thick clean outlines and flat cheerful color, keep the proportions, coat, and hat identical across every pose and expression.Settings: Hunyuan Image 3.0 · 16:9 · 2K
Best for: webcomics and animation pipelines that need a consistent character model. Pair it with the Hunyuan photorealism prompts when a scene needs a realistic backdrop.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hunyuan Image 3.0 do anime well?
Yes. Hunyuan Image 3.0 renders clean cel-shaded anime, soft slice-of-life, and dramatic key art reliably. Name the exact look you want — cel-shaded, flat color, thick clean linework, dynamic low-angle composition — plus the palette and lighting, and it commits to the style. Because it is a native multimodal model with a wide style range, it moves between anime, painterly, and vector looks without bleeding one into another, as long as you name the medium clearly in the prompt.
How do I get a traditional Chinese ink-wash or gongbi look?
This is where Hunyuan pulls ahead, thanks to strong Asian cultural authenticity in its training. For ink-wash (shui-mo), ask for loose expressive brushwork, washes of grey and black, visible rice-paper texture, and generous negative space, and add wuxia or shan shui context for mood. For gongbi, ask instead for fine even outlines, meticulous detail, and flat mineral color, since gongbi is the precise counterpart to loose ink-wash. Naming the specific tradition — shui-mo, gongbi, guochao, shan shui — steers it more accurately than a generic "Chinese painting".
How do I keep a character consistent across a turnaround or model sheet?
Describe the character once in tight detail — hair, outfit, colors, distinguishing features — then ask for front, side, three-quarter, and back views on one sheet against a plain background, and add the instruction to keep the proportions and outfit identical across every pose. A plain background and one named style stop the model from redesigning the character between views. For finer control you can generate the sheet, pick the strongest view, and use the Instruct variant to bring the others into line.
Why should I name the medium in an art prompt?
Naming the medium — oil impasto, watercolor, ink-wash, low-poly 3D, pixel art — is the single biggest lever on style. Hunyuan commits to a look when you state it explicitly, so oil painting gets visible brush texture, watercolor gets soft blooms and paper grain, and pixel art gets a clean limited grid. Vague words like "artistic" or "stylized" leave the model guessing. Name the medium first, then reinforce it with palette, brushwork, and texture cues.
What resolution can Hunyuan Image 3.0 output?
Hunyuan Image 3.0 generates up to 2048x2048 (2K). It does not output native 4K, so plan crops and print sizes around 2K, or upscale afterward if you need larger. Aspect ratio and resolution are interface or API settings rather than inline flags — there is no --ar parameter. Pick the ratio you want (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3, 16:9, or 9:16) and the size in the tool, and use the Settings line under each prompt as a reminder.
Is Hunyuan Image 3.0 free, and where can I run it?
The model weights are open-source under Apache 2.0, so you can download and run them yourself for free, including commercial use, if you have the hardware. It is a native multimodal, unified autoregressive model with 80 billion total parameters (about 13 billion activated) across a 64-expert mixture-of-experts, the largest open-source image model at launch. You can also use the official portal at hunyuan.tencent.com, download from Hugging Face and GitHub, or reach it through APIs like Tencent Cloud and WaveSpeed AI.
Can Hunyuan render text inside art like posters or covers?
Yes, and it is a genuine strength. Hunyuan has best-in-class bilingual English and Chinese text rendering, so guochao posters, comic speech bubbles, and picture-book titles come out legible when you put the exact words in double quotes and keep each string short. Name the lettering style and where it sits. If a word renders wrong, shorten it, isolate it as its own quoted element, and regenerate rather than adding more copy.
How is Hunyuan for concept art and environment design?
It is well suited to it. World-knowledge reasoning means a short brief for a fantasy vista or sci-fi vehicle resolves into a coherent, plausible design, and the wide style range covers painterly matte paintings, clean concept sheets, and stylized renders. For production use, name the mood, the palette, the level of finish (rough concept versus polished key art), and the composition, and generate a creature or vehicle on a plain background when you need a clean sheet to iterate from.