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Studio Ghibli style

Studio Ghibli style is hand-drawn 2D animation with painted backgrounds and unhurried movement.

Studio Ghibli style: hand-drawn 2D animation with painted backgrounds and unhurried movement22
Look Hand-drawn 2D, painted backgroundsBest for Gentle stories, travel and foodFamily Retro animation

Made with Seedance 2.5 · tested Oct 2026 · 8 s · 480p · 16:9 · text-to-video

The prompt

Traditional hand-drawn 2D animation: characters drawn with clean ink lines and flat cel colours with one soft shadow tone, set against detailed hand-painted background art with visible brush texture, soft afternoon light and gentle, unhurried movement. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short brown hair in a yellow T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: the image stays hand-drawn 2D animation with clean ink lines, flat cel colours and painted background art, one continuous take.

Reusable style block

Traditional hand-drawn 2D animation: characters drawn with clean ink lines and flat cel colours with one soft shadow tone, set against detailed hand-painted background art with visible brush texture, soft afternoon light and gentle, unhurried movement.

Paste this at the start of any scene to restyle it. Restate the props in the same material, and repeat the style in your Throughout line.

Tip

Describing the famous mood ("pastoral, whimsical") was refused. Describing how it is drawn (ink lines, flat cel colour, painted backgrounds) passed and still looks right.

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