Animagine 4 Prompt Tutorial for AI Anime Art

Learn how to create high-quality anime-style AI images with optimized prompts and generation settings using the Animagine 4 model.

Introduction

Welcome to Animagine 4! This guide will help you get started with generating high-quality anime-style images using the Animagine4 model. Follow these tips to ensure your images are both aesthetically pleasing and technically sound.

Prompting

Positive Prompt

Use a structured format: 1girl/1boy/1other, character name, from which series, rating, additional details, quality enhancement.

Example: 1girl, cute, smiling, medium hair, brown hair, brown eyes, soft lighting

Example Outputs (SEO-Optimized)

Cute anime girl with brown hair and brown eyes smiling in detailed background
Cute anime girl with brown hair and brown eyes smiling.
Anime girl sitting on park bench wearing white blouse and pleated skirt in sunlight
Anime girl sitting on a park bench in sunlight.
Anime girl with brown hair in ponytail wearing denim jacket on city street during evening light
Anime girl with ponytail in denim jacket on a city street.

Negative Prompt

Use a negative prompt to remove unwanted details or artifacts from your image.

Example: lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality, low score, bad score, average score, signature, watermark, username, blurry

Tags

Quality Tags

Control image quality and detail level. Use:

  • masterpiece
  • best quality
  • low quality
  • worst quality

Score Tags

Adjust perceived image quality:

  • high score
  • great score
  • good score
  • average score
  • bad score
  • low score

Temporal Tags

Control the style using time references:

  • year 2005
  • year {n}
  • year 2025

Rating Tags

Control content safety and maturity level:

  • safe
  • sensitive
  • nsfw
  • explicit

Generation Parameters

  • CFG Scale: Set between 4–7. Recommended: 5.
  • Steps: Use 25–28 sampling steps. Recommended: 28.
  • Sampler: Euler Ancestral (Euler a).
  • Resolution: Use standard aspect ratios:
    • 1:1 — 1024x1024
    • 9:7 — 1152x896
    • 3:2 — 1216x832
    • 7:4 — 1344x768
    • 12:5 — 1536x640
    • 7:9 — 896x1152
    • 2:3 — 832x1216
    • 4:7 — 768x1344
    • 5:12 — 640x1536

Advanced Settings

  • Guidance Rescale: Set to 0.5 to avoid overexposed images.
  • PAG Scale: Set to 3 for improved results.
  • Prepend Preprompt: Enabled by default. Adds quality-enhancing tags.
  • Seed: Use -1 for randomness or set a specific seed for repeatable results.

Limitations

  • Prompt Format: Only tag-based English prompts are supported. Natural language may not work.
  • Anatomy: May struggle with complex anatomy, especially hands and fingers.
  • Text Generation: Avoid prompts involving text in images — rendering is not reliable.
  • New Characters: May lack data on newer characters, affecting quality.
  • Multiple Characters: Use specific prompting techniques for group scenes.
  • Resolution: Very high resolutions (e.g., 1536x1536) may degrade quality.
  • Style Consistency: Include style-specific tags to guide consistent output.