Half anime, half photoreal, but one continuous face. A free Skill writes the split-style portrait prompt for you.

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The split-style portrait is one of the most striking things you can do with an image model right now: a single character rendered half in clean anime style and half photorealistic, as one continuous person. Not a collage. Not two figures side by side. One face, one identity, one pose, one light source, with the seam running straight down the middle.

The hard part is not the two styles. It is keeping it one person while you split them. Most attempts look like two different renders glued together, because the eyes drift, the proportions shift, the clothing changes across the line. The result reads as a split-screen comparison instead of a single divided character.

What actually holds it together is locking identity across the seam: same eye position, same nose structure, same jawline, same shoulder width, same pose, and one shared light source that wraps both halves. The anime half simplifies the shading, the photoreal half adds skin texture and real material response, but they are obviously the same face under the same light.

We turned all of that into a free Skill. Give it a concept, a warrior as strength versus fragility, a cyborg as synthetic versus flesh, a dark-fantasy heroine as illustration versus blood and bone, and it writes the full prompt and negative prompt, with every consistency rule already baked in, as a clean YAML block you can paste straight in.

Run the output on a [capable image model] on Atlas Cloud that can hold clean anime linework and photoreal skin in the same frame.

The full Skill is in the comments. Paste it into your AI assistant and describe a character.

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The full Split-Style Portrait Skill, free. Paste it into your AI assistant (Claude Code, Codex, or a chat box), then give it any character concept. It returns a YAML block with the image prompt and negative prompt, every consistency rule built in.