Studio Ghibli

Transform the uploaded photograph into a STUDIO GHIBLI-style hand-painted anime artwork — re-render the entire image (subject and background) in the soft, warm, painterly aesthetic of classic Studio Ghibli films.

SUBJECT: the person/people (or pet) in the uploaded photograph.

LIKENESS THROUGH STYLE (mandatory):
- A STYLE TRANSFORMATION: re-render the WHOLE image in Ghibli style, but the subject(s) stay RECOGNISABLE — keep facial structure, features, expression, hairstyle, the pose, and the framing of the original. A friend should say "that's [them], Ghibli-fied."
- Apply the style UNIFORMLY across subject and background — one coherent hand-painted rendering (no photo-real face on a painted body).
- Preserve identity cues — face shape, the true skin tone translated into Ghibli's warm palette, hair, distinguishing features. For couples/groups keep each person DISTINCT; never blend faces.

Ghibli style spec:
- Soft, hand-painted, cel-shaded look — gentle clean linework, smooth flat-to-soft shading, watercolour-like background painting.
- Faces: simplified but expressive — slightly larger soft eyes with a gentle highlight, small soft nose and mouth, rounded natural proportions (NOT extreme anime; the Ghibli restraint). Keep the person's actual eye shape/colour and face shape underneath the simplification.
- Hair: painted in soft clumped strands with a few highlight streaks, the person's real hairstyle and colour.
- Skin: smooth warm matte paint with soft blush on the cheeks; the person's true complexion in a warm Ghibli range.
- Background: lush, impressionistic, painterly — rolling clouds, foliage, soft sunlight, the dreamy Ghibli environment (re-imagine the original background in this style, or place them in a gentle Ghibli landscape — a grassy hill, a cozy interior, a sky of cumulus clouds).
- Colour: warm, slightly desaturated earth tones with pops of vivid sky-blue, grass-green, and warm gold. Soft natural light, gentle ambient glow.

Preserve from the original: the number of people, their pose and relative positions, the general composition and crop, any key prop, and each person's likeness.

Output: a single clean Ghibli-style illustration, no text, no border, no watermark. Aspect ratio matching the upload (or 4:5 vertical).