Personalised 3D animated movie family portrait poster — your photo as a 3D cartoon

A photo of the family together, turned into a frame from a 3D animated movie under the title “Our Family”: one gift for everyone, made from a photo you already have. You see the poster in thirty seconds before you order; for Christmas, order at least ten days ahead.

In our tests, a family of five across three generations was drawn in full and recognisable. Beyond that, or for a photo taken from a distance, the poster is not guaranteed: choose a photo where every face is clearly visible, and check the image before you order.

Yes: it is the gift from the children and grandchildren for a birthday or Christmas. The title can be changed (“At Nana’s House”, “The Whole Gang”) and the subtitle can carry the family name. For Nana and Grandad with their grandchildren, the “grandparents” listing exists too.

Your family photo — a mum with her child, a dad, a couple, a family, a baby or grandparents, depending on the listing — redrawn as a frame from a 3D computer-animated movie: big shining eyes, round cheeks, warm cinematic light. The faces, hairstyles, clothes, pose and background of your photo are kept and reimagined in colour. The title (“Mum, My Everything”, “I Love You”…) is written at the top of the poster, and you can keep it or change it.

A sharp, well-lit photo where every face is clearly visible, head-on or three-quarter view. A phone photo is enough — JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 25 MB. The closer it is taken, the better the likeness: a photo taken from a distance gives tiny faces. The background of the photo (the beach, the garden, the living room) is kept and reimagined. With three tries per photo, you see the result before you order.

In our tests, from one to five people were drawn in full and recognisable: a mum and her daughter, a dad and his son, a couple, a family of five across three generations, a grandmother with her two grandchildren. More than five people, a photo taken from a distance or faces that are hidden have not been tried: the poster is not guaranteed in those cases, which is why you see it before you order.

Yes. An artificial intelligence transforms your photo in about thirty seconds: it is not the work of an animation studio, and no existing character or movie is reproduced. You see the result before you order, and that exact image is the one printed, in our workshop in Aveyron. The features, hairstyles and expressions come from your photo, but the proportions are deliberately a little exaggerated, as in a cartoon: the likeness of a 3D character is never that of a photograph.

Yes. The title and subtitle are written at the top of the poster, not in the image: you can change them at any time without redoing the image — a first name, the family name, a date. They are limited to 30 and 40 characters, and shrink to fit on one line. Title ideas are suggested under the field.

A4, 30 × 40, 40 × 60, 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm: standard frame sizes that are easy to find. An optional wooden frame is available on A4 and 30 × 40, in black, white or natural, with an acrylic glass front; the larger sizes are delivered rolled, to be framed at home. The image fills the sheet: depending on the size, a little of the top and bottom is cropped (up to 11% on the 30 × 40, none on the 40 × 60), and the title always stays whole.

It stays private: never published, and deleted thirty days after your order is dispatched (or after purchase, for the printable file), together with the image created. It is sent to an artificial intelligence service run by Google to be transformed; the privacy policy describes this.

Yes. The printable file contains all five sizes, each as a PDF and a 300 dpi PNG — ten files in all, through a download link sent after payment, so you can print it wherever you like.

The workshop prints to order and dispatches within 48 hours: allow four to five days in France and six to seven elsewhere in the European Union, workshop time included. For a fixed date, order a week ahead in France and ten days ahead elsewhere — so for Ireland, at least ten days.