Style

The Style picker sets the overall visual treatment of an image or a video: photographic, painted, drawn or rendered. You choose a style from its catalog, such as Cinematic, Anime, Oil Painting, Pixel Art or Ukiyo-e. Nodaro adds tested wording for that style to the prompt of every node you connect it to. The picker never calls a model, so it costs no credits.

When to use it

• Keep one visual language across a batch of images, for example every frame of a storyboard in Comic Book style.
• Try the same prompt in different styles: change the picker and run the image node again.
• Turn a photographic prompt into art: Watercolor, Charcoal Drawing, Stained Glass or Claymation.
• Set the style of a whole video workflow once, and connect the same picker to every image and video node.

How to use it

Settings

To see the exact words the picker will add, switch the node to the Prompt or Both display mode. The settings panel shows the same text under Will inject into prompt.

Style picker or the Style setting of Generate Image

Generate Image has its own Style setting with a short list of styles. When a Style picker is connected, the picker wins: the node's own setting is turned off and shows Bypassed — using connected Style node. This way the style is never added twice. Use the picker when you want the larger catalog, or one style for many nodes.

Styles for images and for video

Every style has two wordings. An image node receives the image wording. A video node receives a video wording in its place, written for moving shots. The video wording names the medium first, then its techniques. For example, a drawn style names a 2D medium and its outlines, and a photographic style names a live-action medium, so the video stays photographed.

• The video wording is used when the picker is connected to the Look input of a video node, and when a video route of the API receives the style as direction.style.
• The image wording is used on image nodes, and in a {Label} reference to the Style picker inside a prompt, also on a video node.
• To see the words a run sends, open the video node's Final prompt view. It shows the video wording. The Style picker's own preview shows the image wording.
• In Compact mode, images and video receive the same short term.

Every style also has a medium: filmed, rendered in 3D or drawn. The video wording follows it, so a 3D style is rendered rather than drawn, and a photographic style stays photographed.

Styles for video only

Five styles are made for video alone: Felt Puppet, Knitted Yarn, Toy Figure 3D, Painterly 3D and Painted Clay. Each one turns a whole clip, the people and the set alike, into a handmade or 3D-animated look. The Style setting of image nodes does not list them. The Style picker lists them, because it can feed both kinds of node. If you connect a video-only style to an image node, it still works, and the image receives the style's image wording.

Styles for restyling a filmed clip

Lists of styles for restyling a filmed clip, such as the art style of a Nodaro Motion run, leave out three styles: Fantasy, Surrealism and Concept Art. In tests, each of them gave the same plain 2D cartoon, without a look of its own. Video generation still offers them.

Every style

Search by name. The words under each name are the term the picker adds in Compact mode.

On Nodaro Cloud, each tile shows the same base image in that style. A switch beside the picker's heading changes the tiles to drawn illustrations. Self-hosted installs show the illustrations only.

Tips

• Add a signature. Stack Style with Photographer / Artist Style or Aesthetic / Microtrend for finer direction.
• Use the render picker for 3D. For a CG look, pair 3D Render or Pixar 3D with Render Quality.
• Compare styles fast. Duplicate the image node, connect a different Style picker to each copy, and run them side by side.