Do I need an account to use this?

No, not to start. Describing your character and picking a style are free, as a guest. It asks who you are at two points: attaching a reference photo, because that means storing your file, and generating, because that spends credits. Sign in with Twitch, Discord or Google and the brief you set up is still there.

Trying it is: describing your character and previewing costs nothing. Generating a character render spends credits, so it isn't unlimited forever, but there's no subscription and nothing to pay just to see whether it's any good.

What do I actually get when it's done?

A full character render, already cut out with a transparent background, plus whatever sign, prop or text you lay over it in the composer. Download the finished panel image, sized to fit Twitch's panel display.

Can I use a photo of myself?

Yes. Attach a few evenly lit, front-facing photos and the render is built to look like the actual person, redrawn in whichever style you pick.

Can I reuse a character I already made for emotes or a PNGtuber avatar?

Yes, if you saved it in Character Studio. Pick it in the brief instead of describing or re-uploading anything, and the panel render matches the same character.

What size should a Twitch panel be for Kick instead?

Kick does have a real Panels feature, but Kick has never published a pixel size, file format or size cap for it anywhere in its own help docs — unlike Twitch, which states 320 CSS px wide plainly. This tool doesn't invent a Kick number it can't back up. A character exported here still works fine dropped into a Kick panel; there just isn't an official "Kick size" to claim.

Can I make more than one panel from the same character?

Yes. Keep the character render once, then build as many panel layouts from it as you want — one for "about me," one for "rules," one for "discord," all using the same figure.

Twitch Panel Maker

What comes back

One character, built to be built on.

Full figure

not a face crop

Room for a sign, a prop or text beside them

3:4

portrait render

Matches how a real panel character actually fills a frame

extra steps

Background's already off, composer's already here

The specs

What Twitch actually asks for

Twitch publishes a clear number for this. It's simpler than most people expect.

Twitch panel

Rule	Value
Display width	Fixed at 320 CSS pixels, whatever you upload
Common standard size	640 × 320 (2:1)
"Thin" panel size	640 × 160 (4:1)
Twitch's own cap	Stay at or under 320 × 600 and 1MB, to be safe

Why design at double the display size

Twitch shows every panel at 320px wide no matter what you upload. Designing at 640px (twice that) is what keeps the image sharp on a screen dense enough to need it — the same reason a website hero image gets exported at 2x.

Worth knowing before you design

Kick has panels too — with no published size

Kick's own help docs confirm the feature exists and stop there. Better to say so than repeat a number nobody can confirm.

Kick does have a real Panelsfeature on a channel page, confirmed directly against Kick's own help docs. What Kick has never published is a pixel size, a file format, a size cap or a count limit for it — nothing like the plain 320px figure Twitch states for its own panels.

A character exported from this tool still works fine dropped into a Kick panel. There just isn't an official "Kick panel size" to design against, so this page doesn't invent one.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

Twitch shows every panel at a fixed 320 CSS pixels wide, however big the file you upload. The common standard size people design at is 640×320 — twice that width, so it stays sharp on higher-density screens. A "thin" panel is 640×160, half as tall, usually used for a short strip like social links. Twitch's own help pages don't fully agree on the exact cap, so stay safely under 320×600 pixels and 1MB either way.

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