Animtr - Anime Style Shader with Candy Mode

Animtr solves a common problem for players who want to give Minecraft a clean, hand-drawn anime look without sacrificing performance or control. Unlike generic shaders that just wash out colors or add bloom, this pack applies crisp white sticker-style borders with soft edges, vibrant pastel color grading, and smooth toon shading with adjustable cel levels. The result is a world that feels lifted from a Saturday morning cartoon or a Studio Ghibli film, while still keeping the blocky identity of Minecraft intact.

This shader is built for builders, roleplayers, and content creators who want a distinctively playful or dreamy visual style. It works particularly well with fantasy themed maps and resource packs, but also adapts to survival gameplay through its configurable settings. Animtr includes material-dependent palette corrections for water, sand, and dirt so those blocks don't look washed out, plus optional glow effects that make glowing entities and ore blocks pop without breaking the toon style. The Candy Mode is a separate toggle that boosts biome-specific colors on foliage and water, turning forests and oceans into extra saturated, candy-colored environments.

• Toon outlines – White sticker borders with adjustable thickness, opacity, and softness; can be disabled per-item or globally.
• Pastel color grading – Smooth, muted tones with a warmth slider and hand-drawn grain effect for an authentic paper-like texture.
• Configurable cel shading – Choose between 2‑4 cel levels to control how much banding appears on surfaces; each step adjusts lighting contrast.
• Candy Mode toggle – Biome‑specific saturation boosts for grass, leaves, and water; turns deserts into warm orange palettes and jungles into neon greens.
• Detail preservation – An extra detail setting that prevents texture blurring at close range, keeping pixel art and custom textures sharp.

Requirements: Animtr runs on OptiFine (HD U G8+ or later) or Iris Shaders (1.19.4+). It requires Minecraft Java Edition and a graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.0 or higher. The Candy Mode may lower frame rates on integrated GPUs due to the additional biome checks. Performance is generally good on mid‑range hardware when cel levels are set to 3 and outlines are kept at medium thickness. Disable the hand‑drawn grain effect if you notice artifacting on certain block textures.