Casting Call! (A Visual Novel Portrait Maker!)

Casting Call! is a free Visual Novel Portrait Maker created in Godot and made in less than two weeks for the 2026 Make Visual Novel Assets (MVNA) game jam.

It works just like a picrew, choose your characters body / face type, hair, outfit and accessories. Change the colors to your liking with the color pickers and customize them further with stickers to place anywhere on your character!

Once you are done, name your character and press Cast! and you will receive a .zip file with 32 PNGs: 16 Different facial expressions with both a mouth closed and a talking variation. Each portrait is 400x600 px with a transparent background.

You can preview any of the expressions on the left-side expression bar.

Terms of Use:

Characters made in Casting Call! can be used and modified freely in your projects as placeholders or even as final assets! 

100% Free, regardless of if your project is commercial or not!

No attribution is required. If you would like to credit me as your character portrait artist anyway, please credit as “Tira del Alba”.

Restrictions:

You are NOT allowed to use characters created using Casting Call! for the following:

- In projects that contain AI generated assets.
- To train AI models.
- To make NFTs or promote crypto currency coins.
- To encourage hate speech of any kind.

 

Dev Notes:

Hi! I'm Tira, an amateur game developer and even more amateur artist.
I started learning art late last year in 2025 for my own game projects and decided on this project as a way to practice my artwork and force me to actually post some, which is not something I am very comfortable doing at the time of writing this.

I made this project as complete as I could in the limited time I had to make it but there's a lot I would have done differently were I to start this project over again, I guess that's part of learning lol.

Some of the other things I wanted to add but didn't have time to were; shading layers, multiple color options for clothing and hair, hats, animal ears, tails, wings, different body poses for different expressions, more expressions, more assets, setting themed assets, different eye styles and even a few more body types.

Following this jam I would like to add some of these features into the program, but first I have some other projects I want to focus on.
So if you do like this program and want to see it get updates, please let me know! That will help motivate me to actually implement them in the future.

I hope you find this tool useful, even if you just use it to make some quick placeholders for your project.
Thank you for playing!
-Tira