SoloToon-9K

Single-Subject Cartoon Characters for Talking-Head Generation

SoloToon-9K is a collection of approximately 9.8K cartoon-character images gathered and manually screened for downstream talking-head and portrait-animation research. The images primarily depict a single human-like character or cartoon animal, with a mixture of character-design artwork, animation references, stickers, mascots, and illustrations.

Dataset summary

• Images: 9,834
• Primary format: PNG (9,821 files)
• Other formats: JPG/JPEG and WebP
• Content: single-subject cartoon people, animals, mascots, and stylized characters
• Intended use: talking-head generation, portrait animation, character animation, and related research

The files are stored under images/. Filenames often retain source-family prefixes to make provenance auditing easier.

Collection sources

The project collection scripts target public-facing material from sources including:

• ArtStation cartoon-character search and character-animation channel
• Rawpixel cartoon-related searches
• Jimeng category data
• PNG/clip-art websites represented by a small subset of the collection

The presence of an image in this dataset does not imply that its copyright or license has been transferred to the dataset maintainer.

License and usage notice

This dataset is published with license: other because the images originate from multiple third-party sources and do not share one verified open license. Individual images remain subject to the rights, licenses, terms, and attribution requirements of their original creators and source platforms.

Before using the dataset—especially for commercial training, redistribution, or generated media—users should verify the provenance and permission status of the relevant images, comply with applicable platform terms, and remove any content they are not authorized to use. This dataset card does not grant additional rights to the underlying images.

Known limitations

• The collection is curated for single-subject cartoon content, but it may contain occasional multi-subject, non-character, unsuitable, duplicate, or mislabeled images.
• Visual styles, resolutions, aspect ratios, and background transparency vary substantially.
• Source-derived filenames are descriptive but are not guaranteed to be complete metadata.
• No identity, demographic, safety, or quality labels are provided.

中文说明

SoloToon-9K 收录约 9.8K 张以单人或单只卡通动物为主体的角色图片，主要用于 talking-head、肖像动画和卡通角色驱动等研究。图片以 PNG 为主，风格和分辨率较为多样。

本数据集来自多个第三方公开页面，不代表原作者或平台已将版权转让给数据集维护者。使用者在训练、再分发或商业使用前，应自行核验具体图片的来源、许可及平台条款。