Shattered Playing Card Prompt
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Prompt
Create a cinematic photorealistic poster in {ASPECT_RATIO} showing a powerful character emerging out of a shattered {CARD_RANK} of {CARD_SUIT} playing card.
IDENTITY RULE
•If {REFERENCE_IMAGE} is provided, use it as the primary identity reference for the main character.
•Preserve the exact facial identity, facial structure, eyes, nose, lips, skin tone, and overall recognizability of the uploaded person.
•Do not replace the person with a generic fantasy face.
•Keep the result photorealistic and believable.
•If no reference image is provided, build the character from {CHARACTER_DESCRIPTION}.
CORE COMPOSITION
•The playing card is the main structural object in the image.
•The card is large, vertical, centered, and clearly readable as a {CARD_RANK} of {CARD_SUIT}.
•The card is made of {CARD_MATERIAL}, with visible cracks, weathering, chipped edges, dust, and broken fragments.
•The character is breaking through the center of the card, as if the figure inside it has become real and is pushing into our world.
•The torso and one arm extend forward from the broken card plane.
•Broken card fragments, rubble, dust, and debris explode outward into the foreground.
•Keep the composition poster-like, iconic, dramatic, and clean, with one obvious hero subject.
CHARACTER DESIGN
•Genre: {GENRE}
•Expression: {EXPRESSION}
•Hair: {HAIR_STYLE}
•Outfit: {WARDROBE}
•Wardrobe must feel rich, detailed, elegant, and cinematic, with realistic fabric texture, embroidery, stitching, metallic accents, and believable material response to light.
•The character should feel powerful, regal, dangerous, and composed.
ACTION / EFFECT
•The character has one hand extended toward camera, generating {MAGIC_STYLE}.
•The magic energy should feel bright, physically integrated into the lighting, and cast realistic glow onto fingers, skin, outfit, dust, and nearby stone fragments.
•Add sparks, glowing particles, small lightning tendrils, and energy turbulence around the hand.
•Debris level: {DEBRIS_INTENSITY}
•Stone/card fragments should appear suspended mid-air with realistic motion and depth.
CAMERA / LIGHTING
•Camera angle: front-facing hero poster angle, slightly low or eye-level, but not extreme.
•Medium-to-tight poster framing with the card filling most of the composition.
•Cinematic dramatic lighting with:
•strong key light on face
•warm magical glow from the hand
•volumetric atmosphere
•deep shadows
•high contrast
•subtle rim light separating subject from background
•Sharp focus on face and hand, with tasteful depth falloff in background debris.
LOOK / RENDER QUALITY
•Photorealistic, not illustration
•Fantasy movie poster realism
•Ultra-detailed textures
•Real skin texture
•Real stone texture
•Real dust, smoke, and particle behavior
•High dynamic range
•Cinematic color grading
•Crisp detail
•Premium VFX-film quality
•No flat digital painting look
•No cartoon look
•No anime look
•No fake plastic CGI skin
Instructions
Use this prompt with Google Nano Banana Pro image model in Gemini or AI Studio. Upload your picture with the prompt as a reference image.
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