About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Universe Simulation
- Language – English
- Category – Space FX
- Prompt Title – Galaxy Formation Time-lapse VFX Prompt
Prompt Details
This is followed by a specific, ready-to-use example.
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### **Optimized Dynamic AI Prompt for Galaxy Formation Time-lapse VFX**
This dynamic prompt is designed as a modular template. You can copy the entire structure and replace the text inside the square brackets `[Variable]` with your specific creative choices. This method allows for infinite variations while maintaining a high-quality, detailed output consistent with best practices in AI prompt engineering.
#### **How to Use This Dynamic Prompt:**
1. **Choose Your Concept:** Decide on the type of galaxy, the key moments in its formation, and the overall mood you want to convey.
2. **Fill in the Blanks:** Go through each section and replace the bracketed placeholders `[like_this]` with descriptive terms from the suggestions provided or your own unique ideas.
3. **Combine and Generate:** Assemble the filled-in text into one continuous prompt. For AI platforms that have separate “negative prompt” fields, use the `[NEGATIVE_PROMPT]` section there.
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### **The Dynamic Prompt Template**
**(Core Concept & Subject)**
`Cinematic VFX time-lapse, a breathtaking visualization of the formation of a [Galaxy_Type] over billions of years. The scene captures the epic cosmic evolution from [Initial_State] into a magnificent, structured galaxy. The focus is on the violent yet beautiful process of gravitational assembly, showcasing the key stages of galactic growth in a single, awe-inspiring frame.`
**(Scene & Environmental Context)**
`The galaxy is forming within the [Cosmic_Environment], with [Background_Elements] subtly visible in the vast, deep-field background. The sense of scale is immense, emphasizing the isolation and grandeur of the creation event.`
**(Action & Time-Lapse Elements)**
`The time-lapse effect is conveyed through [Motion_VFX_1] and [Motion_VFX_2]. We see primordial gas and dark matter [Primary_Action], coalescing into dense knots where the first stars ignite. The frame is filled with dynamic energy, showing [Secondary_Action] and the gradual emergence of the galaxy’s signature [Defining_Feature].`
**(Dominant Colors & Lighting)**
`The color palette is dominated by [Primary_Color_Palette], representing the primordial gas and dark matter, contrasted with the brilliant [Accent_Color_Palette] from star formation, supernovae, and active galactic phenomena. Lighting is dramatic and volumetric, originating from [Primary_Light_Source] and [Secondary_Light_Source], which casts long, ethereal shadows and creates [Specific_Lighting_Effect] across the cosmic dust lanes.`
**(Artistic Style & Rendering)**
`The style is [Overall_Art_Style], blending scientific plausibility with artistic hyper-realism. It should look like a high-budget production still from a [Style_Reference_1] or a digital masterpiece rendered in [Rendering_Engine_Style]. The textures of the nebulae and gas clouds are [Texture_Description], giving them a tangible, physical quality.`
**(Camera & Composition)**
`An [Shot_Type] from a [Camera_Angle], using a cinematic [Lens_Type] effect. The composition follows the [Compositional_Rule], drawing the viewer’s eye towards the [Focal_Point] at the galaxy’s core. There is a slight, realistic [Lens_Effect] to enhance the cinematic feel.`
**(Technical Specifications & Quality)**
`Masterpiece, 8K resolution, ultra-detailed, photorealistic, intricate detail, professional VFX, cinematic quality, trending on ArtStation, epic scale, breathtaking.`
**(Optional Negative Prompt)**
`Avoid: 2D, flat, cartoon, unrealistic physics, lens flare artifacts, blurry, noisy, watermark, text, simple background, uniform color, symmetric, sterile.`
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### **Placeholder Suggestions for Variables:**
* **`[Galaxy_Type]`**: Majestic Spiral Galaxy, massive Elliptical Galaxy, chaotic Irregular Galaxy, ancient Lenticular Galaxy, Starburst Galaxy with intense star formation.
* **`[Initial_State]`**: primordial filaments of hydrogen gas, shimmering dark matter halos, a turbulent nebula after the Big Bang, a wispy cloud of cosmic dust.
* **`[Cosmic_Environment]`**: the heart of a dark matter filament in the cosmic web, a dense region of an early universe proto-cluster, the lonely void between cosmic structures.
* **`[Background_Elements]`**: distant, faint galaxies, the faint glow of the cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing effects from unseen mass.
* **`[Motion_VFX_1]`**: ethereal light trails showing the orbital paths of proto-galaxies, elegant swirls of motion-blurred gas, ghosting images of past mergers.
* **`[Motion_VFX_2]`**: shimmering shockwaves from supernovae, streams of accreting matter flowing like rivers, bright flashes indicating starburst events.
* **`[Primary_Action]`**: violently collapsing under its own gravity, swirling into a nascent accretion disk, being drawn together along invisible cosmic threads.
* **`[Secondary_Action]`**: smaller satellite galaxies being torn apart and consumed, powerful jets of energy erupting from the core, ripples of star formation propagating outwards.
* **`[Defining_Feature]`**: the iconic spiral arms, the glowing central bulge, a bright bar structure, a halo of ancient globular clusters.
* **`[Primary_Color_Palette]`**: deep cosmic blues, royal purples, and inky blacks.
* **`[Accent_Color_Palette]`**: fiery oranges and yellows (starbursts), vibrant magenta and cyan (ionized nebulae), searing electric white (quasar).
* **`[Primary_Light_Source]`**: the combined glow of the first billion stars igniting simultaneously.
* **`[Secondary_Light_Source]`**: the blindingly bright accretion disk of the central supermassive black hole.
* **`[Specific_Lighting_Effect]`**: god rays piercing through dense dust clouds, soft rim lighting defining the edges of gas filaments, specular highlights on newly formed stars.
* **`[Overall_Art_Style]`**: hyper-realistic, scientifically-grounded, painterly and dramatic, ethereal and abstract.
* **`[Style_Reference_1]`**: BBC documentary like ‘Cosmos’ or ‘The Planets’, a frame from the movie ‘Interstellar’, a James Webb Space Telescope photograph.
* **`[Rendering_Engine_Style]`**: Unreal Engine 5 nanite detail, Octane render quality, V-Ray caustics, cinematic Houdini simulation.
* **`[Texture_Description]`**: wispy and filamentary, dense and clumpy, smooth and glowing.
* **`[Shot_Type]`**: epic ultra-wide establishing shot, dynamic medium shot, dramatic low-angle shot.
* **`[Camera_Angle]`**: high-angle looking down on the galactic plane, slightly offset three-quarter view, edge-on view.
* **`[Lens_Type]`**: anamorphic wide-screen, telephoto with deep space compression, fisheye perspective.
* **`[Compositional_Rule]`**: rule of thirds, golden ratio spiral, strong leading lines formed by gas streams.
* **`[Focal_Point]`**: the nascent, glowing core, a spectacular merger event, a region of intense star formation.
* **`[Lens_Effect]`**: chromatic aberration at the edges, subtle bokeh on distant objects, a clean and crisp focus.
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### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is a complete, ready-to-use prompt generated by filling in the dynamic template above.
**(Prompt for AI Image Generator)**
Cinematic VFX time-lapse, a breathtaking visualization of the formation of a **Majestic Spiral Galaxy** over billions of years. The scene captures the epic cosmic evolution from **primordial filaments of hydrogen gas and shimmering dark matter halos** into a magnificent, structured galaxy. The focus is on the violent yet beautiful process of gravitational assembly, showcasing the key stages of galactic growth in a single, awe-inspiring frame.
The galaxy is forming within the **heart of a dark matter filament in the cosmic web**, with **distant, faint proto-galaxies subtly visible in the vast, deep-field background**. The sense of scale is immense, emphasizing the isolation and grandeur of the creation event.
The time-lapse effect is conveyed through **ethereal light trails showing the orbital paths of proto-galaxies** and **shimmering shockwaves from supernovae**. We see primordial gas and dark matter **violently collapsing under its own gravity**, coalescing into dense knots where the first stars ignite. The frame is filled with dynamic energy, showing **smaller satellite galaxies being torn apart and consumed** and the gradual emergence of the galaxy’s signature **iconic spiral arms**.
The color palette is dominated by **deep cosmic blues, royal purples, and inky blacks**, representing the primordial gas and dark matter, contrasted with the brilliant **vibrant magenta and cyan (ionized nebulae) and searing electric white (quasar)** from star formation, supernovae, and active galactic phenomena. Lighting is dramatic and volumetric, originating from **the combined glow of the first billion stars igniting simultaneously** and **the blindingly bright accretion disk of the central supermassive black hole**, which casts long, ethereal shadows and creates **god rays piercing through dense dust clouds** across the cosmic dust lanes.
The style is **hyper-realistic and scientifically-grounded**, blending scientific plausibility with artistic hyper-realism. It should look like a high-budget production still from a **BBC documentary like ‘Cosmos’** or a digital masterpiece rendered in **cinematic Houdini simulation**. The textures of the nebulae and gas clouds are **wispy and filamentary**, giving them a tangible, physical quality.
An **epic ultra-wide establishing shot** from a **high-angle looking down on the galactic plane**, using a cinematic **anamorphic wide-screen** effect. The composition follows the **golden ratio spiral**, drawing the viewer’s eye towards the **nascent, glowing core** at the galaxy’s center. There is a slight, realistic **chromatic aberration at the edges** to enhance the cinematic feel.
Masterpiece, 8K resolution, ultra-detailed, photorealistic, intricate detail, professional VFX, cinematic quality, trending on ArtStation, epic scale, breathtaking.
**(Negative Prompt field)**
`Avoid: 2D, flat, cartoon, unrealistic physics, lens flare artifacts, blurry, noisy, watermark, text, simple background, uniform color, symmetric, sterile.`