About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Weather FX
- Language – English
- Category – Atmospheric Effects
- Prompt Title – Lightning Storm Over City VFX Prompt
Prompt Details
### **The Optimized Dynamic AI Prompt Template**
This prompt is structured as a modular template. You can fill in the bracketed `[variables]` with your desired keywords to dynamically generate a vast array of unique scenes. This structure follows best practices by separating core concepts, artistic direction, and technical specifications, giving the AI a clear and detailed hierarchy of instructions.
—
#### **Title:** Dynamic Prompt for Cinematic Lightning Storm VFX
#### **Niche:** Weather FX
#### **Purpose:** Atmospheric Effects Generation
#### **Prompt Type:** Dynamic (Modular Template)
#### **Target Platforms:** All (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 3, etc.)
—
### **[I. CORE SCENE DESCRIPTION]**
**Primary Subject:** A breathtaking, cinematic VFX shot of a massive lightning storm engulfing a `[City Style]` city. The atmosphere is charged with raw, electrical energy.
**Focal Point:** The primary focus is on the dramatic interaction between the `[Lightning Type]` and the urban architecture, emphasizing the scale and power of the storm.
### **[II. ATMOSPHERIC & ENVIRONMENTAL DETAILS]**
**Cloud & Sky:** The sky is dominated by `[Cloud Formation]` that are churning and dark. The clouds are illuminated from within by constant flashes of sheet lightning, creating a sense of immense depth and turmoil.
**Precipitation:** The scene is drenched in `[Precipitation Type]`, which catches the ambient light from the city and the flashes from the storm. Surfaces like streets and windows are `[Surface Condition]`, creating vivid reflections.
**Wind & Motion:** The storm’s power is visualized through `[Wind Effects]`, adding a sense of dynamic chaos to the scene.
### **[III. LIGHTNING & ELECTRICAL EFFECTS]**
**Primary Lightning:** A colossal `[Lightning Type]` bolt, characterized by its `[Lightning Structure]`, strikes a `[Strike Target]`. This is the key moment of impact.
**Lightning Color & Intensity:** The lightning glows with a powerful, `[Lightning Color]` hue, casting harsh, dramatic shadows and briefly overexposing parts of the scene. The light has a `[Light Quality]` quality.
**Secondary Electrical Effects:** The air is filled with `[Secondary Effects]` like smaller electrical tendrils, ozone glows around sharp metallic edges, and static discharges.
### **[IV. CITYSCAPE & ARCHITECTURE]**
**Architectural Style:** The city is a `[City Style]` cityscape, featuring `[Key Architectural Features]`. The buildings are constructed from materials like `[Building Materials]`.
**City Scale & Density:** The view showcases a `[City Scale]`, from a dense urban canyon to a sprawling metropolis stretching to the horizon.
**Urban Lighting:** The city’s own lighting—`[Urban Light Type]` from windows, streetlights, and advertisements—fights against the storm’s darkness, creating a stunning color contrast.
### **[V. CINEMATOGRAPHY & COMPOSITION]**
**Camera View:** The scene is captured from a `[Camera Angle]` with a `[Lens Type]` lens, creating a sense of `[Perspective Effect]`.
**Composition:** The composition follows the rule of thirds, with the main lightning strike acting as a powerful leading line. The `[Strike Target]` serves as the main anchor point in the frame.
**Mood & Tone:** The overall mood is `[Mood]`, evoking feelings of awe, danger, and sublime natural power.
### **[VI. ARTISTIC & TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS]**
**Art Style:** The visual style is `[Art Style]`.
**Color Palette:** A `[Color Palette]` dominates the scene, creating a cohesive and emotionally resonant image.
**Rendering & Detail:** Rendered with the quality of `[Rendering Engine/Method]`. The image is `[Detail Level]`, with tack-sharp focus, incredible texture detail on buildings and clouds, and realistic physics in the rain and wind. Include effects like `[Post-Processing Effects]`.
—
### **How to Use This Dynamic Prompt**
1. **Choose a section:** Start with any section you want to customize, like `[II. ATMOSPHERIC & ENVIRONMENTAL DETAILS]`.
2. **Select a variable:** Pick a placeholder, for example, `[City Style]`.
3. **Fill it in:** Replace the placeholder with a specific descriptor. For example, replace `[City Style]` with “futuristic cyberpunk metropolis”.
4. **Repeat:** Continue this process for all placeholders to create a highly detailed and specific prompt. You don’t have to fill in every single one, but the more you do, the more control you have over the final output.
### **Glossary of Potential Variables**
* **`[City Style]`**: Neo-noir, futuristic cyberpunk, gothic revival, art deco, modern metropolis, dystopian brutalist, coastal city.
* **`[Lightning Type]`**: Overwhelming cloud-to-ground fork lightning, intricate spider lightning, massive superbolt, widespread sheet lightning.
* **`[Cloud Formation]`**: Apocalyptic supercell, dense cumulonimbus clouds, roiling mammatus clouds, swirling vortex.
* **`[Precipitation Type]`**: Torrential sheeting rain, driving horizontal rain, light drizzle, thick downpour with visible droplets.
* **`[Surface Condition]`**: Glistening and wet, covered in deep puddles, slick with moisture.
* **`[Wind Effects]`**: Debris swirling in the air, flags tearing, trees bending violently, rain being blown into mist.
* **`[Lightning Structure]`**: A single, clean bolt; a chaotic web of multiple tendrils; a thick, ribbon-like strike.
* **`[Strike Target]`**: The tallest skyscraper’s antenna, a central clock tower, a suspension bridge, an open plaza.
* **`[Lightning Color]`**: Brilliant electric white-blue, ominous crimson red, ethereal violet, sickly green.
* **`[Light Quality]`**: Blindingly bright, pulsating, flickering, ethereal and glowing.
* **`[Secondary Effects]`**: St. Elmo’s fire, arc flashes on power lines, glowing ionized air.
* **`[Key Architectural Features]`**: Neon-drenched billboards and holographic ads, soaring glass towers, ancient stone cathedrals and gargoyles, metallic sky-bridges.
* **`[Building Materials]`**: Reflective chrome and glass, dark weathered stone, gritty concrete and steel.
* **`[City Scale]`**: A dense, claustrophobic downtown; a sprawling urban expanse; a skyline seen from a distance.
* **`[Urban Light Type]`**: Warm yellow incandescent lights, cool blue and magenta neon signs, flickering fluorescent office lights.
* **`[Camera Angle]`**: Extreme high-angle aerial view, dramatic low-angle street-level perspective, shot from a skyscraper window looking out, dynamic drone shot.
* **`[Lens Type]`**: Ultra-wide angle, telephoto, anamorphic.
* **`[Perspective Effect]`**: Epic scale, intense vertigo, compressed depth.
* **`[Mood]`**: Awe-inspiring and epic, dark and foreboding, chaotic and terrifying, moody and atmospheric.
* **`[Art Style]`**: Cinematic photorealism, hyper-detailed digital painting, moody concept art, stylized anime.
* **`[Color Palette]`**: High-contrast palette of deep blues and purples with electric highlights; a monochromatic scheme with stark whites; a cyberpunk palette of magenta, cyan, and yellow.
* **`[Rendering Engine/Method]`**: Unreal Engine 5, Octane Render, V-Ray, cinematic CGI.
* **`[Detail Level]`**: Hyper-detailed, intricate, 8K UHD, photorealistic.
* **`[Post-Processing Effects]`**: Volumetric lighting, god rays, lens flare, motion blur, specular reflections, chromatic aberration.
—
—
### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is a complete, ready-to-use prompt generated from the template above, demonstrating how the variables come together to create a vivid and precise instruction for the AI.
**(This is the prompt you would copy and paste into an AI generator)**
**Cinematic VFX shot of a massive lightning storm engulfing a futuristic cyberpunk metropolis. The atmosphere is charged with raw, electrical energy. The primary focus is on the dramatic interaction between the intricate spider lightning and the urban architecture, emphasizing the scale and power of the storm.**
**The sky is dominated by an apocalyptic supercell cloud formation that is churning and dark, illuminated from within by constant flashes of sheet lightning, creating a sense of immense depth and turmoil. The scene is drenched in torrential sheeting rain, which catches the ambient light from the city and the flashes from the storm. The streets are glistening and wet, covered in deep puddles that create vivid reflections of the neon signs and lightning.**
**A colossal web of spider lightning, characterized by its chaotic web of multiple tendrils, crawls across the entire sky, with one major bolt striking the antenna of the tallest skyscraper. The lightning glows with a powerful, ethereal violet and electric cyan hue, casting harsh, dramatic shadows. The light has a blindingly bright quality. The air is filled with glowing ionized air and arc flashes on the elevated transit lines.**
**The city is a futuristic cyberpunk cityscape, featuring neon-drenched billboards, holographic advertisements, and metallic sky-bridges connecting soaring glass towers. The buildings are constructed from reflective chrome and dark, wet composites. The view showcases a dense, claustrophobic downtown urban canyon.**
**The scene is captured from a dramatic low-angle street-level perspective with an ultra-wide angle lens, creating a sense of intense vertigo and epic scale. The composition uses the reflection in a street puddle as a foreground element, with the main lightning strike on the skyscraper serving as the main anchor point in the upper third of the frame. The overall mood is awe-inspiring and epic, yet foreboding.**
**The visual style is cinematic photorealism. A high-contrast cyberpunk color palette of deep violets, electric cyans, and hot magentas dominates the scene. Rendered with the quality of Unreal Engine 5, the image is hyper-detailed and 8K UHD, with tack-sharp focus. Include dramatic post-processing effects like volumetric lighting, intense specular reflections on all wet surfaces, and subtle chromatic aberration on the brightest lightning bolts.**