About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Atmospheric Phenomena
- Language – English
- Category – Sky FX
- Prompt Title – Aurora Borealis Sky Glow VEO 3 Prompt
Prompt Details
This prompt is structured as a dynamic template. You can easily modify the variables within the `[DYNAMIC_VARIABLES]` section to generate an infinite variety of high-quality, specific results suitable for Sky FX in the Atmospheric Phenomena niche.
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### **Optimized AI Prompt: Aurora Borealis Sky Glow VEO 3**
This prompt is designed to act as a master template. The structure guides the AI to generate a highly detailed, physically accurate, and cinematically beautiful visual effect. The term “VEO 3” is interpreted here as **V**isual **E**ffects **O**ptimized, **Version 3.0**, signaling to the AI a high standard of quality, realism, and complexity suitable for professional VFX work.
#### **How to Use This Dynamic Prompt**
1. Review the `[DYNAMIC_VARIABLES]` section at the end of the prompt template.
2. Choose the desired characteristics for your scene (e.g., colors, intensity, cloud cover).
3. Replace the placeholder text (e.g., `[Primary_Colors]`, `[Aurora_Shape]`) with your chosen descriptions.
4. Copy and paste the entire modified prompt into your AI image or video generation platform.
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### **The Dynamic Prompt Template**
**(Start of Prompt)**
**`[PROMPT_HEADER]`**
Act as a cinematic VFX artist and meteorologist specializing in hyper-realistic atmospheric phenomena. Your task is to generate a visual effect sequence for a dynamic skybox, designated “Aurora Borealis Sky Glow VEO 3.” The output must be of the highest fidelity, suitable for 8K film production and real-time rendering in a next-generation game engine like Unreal Engine 5. The focus is on the breathtaking beauty and scientific accuracy of the aurora’s interaction with the upper atmosphere.
**`[SCENE_DESCRIPTION]`**
**Core Subject:** A vast, wide-angle celestial panorama dominated by a spectacular Aurora Borealis. The aurora is the primary light source, casting an ethereal, dynamic glow across the entire night sky.
**Aurora Characteristics:**
* **Color Palette:** The aurora prominently features a palette of `[Primary_Colors]`. These primary colors are interwoven with subtle, secondary hues of `[Secondary_Colors]`, creating complex, natural gradients at the edges of the light curtains.
* **Shape and Structure:** The aurora manifests as `[Aurora_Shape]`. These structures are not static; they exhibit a clear sense of motion, `[Aurora_Motion]`, as if being blown by a celestial solar wind. The edges of the aurora have a `[Edge_Definition]` quality, while the core is intensely luminous.
* **Intensity and Luminosity:** The aurora’s brightness is at `[Intensity_Level]`. This powerful light creates a diffuse, volumetric glow that illuminates the upper atmosphere, with visible god rays and crepuscular rays emanating from the most intense parts of the light curtain. The light has a translucent, layered quality, allowing stars to be visible through the thinner sections.
**Atmospheric Conditions:**
* **Sky Clarity:** The night sky is `[Sky_Clarity]`, with a deep, dark backdrop that emphasizes the aurora’s vibrancy. A dense field of hyper-detailed stars and nebulae, including a visible portion of the Milky Way, is present.
* **Cloud Presence:** The scene includes `[Cloud_Type]` at a `[Cloud_Altitude]`. These clouds are not obscuring but are instead dramatically underlit by the aurora’s glow, picking up its colors and creating a sense of depth and scale. The interaction between the aurora’s light and the clouds is a key feature, with soft, colored light scattering through the water crystals and vapor.
* **Celestial Bodies:** The `[Moon_Phase]` moon is positioned `[Moon_Position]`, providing a gentle, secondary cool-toned rim light on the cloud tops and landscape, contrasting with the aurora’s vibrant colors.
**`[ARTISTIC_STYLE_AND_COMPOSITION]`**
* **Style:** Ultimate photorealism, hyper-detailed, cinematic, and awe-inspiring. The final image should look like a long-exposure photograph taken with a high-end astrophotography camera, combined with the clarity and dynamic range of a professional VFX render.
* **Camera Viewpoint:** A `[Camera_Angle]` shot with a very wide focal length (equivalent to 14mm), capturing the immense scale of the sky. The horizon is low in the frame, dedicating about 80% of the composition to the sky.
* **Compositional Elements:** The composition uses the aurora’s main curtain as a leading line, drawing the viewer’s eye across the sky. The placement of the moon or the brightest part of the Milky Way can be used as a secondary point of interest to balance the frame.
**`[LIGHTING_AND_COLOR_PALETTE]`**
* **Primary Lighting:** The aurora itself. The light is volumetric, casting soft, colored shadows and illuminating the landscape below with an otherworldly glow.
* **Global Illumination:** The entire scene is bathed in the aurora’s reflected light. The `[Environment_Below]` is subtly lit, with snow, water, or rock surfaces catching the `[Primary_Colors]` from the sky.
* **Color Grading:** The color palette is vibrant but natural. Avoid oversaturation. The blacks of space are deep and true, and the colors of the aurora have a wide dynamic range, from soft, faint glows to intensely bright, almost white-hot cores.
**`[TECHNICAL_PARAMETERS_VFX]`**
* **Rendering Quality:** Rendered with the quality of Octane Render or V-Ray, emphasizing physically-based light transport, volumetric lighting, and atmospheric scattering.
* **Detail Level:** Extreme detail (8K resolution). Every star is a sharp point of light, cloud textures are intricate and wispy, and the structure of the aurora has fine, filament-like details.
* **Effects:** Subtle lens flare on the brightest stars and the moon, a slight chromatic aberration at the edges of the frame to enhance realism, and no digital noise.
* **Aspect Ratio:** Cinematic widescreen, 16:9 or 2.39:1.
**`[REFINEMENT_AND_NEGATIVES]`**
* **Avoid:** Flat, 2D-looking skies, artificial or neon colors, sharp or pixelated edges, light pollution, airplanes, satellites, or any man-made objects. The aurora should not look like a simple gradient or overlay; it must have depth, texture, and structure. Ensure the clouds look like they are part of the scene and lit by the sky, not a separate layer. Avoid any visual elements that break the sense of immense scale and natural wonder.
**(End of Prompt)**
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### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is the above template filled out with specific variables to generate a particular scene.
**(Start of Example Prompt)**
**`[PROMPT_HEADER]`**
Act as a cinematic VFX artist and meteorologist specializing in hyper-realistic atmospheric phenomena. Your task is to generate a visual effect sequence for a dynamic skybox, designated “Aurora Borealis Sky Glow VEO 3.” The output must be of the highest fidelity, suitable for 8K film production and real-time rendering in a next-generation game engine like Unreal Engine 5. The focus is on the breathtaking beauty and scientific accuracy of the aurora’s interaction with the upper atmosphere.
**`[SCENE_DESCRIPTION]`**
**Core Subject:** A vast, wide-angle celestial panorama dominated by a spectacular Aurora Borealis. The aurora is the primary light source, casting an ethereal, dynamic glow across the entire night sky.
**Aurora Characteristics:**
* **Color Palette:** The aurora prominently features a palette of **vibrant emerald green and deep magenta**. These primary colors are interwoven with subtle, secondary hues of **soft cyan and faint violet**, creating complex, natural gradients at the edges of the light curtains.
* **Shape and Structure:** The aurora manifests as **multiple, overlapping, shimmering curtains of light, with sharp, defined pillar-like rays (rayed arcs)**. These structures are not static; they exhibit a clear sense of motion, **slowly undulating and dancing from left to right**, as if being blown by a celestial solar wind. The edges of the aurora have a **soft, feathery, and translucent** quality, while the core is intensely luminous.
* **Intensity and Luminosity:** The aurora’s brightness is at a **high, dramatic peak (G3 Geomagnetic Storm level)**. This powerful light creates a diffuse, volumetric glow that illuminates the upper atmosphere, with visible god rays and crepuscular rays emanating from the most intense parts of the light curtain. The light has a translucent, layered quality, allowing stars to be visible through the thinner sections.
**Atmospheric Conditions:**
* **Sky Clarity:** The night sky is **perfectly clear and transparent**, with a deep, dark backdrop that emphasizes the aurora’s vibrancy. A dense field of hyper-detailed stars and nebulae, including a visible portion of the Milky Way arching across the sky, is present.
* **Cloud Presence:** The scene includes **low-altitude, wispy cirrus clouds drifting slowly near the horizon**. These clouds are not obscuring but are instead dramatically underlit by the aurora’s glow, picking up its colors and creating a sense of depth and scale. The interaction between the aurora’s light and the clouds is a key feature, with soft, colored light scattering through the ice crystals.
* **Celestial Bodies:** The **waxing crescent** moon is positioned **low on the horizon, nearly set**, providing a gentle, secondary cool-toned rim light on the cloud tops and landscape, contrasting with the aurora’s vibrant colors.
**`[ARTISTIC_STYLE_AND_COMPOSITION]`**
* **Style:** Ultimate photorealism, hyper-detailed, cinematic, and awe-inspiring. The final image should look like a long-exposure photograph taken with a Sony A7S III camera, combined with the clarity and dynamic range of a professional VFX render.
* **Camera Viewpoint:** A **dramatic low-angle** shot with a very wide focal length (equivalent to 14mm), capturing the immense scale of the sky. The horizon is low in the frame, dedicating about 80% of the composition to the sky.
* **Compositional Elements:** The composition uses the aurora’s main curtain as a leading line, drawing the viewer’s eye from the middle-left towards the upper-right of the frame. The placement of the brightest part of the Milky Way is used as a secondary point of interest to balance the frame.
**`[LIGHTING_AND_COLOR_PALETTE]`**
* **Primary Lighting:** The aurora itself. The light is volumetric, casting soft, colored shadows and illuminating the landscape below with an otherworldly glow.
* **Global Illumination:** The entire scene is bathed in the aurora’s reflected light. The **snow-covered mountain peaks and a frozen lake** below are subtly lit, with the snow and ice surfaces catching the **emerald green and magenta** from the sky.
* **Color Grading:** The color palette is vibrant but natural. Avoid oversaturation. The blacks of space are deep and true, and the colors of the aurora have a wide dynamic range, from soft, faint glows to intensely bright, almost white-hot cores.
**`[TECHNICAL_PARAMETERS_VFX]`**
* **Rendering Quality:** Rendered with the quality of Octane Render or V-Ray, emphasizing physically-based light transport, volumetric lighting, and atmospheric scattering.
* **Detail Level:** Extreme detail (8K resolution). Every star is a sharp point of light, cloud textures are intricate and wispy, and the structure of the aurora has fine, filament-like details.
* **Effects:** Subtle lens flare on the brightest stars and the moon, a slight chromatic aberration at the edges of the frame to enhance realism, and no digital noise.
* **Aspect Ratio:** Cinematic widescreen, 16:9.
**`[REFINEMENT_AND_NEGATIVES]`**
* **Avoid:** Flat, 2D-looking skies, artificial or neon colors, sharp or pixelated edges, light pollution, airplanes, satellites, or any man-made objects. The aurora should not look like a simple gradient or overlay; it must have depth, texture, and structure. Ensure the clouds look like they are part of the scene and lit by the sky, not a separate layer. Avoid any visual elements that break the sense of immense scale and natural wonder.
**(End of Example Prompt)**