About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Inspiration
- Language – English
- Category – Urban Energy
- Prompt Title – Person Wishing for Success in City Lights VFX Prompt
Prompt Details
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### **Optimized Dynamic AI Prompt: The Urban Dreamer**
This prompt is engineered to generate powerful, inspirational images of an individual contemplating their future amidst the vibrant, energetic backdrop of a city at night. It is designed as a “dynamic” prompt, using bracketed placeholders `[like this]` that you can easily swap out to customize every aspect of the final image.
**Core Concept:** The image should capture a moment of quiet ambition and profound hope. The subject is not just *in* the city; they are in a dialogue with it. The city’s lights and energy represent the opportunities, challenges, and dreams they aspire to conquer. The overall mood should be inspiring, cinematic, and filled with a sense of limitless potential.
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### **The Dynamic Prompt Structure**
Copy the text block below and replace the bracketed content with your desired elements. Use vivid, descriptive language for best results.
**(I. Primary Subject & Action)**
A cinematic portrait of a `[Gender/Age, e.g., young woman in her mid-20s, determined older man]`, of `[Ethnicity or description, e.g., Japanese descent, with sharp, intelligent features]`. They are dressed in `[Clothing Style, e.g., a stylish trench coat, minimalist tech-wear, a simple hoodie and jeans]`. Their pose is `[Action/Pose, e.g., leaning against a glass balcony, sitting on a rooftop ledge with legs dangling, looking out a rain-streaked window]`, and their expression is one of `[Emotion, e.g., focused determination, quiet hope, thoughtful contemplation]`, gazing out at the sprawling city below.
**(II. The Setting – Urban Vista)**
The scene is set `[Location in City, e.g., on a high-rise penthouse balcony, from a corner office with floor-to-ceiling windows, at a scenic overlook on a hill]`. The city itself is a `[City Style, e.g., futuristic cyberpunk metropolis, a classic New York-style cityscape, a hyper-modern Dubai-inspired skyline]` teeming with life. Key visual elements in the cityscape include `[Key Visual Elements, e.g., flying vehicles leaving light trails, massive holographic advertisements, iconic skyscrapers with glowing logos, a dense grid of traffic arteries]`.
**(III. Atmosphere & Mood)**
The atmosphere is charged with `[Dominant Mood, e.g., palpable ambition and electric energy, a sense of serene optimism, the quiet buzz of endless possibility]`. The `[Weather/Time of Day, e.g., night is crisp and clear after a recent rain, a light fog is rolling in between buildings, it’s the deep blue of twilight]`, causing the city lights to `[Light Interaction, e.g., reflect brilliantly off wet surfaces, diffuse into a soft, ethereal glow, shimmer sharply against the dark sky]`.
**(IV. VFX & Stylistic Light Elements)**
The visual style is heavily influenced by VFX. The image is filled with `[Light Effect 1, e.g., anamorphic lens flares streaking across the frame, a beautiful and pronounced bokeh effect blurring distant lights]`. Swirls of `[Particle Effect, e.g., glowing digital embers, ethereal light particles, subtle cybernetic data streams]`, float in the air, representing the flow of information and energy. `[Light Effect 2, e.g., Long-exposure light trails from traffic create vibrant ribbons of color, neon signs cast a dramatic magenta and cyan glow onto the subject]`.
**(V. Art & Cinematic Style)**
The overall aesthetic is `[Artistic Style, e.g., photorealistic with a cinematic grade, a digital painting with hyper-detailed textures, a high-fashion concept photo]`. The composition and lighting draw inspiration from `[Cinematic Influence, e.g., the neo-noir world of Blade Runner, the sweeping cinematography of Denis Villeneuve, the vibrant energy of a Wong Kar-wai film]`.
**(VI. Technical & Compositional Details)**
This is a `[Camera Angle, e.g., wide-angle shot, medium close-up, dramatic low-angle shot looking up at the subject]`. Captured with a `[Lens Type, e.g., 35mm lens for a natural field of view, 85mm portrait lens for subject separation]`. The `[Dominant Color Palette, e.g., cool palette of electric blues, deep violets, and sharp teals, punctuated by warm bursts of orange and gold]` unifies the scene. The lighting is `[Lighting Description, e.g., dramatic rim lighting from a neon sign, soft ambient light from the city glow]`, sculpting the subject’s features and separating them from the background. Ultra-detailed, intricate details, 8K, high dynamic range (HDR).
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### **How to Use This Dynamic Prompt**
1. **Choose a Section:** Decide which aspect of the image you want to define first (e.g., the subject, the city style).
2. **Replace the Placeholder:** Delete the bracketed text, including the brackets themselves (e.g., `[Gender/Age, e.g., young woman in her mid-20s, determined older man]`), and write in your specific choice (e.g., `a young man in his early 30s`).
3. **Combine and Generate:** Once you have filled in all the placeholders, you will have a single, highly detailed paragraph. Copy and paste this paragraph into your chosen AI image generator (Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, etc.).
#### **Best Practices & Customization Tips:**
* **Be Specific:** Instead of “car,” use “flying vehicle” or “vintage taxi.” Instead of “happy,” use “serenely confident” or “joyfully optimistic.”
* **Mix and Match:** Feel free to blend styles. A “cyberpunk metropolis” can still have “classic architecture.” An “older man” can be dressed in “futuristic tech-wear.”
* **Negative Prompts:** For platforms that support them, consider adding a negative prompt to refine the output. Common negative prompts include: `ugly, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, disfigured, poorly drawn face, mutation, extra limbs, extra fingers, cartoon, 2D, painting, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username.`
* **Platform-Specific Modifiers:** For platforms like Midjourney, you can add parameters at the very end, such as `–ar 16:9` for a widescreen cinematic aspect ratio or `–style raw` for a more photorealistic look.
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### **Example Prompt (Ready to Use)**
Here is one complete, ready-to-use prompt generated from the structure above. You can copy and paste this directly into an AI art generator to see it in action.
**Prompt:**
A cinematic portrait of a young woman in her mid-20s, of African descent, with her hair in intricate braids. She is dressed in a stylish, minimalist black tech-wear jacket. Her pose is leaning against a sleek glass balcony on a high-rise penthouse, and her expression is one of focused determination, gazing out at the sprawling city below.
The scene is set on the penthouse balcony overlooking a futuristic cyberpunk metropolis reminiscent of Neo-Tokyo. Key visual elements in the cityscape include flying vehicles leaving vibrant light trails and massive, shimmering holographic advertisements for fictional corporations.
The atmosphere is charged with palpable ambition and electric energy. The night is crisp and clear after a recent rain, causing the city lights to reflect brilliantly off wet surfaces and the glass of the surrounding skyscrapers.
The visual style is heavily influenced by VFX. The image is filled with anamorphic lens flares streaking horizontally across the frame and a beautiful, pronounced bokeh effect that turns distant lights into soft, glowing orbs. Ethereal light particles, like digital embers, float gently in the air around her. Long-exposure light trails from traffic far below create vibrant ribbons of color.
The overall aesthetic is hyper-photorealistic with a cinematic color grade. The composition and lighting draw inspiration from the neo-noir world of Blade Runner 2049.
This is a wide-angle shot, capturing both the subject and the immense scale of the city. Captured as if with a 35mm lens for a natural yet immersive field of view. The dominant color palette is a cool palette of electric blues, deep violets, and sharp teals, punctuated by warm bursts of magenta and gold from the neon signs. Dramatic rim lighting from a nearby holographic sign sculpts the subject’s features and separates her from the deep, complex background. Ultra-detailed, intricate details, 8K, HDR.
**Example Negative Prompt (for platforms that support it):**
`blurry, painting, cartoon, disfigured, bad anatomy, watermark, signature, text, extra fingers.`