# Reference-Based Cinematic World Expansion

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Game Art (@library.game.art)](/@library.game.art.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: 3D render, architecture
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Using the provided reference image as the visual civilization seed, expand it into a new cinematic world scene that keeps the same grand East Asian fantasy design language, monumental scale, intricate architecture-first worldbuilding, and ultra-detailed realism, but shift the setting from a luminous cloud palace into an ancient mechanical ruin on the ground. Replace the gilded celestial temple environment with colossal circular ring structures, giant embedded gears, heavy industrial stone-and-metal architecture, broken conduits, and overgrown ruins with pale flowering trees. Change the mood to cold, misty, desaturated blue-gray lighting with soft atmospheric fog, while preserving the epic, awe-inspiring worldbuilding feel from the reference. Add 1 lone wandering swordsman seen from behind in the foreground, wearing flowing white robes and carrying a sheathed sword, centered beneath the largest ring to emphasize scale. Make it feel like a frame from a high-budget fantasy film, with extremely rich environmental detail and a cohesive visual language derived from the reference image.
```

## About

This prompt turns a single reference scene into a new but stylistically consistent cinematic worldbuilding image, useful for expanding a concept into broader settings for films, games, or visual development.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.game.art on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/reference-based-cinematic-world-expansion-f7hkrd
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