Reference-Based Cinematic World Expansion
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.

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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.
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| If the result… | Why | Fix |
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| The result drifts from the preview | Too many fields changed at once. | Reuse Reference-Based Cinematic World Expansion as-is first, then change one group — subject, light, or setting. |
| The model over-stylizes the scene | The prose prompt leaves finish and camera underspecified. | Add one camera or lighting sentence and stay on GPT Image 2. |
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