Ghibli Seaside-Town Pan
The Kiki's-Delivery / Ponyo / Porco coastal-town wide. Tile-roofs, harbor, sea, soft pastel architecture.

The prompt
Re-render this image in Studio Ghibli's signature seaside-town register, Hayao Miyazaki direction with Oga-school architectural background painting (Kiki's Delivery Service Koriko, Ponyo coastal town, Porco Adriatic). Wide composition with subject as small figure on rooftop, balcony, harbor pier, or main street, scale-overwhelmed by architecture and coastline. Background dominates 85% of frame: European-style coastal town with red and terracotta tile roofs at multiple depths, cream-and-pastel plaster walls, narrow streets in soft-focus, harbor or sea visible at one edge of frame with small boats or ferries. Sky in upper third pale-blue or golden-hour soft gradient. Architecture rendered with Oga-school wet-on-wet watercolor: roof-tile shadows pooling, plaster wall textures with visible wet-edge, soft suggestion of bougainvillea or laundry strung between buildings. Lighting: warm Mediterranean directional light, soft shadow on rooftop facets, sea-light bouncing fill from below. Cel-animation linework on subject: clean single-weight ink, subject small but visible. Mood: domestic-and-mythic, the small town with all its working life, the sea always at one edge of frame as horizon-of-departure. No legible text, no studio watermark, no specific town signage. Aspect ratio 16:9 matching source. Preserve the subject and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering.
Tuning knobs
- Town-style dial: `Adriatic with white-and-terracotta` (Porco signature) vs `Northern-European red-tile with steep roofs` (Kiki signature) vs `Japanese coastal village with wood-and-tile` (Ponyo)
- Sea-state dial: `calm harbor with boats` (signature) vs `storm-swell on horizon` (dramatic) vs `clear flat sea, single sailboat distant` (austere)
- Subject-vantage dial: `rooftop high-angle` (signature wide) vs `pier or seawall low-angle` (relational) vs `street-level with town rising` (immersed)
- Time-of-day dial: `golden-hour signature` vs `mid-morning bright` vs `dusk with lit windows` (mythic)
Style lineage
Learn the visual culture this draws from: Studio Ghibli (animation studio founded 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata).
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