Ghibli / Style prompt
Ghibli Seaside-Town Pan
The Kiki's-Delivery / Ponyo / Porco coastal-town wide. Tile-roofs, harbor, sea, soft pastel architecture.
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The prompt
Re-render this image in Studio Ghibli's signature seaside-town register, hand-painted animation direction with layered watercolor 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 layered 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.
Ways to change it
Pick any of these in the gallery and the choice is added to the prompt you copy.
- 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).
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