PromptAway Weekly Ed 003

Explore Cyberpunk, Pixel Art, and Retro Gaming in This Week’s Edition

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Traction
January 21, 2025

This week, we’re diving into three distinct styles of generative art: cinematic cyberpunk action, pixel art, and a nostalgic retro gaming world. Let’s explore how personalization codes can help produce these different aesthetics.

Prompt:
Side angle view of a character sprinting, girl wearing dark blue hooded futuristic outfit with minimalistic designs, wearing black pants, wearing a blue mask that covers the face with glowing blue details on the edges, a hand-drawn painting of full-body character in an action pose in a cyberpunk environment, cinematic look with serious expression, intricate details, painting style with bold brush strokes and sharp contrast, in the style of graphic novel and concept art --p mmel663

Style 1: Cyberpunk Action Concept Art

The artwork depicts a girl in a sleek dark blue hooded outfit. With glowing blue accents on her outfit, the pose is dynamic and powerful.

Actionable Tip:
To achieve this artistic effect, I trained a model with images in the style and you can replicate it with the personalization code --p mmel663 . This works really well for concept-art illustrations, and also for character art in the Arcane-like aesthetics.

Prompt:
A low-poly pixel art character with dark skin, an orange beanie, a brown mustache, wearing a black blazer, white shirt, black pants, and high-top shoes, dodging glowing red laser beams inside a neon-lit museum hallway. The floor is shiny and reflective, a large glowing sign that says 'Pixel Vault' in the background, Minecraft video game graphics style, 3D isometric view, Unreal Engine, dynamic lighting

Style 2: Neon-Lit Pixel Vault

A low-poly pixel art character running through a vibrant neon museum hallway. Featuring a Minecraft-inspired aesthetic with dynamic Unreal Engine lighting, the scene feels modern yet rooted in nostalgic 3D pixel art design.

Actionable Tip:
By emphasizing repeatedly "Minecraft video game graphics style", “low-poly pixel art character”, and “3D isometric view”, it iterates the style that the character and environment should take on.

Prompt:
Character in a pixelated Donkey Kong world, menacing ape at the top of the screen tossing barrels, a series of pixelated ladders, barrels rolling toward him, in the style of 90s retro pixel game, Donkey Kong game --profile s27ms2n

Style 3: A Custom Donkey Kong World

Step into a 90s pixelated arcade scene inspired by Donkey Kong! A towering ape looms menacingly as a character with a Punk looks ready to enter the fray.

Actionable Tip:
There are actually a few more steps to create this.

Step 1: Create the character in pixel art.
Here I used the prompt: “character is wearing plain orange tshirt and blue jeans and black shoes, background and plain, in the style of pixel art --profile s27ms2n”. The purpose of the plain background is for easy editing into the main image.

Step 2: Put the character into the scene.
Using Midjourney’s Edit function, I removed the background and added the prompt above. At the same time, I’m using the trained Personalisation model --p s27ms2n which is great to create the 90s retro pixel style.

The Power of Personalisation Code

By using custom personalization code --p mmel663 (for cyberpunk painting Style) and --p s27ms2n (for pixel art Style), it allows for greater adherence to my ideal output. Try these modifiers in your next prompts!

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