Graphic & material
Layered silhouette
Objects get no interior at all. Depth is told entirely by how much grey haze sits between one black shape and the next.
What to look at
- 01Shapes solid black, no interior detail
- 02Haze density standing in for distance
- 03Silhouette alone carrying recognition
Prompts
The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.
Character prompt
Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.
layered silhouette 2D game character, solid black shape with no interior detail, only a faint pale eye glow, readable purely as outline, soft atmospheric haze behind
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
layered silhouette terrain, near-black solid shapes with almost no interior detail, separated only by layers of atmospheric grey haze, soft film grain, monochrome palette
Background prompt
Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.
A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as layered silhouettes: near-black solid shapes with almost no interior detail, separated into depth layers purely by atmospheric grey haze, monochrome with soft film grain. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.
Games that made this look known
LIMBO · Badland
Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.
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The prompts are free to take. Generating with them uses credits.