Graphic & material
Ukiyo-e woodblock
Carved lines and flat inked colour, as if printed from wooden blocks. Nature becomes pattern, with curling clouds and combed waves, and the only gradient is the soft fade across the sky.
What to look at
- 01Bold, even key lines like a carved block
- 02Flat muted colour with paper grain showing through
- 03Clouds, waves and leaves turned into pattern
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.
ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print style 2D game character, bold flowing black key lines of even weight, flat areas of muted indigo, vermilion and ochre colour, decorative patterned clothing, visible paper grain
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
ukiyo-e woodblock print terrain: flat areas of muted indigo, ochre and sage colour, stylised repeating pattern marks for grass, waves or stone, subtle wood grain and paper texture, no shading gradients, no noise
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 an ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print: bold flowing black key lines, flat areas of muted indigo, vermilion, ochre and sage, stylised curling clouds and patterned water, a soft bokashi gradient in the sky and visible paper 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
Ōkami · Muramasa: The Demon Blade
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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