Stop Motion Miniature

Film · Miniature · Practical Effects

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Stop Motion Miniature, A built set photographed close, with every seam left visible — Miniature town under studio light·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A photograph of a practical film miniature: a small town built from card, foam and balsa on a studio table. Photographed low and close with a wide lens as if full scale, but with visible glue seams, foam texture standing in for rock, a painted card backdrop and dust hanging in a hard beam of light. Shallow depth of field that gives the scale away, warm tungsten studio lighting.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1536 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Ask for the seams. Perfect miniatures read as renders.
2A painted card backdrop is the fastest way to signal a built set.
3Shallow depth of field is the tell that makes the trick charming rather than hidden.