Designs and style prompts

Create a design, write a style prompt describing the film's look, and make it active. Everything generated from then on carries that style. Only one design is active at a time; switching is instant and affects future generations only.

The Production Design view in the project workspace

What a design holds

A name, a description for your own reference, and a style prompt, the text appended to every generation in the project. Alongside that sit the model choices, the advanced per-model settings, any LoRAs, and any mood boards.

Set active makes a design the one in force. Deactivate leaves the project with no style prompt at all, which is occasionally what you want when you’re testing whether the style is helping.

Writing a style prompt that works

A style prompt describes how the film looks, never what is in the picture. The subject comes from each entity’s own description.

Say the medium

“Shot on 35mm film”, “digital, clean”, “anamorphic”. This does more work than any other clause.

Say the light

“High-contrast, hard shadows”, “soft overcast daylight”, “practical sources only”.

Say the palette

“Desaturated, cold blues and concrete greys”, “warm amber and deep green”.

Don't name subjects

A style prompt mentioning “a man in a coat” will put a man in a coat in your locations. Keep it to treatment.

Designs soft-delete like everything else, and Show deleted brings them back. Keeping old designs around is useful, because they are a record of looks you tried.