GPT Image Prompt by @liyue_ai

9:16 vertical format, modern oriental female dream dimensional papercut art, modern oriental papercut art, layered paper cut illustration, dimensional paper sculpture, intricate paper carving, paper diorama, layered shadow box, epic oriental papercraft fantasy, poetic female dreamscape, contemporary oriental art poster.

The theme of the work is "She stands before the Heavenly Gate opens".

The core narrative of the image is: A young oriental woman stands alone before a giant papercraft divine gate leading to the sky. Layer upon layer of doors have slowly opened amidst a sea of clouds and starlight. Behind the gate is an unknown world illuminated by cold white light. She has already walked far forward. Just before entering the Heavenly Gate, her body still faces forward, but she gently turns her head to look back at the old world behind her. This glance back is not hesitation, but a final quiet farewell. For the first time, she truly realizes that what she once thought was the end is actually the entrance to a much vaster world.

The main character is an adult oriental woman visually around 24 years old, clear-headed, independent, bright and brave, with a quiet sense of awe when facing a vast world. She has a small oval face, bright almond eyes, restrained and relaxed eyebrows. When looking back, her gaze is quiet and firm, with a hint of awe and relief after a slight tremor. The face is shaped in a delicate oriental papercraft illustration style, with clear features, not realistic photography, nor overly cartoonish.

The character's long black hair is naturally loose, with much of it blown by the high-altitude wind toward the left rear of the frame. The ends of the hair gradually extend into slender star-trail-shaped hollow paper ribbons. She wears delicate and light pale gold star-and-moon tassel hair ornaments, small star pieces, and crescent moon papercraft decorations. No complex tall crowns are used.

The character's costume is a layered papercraft long dress in ultramarine blue and silver white. The deep ultramarine blue is concentrated on the inner main skirt and larger skirt paper layers, while silver white is used for the outer panels, draped scarf, and hollow patterns. Inside the skirt, there are carved patterns of the Milky Way, moons, stars, clouds, and fine oriental geometric motifs, with occasional pale gold foil lines. The outer draped scarf is long, thin, and light, extending far behind the character in the strong wind, forming a flowing star-trail tail together with the hair. The costume must clearly show paper thickness, layered structure, fine cut edges, paper fibers, slight creases, and high-precision hollow patterns.

The dream carrier is a giant hollow papercraft divine gate.

The main subject of the image is an extremely exaggeratedly scaled giant Heavenly Gate. The gate's height far exceeds the character, occupying most of the upper-middle part of the frame. The gate body is composed of multiple towering papercraft door leaves, continuous inner frames, giant hollow door panels, cloud patterns, star-trail patterns, and oriental temple-style paper carving structures. The door leaves have already opened to both sides, forming a strong vertical visual passage.

The giant gate must be so large that it creates a clear sense of oppression: the door leaves extend upward from both sides of the frame, with the top approaching or exceeding the frame boundary, making the character appear extremely tiny in front of the gate. There are gates within gates; behind the gate, multiple layers of papercraft arches, heavenly steps, and temple outlines continue to appear, forming a very deep multi-layered stage-like space.

In front of the gate is a long silver-white papercraft staircase, extending from the foreground at the bottom of the frame all the way up into the giant gate, and continuing to the glowing temple far behind the gate. The number of steps is very large, with clear perspective of near large and far small. It must feel like a true "path to the sky", not an ordinary short staircase.

The character is positioned in the lower half of the frame, slightly off-center and small, occupying only a very small proportion of the overall image. The body still faces the Heavenly Gate and the high staircase, with the legs in a state of continuing to walk forward, one foot already stepping onto a higher step. The shoulders and waist mainly face forward, but the upper body and head naturally turn slightly backward, forming a roughly two-thirds rear-side looking-back posture.

The character's looking-back angle is natural and restrained; do not turn fully to face the camera. Her gaze looks over her shoulder toward the back of the frame or the camera direction, with a quiet, firm, and clear expression. Her hands naturally maintain a walking posture, one hand gently holding part of the skirt, the other hand naturally hanging down or slightly spreading to the side. The high-altitude wind blows the long hair, skirt, and draped scarf all backward, giving the character a clear forward momentum.

Dream imagery includes: giant gate, sea of clouds, Milky Way, flying birds, long staircase, glowing sky light.

The sides and surroundings of the Heavenly Gate are enveloped by a large area of ultramarine blue and silver white paper-carved sea of clouds. The clouds are composed of many curled, multi-layered paper pieces of varying thickness, forming huge swirling and surging structures on both sides of the gate. Some clouds converge toward the center of the Heavenly Gate, focusing the view on the world behind the opened gate.

The sky is mainly ultramarine blue, filled with fine pale gold star trails, silver white star dots, and a few crescent moon patterns. The star trails rotate around the Heavenly Gate in arc and ring structures, creating a solemn and mysterious mythological sky. A few white paper birds fly through the clouds and around the Heavenly Gate; not too many, mainly used to enhance scale and spatial layering.

The overall papercut structure adopts a multi-layered stage style. The foreground consists of the giant staircase, clouds, and the character; the middle ground is the first giant door leaf; the mid-background is the second and third papercraft divine gates and sea of clouds; the extreme background is the heavenly palace, heavenly steps, or temple outlines illuminated by cold white light. At least four to six distinct spatial layers should be formed, reinforcing the epic depth of "gates within gates, heavens beyond heavens".

The overall color scheme is mainly ultramarine blue, silver white, and cold white, with a small amount of pale gold accents. Ultramarine blue must remain vivid and deep but not overpowering to black; silver white is used for the gate body, clouds, long staircase, and outer layers of the costume; cold white is used for the core sky light behind the gate; pale gold is only used for star trails, garment edges, door frame details, and local highlights. Colors in different areas should remain clear and independent; do not cover the entire image with a uniform blue filter.

The lighting design features cold white daylight strongly emanating from the depths of the Heavenly Gate, forming the brightest core visual area of the entire image behind the gate. Cold white and silver light extends along the long staircase toward the character, creating delicate rim light on the character's side face, shoulders, hair strands, skirt, and the edges of the draped scarf. The hollow edges of the door leaves have a clear but soft translucency, with clear and natural shadows between paper layers. Dark areas retain ultramarine blue and light purple layers; do not use pure black.

Emphasize high-precision papercraft texture: The door leaves, sea of clouds, staircase, costume, flying birds, and star trails must all clearly show real paper fibers, subtle creases, paper layer thickness, hand-cut edges, fine hollow patterns, and inter-layer shadows. The image should look like a museum-grade oriental paper carving art installation on a huge scale, not an ordinary illustration background.

The composition emphasizes the huge scale contrast of "tiny character + giant Heavenly Gate + extremely long staircase + multiple door leaves + sea of clouds and starry sky". The character is just an emotional anchor; the true visual protagonist is the towering Heavenly Gate and the world that extends ever higher behind it. The entire image must have a strong sense of oppression, sacredness, ritual, and epic depth.

The overall atmosphere is: quiet awe, reverence, clarity, farewell to the past, about to step into a new world. The character's look back does not express sadness or regret, but "take one last look, then continue forward".

Additional requirements: The character must be noticeably small, the giant gate far larger than the character, reinforcing the oppressive feeling of the Heavenly Gate, the gate-within-gate structure, and the depth of the long staircase; the looking-back posture should be natural, with the body still facing forward; the night sky must be bright and clear, not darkened.

Do not use minors, do not use childish faces, do not use realistic photography, do not use ordinary anime, do not use plastic 3D, do not use resin, clay, felt, do not use children's crafts, do not use Spring Festival window grilles, do not use ordinary door frames, do not use modern doors, do not use ordinary building entrances, do not make the giant gate too small, do not use short staircases, do not make the character too large, do not make the character a half-body close-up, do not face the camera fully frontally, do not exaggerate twisting, do not show sadness or crying, do not show hesitation, do not make the gate body simple and hollow, do not let clouds cover the Heavenly Gate, do not over-accumulate stars, do not make paper layers chaotic, do not blur paper edges, do not use pure black in dark areas, do not make it hazy, do not make the whole image a uniform blue mass, do not make the character's material disjointed from the papercraft scene, do not have deformed hands, do not include extra characters, do not include text, logos, or watermarks.