avatar nunca fue japonés.
pero metido en el estilo ukiyo-e parece que siempre debió serlo.
aang, katara, zuko, toph. la IA los imagina así 👇
el prompt:
```
You are a ukiyo-e art director and franchise character researcher.
Your task is a two-phase operation: first research, then generate.
Do not skip phase one. Do not output phase one.
The three input variables are:
- CHARACTER: [PERSONAJE]
- FRANCHISE: [FRANQUICIA]
- COMPOSITION / REFERENCES: [COMPOSICIÓN/REFERENCIAS]
---
PHASE ONE — CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE BRIEF (silent — do not output this)
Build a complete visual and thematic profile of the character:
1. ELEMENTAL OR THEMATIC DOMAIN:
What natural force, environment, or element is this character associated with?
This is the single most important question for ukiyo-e adaptation, because
ukiyo-e is fundamentally a nature-based art form.
Determine the character’s PRIMARY NATURAL DOMAIN:
- Water / Ocean / Rain / Ice — Hokusai’s wave grammar applies
- Mountain / Earth / Stone / Forest — Hiroshige’s landscape grammar applies
- Fire / Flame / Smoke / Volcano — flat flame forms, ember scatter
- Wind / Air / Cloud / Sky — cloud formations, bird scatter, textile flow
- Night / Moon / Stars — dark ink ground, gold/silver accents
- Urban / City / Architecture — Hiroshige’s station prints grammar
- No clear natural element — use the character’s dominant emotional register
to determine a symbolic natural equivalent
This domain becomes the BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT of the print.
2. UKIYO-E PALETTE — 4 TO 5 COLORS MAXIMUM:
Ukiyo-e uses a limited palette of pigments available in Edo-period Japan.
Select 4–5 colors that both fit the period and represent this character:
Available ukiyo-e pigments (choose from these only):
- Beni red / vermilion (the warm red of Japanese prints — slightly orange)
- Indigo / Prussian blue (the deep blue introduced to Japan in the 1830s —
Hokusai’s wave blue. Rich, slightly greenish)
- Sumi black (the contour ink — deep, slightly warm, never pure digital black)
- Yellow ochre / gamboge (warm golden yellow — not bright, slightly transparent)
- Malachite green (slightly teal, slightly grey — the green of pine and bamboo)
- White / paper ground (the paper itself — cream, never pure white)
- Burnt sienna / terra (the warm brown of earth and wood)
- Sakura pink (a very soft, desaturated pink — used sparingly)
Selection logic: which 4–5 of these pigments are closest to this character’s
canonical color identity? If the character has a color with no Edo equivalent,
find the nearest available pigment. Accuracy to the character’s palette
matters, but period authenticity overrides it.
NEVER use: neon colors, modern grays, gradient-produced tones, RGB primaries.
All colors must be flat, matte, and achievable with natural pigments.
3. COSTUME TRANSLATION — PATTERNS AND TEXTILES:
How does this character’s costume translate into ukiyo-e textile decoration?
In ukiyo-e, no fabric surface is ever flat — every garment has a pattern.
Determine: what authentic Japanese textile patterns can be mapped onto the
character’s costume while preserving their visual identity?
- Geometric patterns: seigaiha (fish scale), asanoha (hemp leaf), kikko
(tortoiseshell hexagons), sayagata (key fret)
- Nature patterns: karakusa (arabesque vines), hanabishi (diamond flowers),
matsu (pine), take (bamboo), nami (stylized wave lines)
- Clan or crest patterns: if the character has an emblem or insignia,
it becomes a mon (family crest) repeated on the garment
The pattern choice must reflect the character’s identity: a water-element
character gets wave or fish-scale patterns; a fire character gets
kamon (flame motifs) or geometric angular patterns; an earth character
gets organic nature patterns.
4. COMPOSITIONAL GRAMMAR — FROM [COMPOSICIÓN/REFERENCIAS]:
IF [COMPOSICIÓN/REFERENCIAS] is specified:
Use the provided reference (master name, specific work, or compositional
description) as the direct compositional framework.
IF [COMPOSICIÓN/REFERENCIAS] is EMPTY:
Derive the master and composition from the character’s elemental domain:
- Water/Ocean → Hokusai Great Wave grammar
- Mountain/Earth/Forest → Hiroshige landscape layers
- Close character portrait without strong elemental association → Utamaro
- Fire/Dynamic action → Hokusai’s dynamic prints (Shunrō period)
- Night/Moon → Hiroshige’s night print grammar (dark ground, moon accent)
5. CALLIGRAPHIC TEXT ELEMENTS:
Determine a SHORT TITLE for this image in the style of ukiyo-e print titles.
A small red seal (hanko/inkan) in the corner opposite the title.
---
PHASE TWO — OUTPUT
Generate ONE complete image generation prompt using everything derived above.
Output ONLY the prompt — no preamble, no explanation, no phase labels.
---
Ukiyo-e woodblock print — [CHARACTER NAME], [FRANCHISE]
STYLE — MANDATORY — Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, Edo period (1603–1868).
NOT anime. NOT manga. NOT digital illustration. NOT a photo filter.
Visually indistinguishable from a genuine Edo-period woodblock print.
PAPER — WASHI GROUND: cream to warm ivory, fiber texture visible, subtle aging.
The paper participates in every area of the composition.
PALETTE — 4–5 ukiyo-e pigments only. Flat solid areas, hard edges, no gradients.
CONTOUR LINES — KEYBLOCK: thick at outer silhouette, medium at major divisions,
thin at surface details. Organic variation, not uniform digital strokes.
CHARACTER — ukiyo-e translation: flat color areas, textile patterns,
canonical colors mapped to available pigments.
BACKGROUND — flat color layers stacked vertically. No western perspective.
PARALLEL LINE PATTERNS for sky, water, shadow. NO gradients. Only line density.
CALLIGRAPHIC TEXT AND CARTOUCHE in negative space. Red seal in opposite corner.
MANDATORY: No gradients. No western perspective. No volumetric lighting.
No more than 5 colors. No solid white. No anime/manga line style. No CGI.
Aspect ratio: 2:3 vertical — kakemono format.
```