A highly detailed and poetic prompt for generating layered 3D oriental papercut art featuring a woman on an endless staircase in the clouds with intricate textures and lighting.
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The subject theme is "{argument name="theme" default="she walks along the endless long stairs to the second heaven"}."
The core narrative of the scene is: a young oriental woman walking alone along a huge paper art staircase that seems to have no end towards the high sky, with a vast sea of clouds beneath and on both sides, and one after another paper-carved arches and seas of light extending towards the sky ahead. She has already walked very far, and before continuing to climb higher, her body still faces forward, but she gently looks back at a certain step of the staircase, looking at the old world that has been swallowed by the sea of clouds behind her. Her look back is not hesitation, but a final quiet confirmation; in the next moment, she will continue upwards.
The main character is an oriental adult female with a visual age of about {argument name="age" default="25"}, tough, mature, awake, and independent, with the courage of walking alone. The character has clean bone structure, a narrow oval face, long and narrow apricot eyes, and a calm and restrained gaze. When looking back, her expression is firm and calm, with a sense of relief after completing the farewell, not sad, not crying, and showing no hesitation.
The character's black long hair is tied low, with part of the long hair and the ends blown backwards and to the side by the high-altitude wind, gradually extending into several slender hollowed-out paper ribbons. She wears a simple small hollowed-out flower crown and a very small amount of light gold paper art hair accessories, keeping the headwear light and exquisite, not complex or high.
The character wears an ivory white and mist blue multi-layered paper art long dress. The skirt is composed of a large number of long paper strips, cloud pattern paper layers, curved clothing pieces, and slender silk ribbons layered together. Ivory white is the main body, mist blue is used for the inner skirt and local paper pieces, and a very small amount of light gold strokes are added to the edges and hollowed structures. The outer silk ribbon has dense arch patterns, cloud patterns, and oriental geometric hollowed patterns, pulled behind the character by the wind, forming a long and smooth paper art trail. The clothing has clear paper thickness, layering, real paper fibers, finely cut edges, slight creases, and high-precision hollowed patterns.
The dream carrier is "endless paper art long stairs."
The entire scene uses a huge paper art long staircase as the absolute spatial main axis. The staircase starts from the foreground at the very bottom of the screen and extends all the way to the center above the screen with a strong perspective relationship, becoming thinner as it goes further, eventually disappearing into the dazzling light of the sky at a very high point. The number of steps is extremely large, continuous, long, and almost endless, forming a clear sense of "ascending to heaven."
On both sides of the long stairs are layers of huge, three-dimensional paper-carved cloud seas. The clouds are not ordinary soft clouds, but are composed of a large number of cirrus paper pieces of different thicknesses, circular paper layers, hollowed cloud patterns, and three-dimensional paper-carved structures stacked together. The foreground clouds are huge and thick, the middle ground gradually shrinks, and the background extends all the way to the horizon, forming a strong scale reduction.
On both sides and above the endless long stairs are continuous huge paper art arches. The arches are composed of ivory white paper columns, light gold hollowed edges, fine oriental patterns, and curved paper-carved structures, repeating from the foreground to the background, forming a strong spatial order and scale rhythm. The arches near the foreground are tall enough to exceed the screen edges, while the distant arches gradually shrink and are densely arranged, eventually disappearing into the sky sea of light, making the entire space like a huge paper art sacred path leading to the "second heaven."
The scene features long stairs, continuous arches, seas of clouds, flying birds, distant mountains, and a glowing sky. The paper art distant mountains reveal part of the blue-gray mist blue peaks from between the clouds as a background scale reference; a small number of white paper birds fly in space at different distances, some passing through the arches in the near distance, and some becoming tiny silhouettes in the far distance, further strengthening the depth of the scene.
The character is located in a small position in the center of the lower half of the screen, accounting for only a small proportion of the overall scene. Her body is mainly oriented towards the top of the long stairs, and both feet have already stepped on a higher level, forming a clear action of continuing to climb. Her waist and shoulders still point forward, but her head and upper body turn slightly back behind her, forming a natural two-thirds look-back posture. Her gaze looks over her shoulder towards the camera or down behind her, her actions elegant and restrained, avoiding exaggerated body twisting.
One hand hangs naturally or lightly holds part of the skirt, and the other hand is near the body to maintain balance. The skirt, long hair, and hollowed-out silk ribbons are affected by the high-altitude wind and extend backwards, forming a reverse flow with the upward perspective of the long stairs, giving the character a moment of pause while maintaining the dynamics of continuing forward.
The overall papercut structure uses a paper-page road style. The foreground uses huge stairs, cloud paper layers, and close-range arches to establish a sense of spatial pressure; the character is in the middle-foreground; the middle ground continues to arrange countless stairs, clouds, and arches; the background is occupied by strong sky light, extremely distant peaks, and an endless paper art sacred path. At least four clear spatial layers must be formed.
The overall color scheme is ivory white, mist blue, and light gold, with a small amount of silver-white embellishment. Ivory white is used for the stairs, clouds, and main body of the arches, mist blue is used for distant mountains, cloud shadows, and the inner layer of the character's clothing, light gold is only used for the hollowed edges of the arches, staircase patterns, clothing edges, and local light highlights, and silver-white is used for the high sky light and part of the paper layers' light transmission. The overall look is bright, clear, and high-end, without using a unified warm yellow filter, not overall white, and not overall blue.
The lighting uses high-altitude warm white and cold white mixed sky light. The strongest light source comes from the end of the long stairs at the very top of the screen, forming a strong but soft longitudinal light source that leads the entire stairs to high places. The near arches, character's shoulders and neck, hair, skirt, and staircase edges have light gold and silver-white contour light. There are clear but not overly heavy natural shadows between the paper layers, and the dark parts of the cloud sea still retain ivory white and mist blue layers.
All characters, clothing, clouds, stairs, arches, birds, and distant mountains are unified using high-precision three-dimensional papercutting and paper carving language. Clearly show the real paper thickness, paper fibers, slight creases, interlayer shadows, hand-cut edges, fine hollowed patterns, and paper layer light transmission effects. No real people standing in paper art backgrounds, no plastic 3D, no ordinary CG architecture.
The composition must strengthen the epic sense of scale: the character is significantly small, the long stairs are huge and almost endless, the continuous arches are much larger than the character, the sea of clouds is massive, and the distant depth is extremely long. The scene should make the character appear lonely but firm, like a person moving forward towards a higher place in a vast paper art mythological world.
The overall feel is that of an epic modern oriental paper carving art, a giant paper art installation, a mythological sacred path, a gateway to a heavenly temple, and the spatial shock of a movie poster. The character is only an emotional anchor in the scene; the true visual protagonist is the magnificent space formed by the "endless long stairs + continuous giant arches + sea of clouds + high sky light."
Supplementary requirements: Strengthen the sense of endless extension of the stairs, the character must be significantly small; the look-back posture should be natural and restrained, with the body still facing high; the sea of clouds and arch structures should form a strong sense of pressure and epic depth; the high places must be bright and transparent, not grayish, and not large areas of dead white.
Negative prompts: Minors, child-like face, real photography, ordinary anime, plastic 3D, resin, clay, felt, children's handicraft, Spring Festival window grilles, ordinary stairs, modern architectural stairs, ordinary stone steps, indoor stairs, character proportion too large, character close-up, frontal standing posture, completely turning to face the camera, exaggerated body twisting, sad crying, sense of hesitation, arches too small, stairs too short, sea of clouds scale too small, no depth, crowded scene, no background, chaotic paper layers, blurred paper edges, dead black dark parts, grayish, overall yellowish, overall whitish, material disconnection between character and paper art scene, hand deformity, extra characters, text, Logo, watermark.
