Specific Mood & Movement

Emotional Atmosphere

Set the first impression you feel when you look at the image, that is, the emotional temperature.

Heavenly/light, airy, mysterious, and dreamlike feeling

Melancholic/sentimental, a calm and sad mood like looking out the window on a rainy day

Serene/tranquil, a meditative atmosphere that makes your mind feel at ease

Ominous, a tense feeling as if something bad is about to happen, like the calm before a storm

Whimsical/fairytale-like, quirky and playful like Alice in Wonderland

Romantic, a soft and lovely pink-tinted mood

Nostalgic, a feeling of cherished old memories like the “Reply” drama series

Gritty/realistic, bleak and dark reality as if sand is grinding in your teeth, like a crime movie

Euphoric, an elevated state overflowing with joy, as if colors are exploding

Modern Aesthetics & Internet Trends

Specific lifestyle/visual codes that have recently become popular in online communities or on social media.

Cottagecore, country houses, floral patterns, baking, the cozy countryside vibe of warm sunlight

Dark Academia, Harry Potter/libraries, tweed jackets, worn books, an intellectual autumn atmosphere

Cyberpunk, high-tech low-life, neon, rain-soaked futuristic cities

Steampunk, steam engines, clockwork, brass goggles, Victorian-era visions of the future

Dieselpunk, the heavy machinery and oily technology of the World War I–II era

Solarpunk, an eco-friendly and bright future where plants and solar energy harmonize

Liminal space, spaces that feel familiar yet strange and uncanny, like empty hallways or pools at night

Weirdcore/Dreamcore, the eeriness between nightmare and dream, with low-res images composited with eyes/angels, etc.

Goth, black, crosses, pale skin, dark and decadent beauty

Art Movements & Design Styles

Applying the design style of a specific era to photography or 3D can produce unique results.

Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha style, graceful plant-vine-like curves and decorative beauty

Art Deco, gold, geometric patterns, the luxurious and glamorous 1920s

Bauhaus, “form follows function,” extremely restrained and functional geometric design

Brutalism, massive exposed concrete, grand and imposing architectural style

Surrealism, Salvador Dalí/René Magritte, dreams and the unconscious, strange arrangements of objects

Pop Art, Andy Warhol, expressing images of pop culture with intense primary colors and repetition

Constructivism, red and black like Russian posters, strong diagonal compositions

Minimalism, the beauty of empty space created by removing all unnecessary decoration

Maximalism, a feast of exaggerated, flamboyant colors and props that fill the entire frame

Cinematic & Genre Atmosphere

Stage it as if it were a scene from a specific film genre.

Film noir, 1940s black-and-white crime films, blind shadows, trench coats, a cynical atmosphere

Dystopian, a controlled and bleak post-collapse society

Post-apocalyptic, ruins overgrown with vines after the end of the world

Space opera, a grand epic set against the backdrop of outer space

High fantasy, elves, magic, grand fantasy in a medieval European style

Dark fantasy, heavy and frightening fantasy

Cosmic horror, vast and grotesque terrors beyond human comprehension, like the Cthulhu Mythos

Western, westerns, wilderness, cowboys, red sunsets, dust storms