Photo to Four-Stage Paper Model

Format

Markdown

Inputs

Uploaded_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Four_stage_vertical_image (image)

Turn the uploaded photo into a single vertical image in which the same scene slowly becomes a paper model across four stages.

## 0. Canvas
- The result is one 3:4 vertical image. Even if the uploaded photo is horizontal, the result must be 3:4 vertical. A horizontal result is a failure.
- Divide the canvas top to bottom into exactly four bands. Each band is 25% of the full canvas height. The ratio is 1:1:1:1 and any drift is a failure.
- The bands sit flush against each other. Do not add dividing lines, frames, margin strips, or collage seams. Inside a band there may be breathing room or a paper ground that belongs to that stage's style.
- Each band is a very flat horizontal strip. Lay the subject out sideways and leave air to the left and right.
- Nothing is left over. Each band fills its own 25% to the edges.

## 1. What all four bands must share
The four bands are not four different scenes. They are the one uploaded photo redrawn four times.
- Keep the identity, count, pose, facing, gaze, camera angle, perspective, overlap, left to right placement, and the core relationship of the scene identical across all four bands.
- Align the center of gravity, the subject's size, and where the silhouette sits, band to band. Going down the canvas, the same scene should read as gradually turning into paper.
- The background may be extended sideways or cropped slightly as the scene logic allows. Do not stretch the subject vertically, do not cut off a head or a wheel or any key part, do not change the relationship between people and animals, and do not invent anything the original photo does not contain.
- Pull the colors of all four bands from the uploaded photo. Keep the original warm to cool relationship and the scene's signature color, and only take out saturation and muddy tints. Do not introduce a color family the original does not have.

## 2. Band one: the original photo
Leave the uploaded photo as a photograph. The other three bands start from here.
- Keep the identity, count, face, fur pattern, structure, proportion, pose, gaze, natural light and shadow, and the original color exactly as they are.
- Do not turn it into an illustration, do not change the material, do not rebuild it in three dimensions.
- To fit the flat strip you may extend the side background in a way that follows the original scene's logic, or crop slightly where it does not hurt the subject. Nothing else.
- No heavy retouching, no smeared skin, no oversaturation, no added objects.

## 3. Band two: flat acrylic paper illustration
Move the scene of band one into a hand painting, flat acrylic on paper.
- Drop most of the fine detail and keep only the silhouette and pose that read at a glance.
- Use thin, slightly wobbling hand drawn lines plus a few flat color areas with clean edges. The lines carry the structure, the color areas make the masses.
- No more than four main colors. Keep the paper grain, the brush tracks, and slightly uneven edges.
- The ground is coarse white paper or lightly tinted paper. Suggest the background with very few lines and color areas.
- Do not use colored pencil, crayon, watercolor bleed, line art only, thick oil paint, smooth digital illustration, or any sense of three dimensional volume.

## 4. Band three: layered cut paper
Rebuild the scene of band one out of hand cut paper pieces laid over each other.
- Put one subject at the center and re summarize its silhouette, proportion, and structure by folding, cutting, layering, and occluding. Do not copy the detail mechanically.
- Pick only a few environmental elements from the original and split them into front, middle, and back paper layers. Make the layers obvious through size difference, overlap, and generous empty space.
- Use matte heavy card stock, visible paper fiber, clean cut edges, and a faint real contact shadow falling under the paper. The light is soft and diffuse and the thickness of the stacked layers should be visible.
- Resolve the colors into a limited paper palette drawn from the original. Build the space with a main color, a dark structural color, a pale layer, and a very small accent over a warm ivory or pale paper ground.
- Do not use plastic looking 3D, cheap craft paper tones, fluorescent colors, or complex gradients.

## 5. Band four: paper miniature model
Rebuild the scene of band one as a single miniature model sitting on a small base.
- The angle looks down slightly from above. The scene is cut and set on a small paper base or low plinth with wide empty space around it.
- Do not transfer the detail. Keep the masses simple and the edges crisp so the subject reads at a glance.
- Build the sense of scale with the thickness of the base, the cut cross section, a faint shadow, and a very few tiny details. Add almost nothing that supports the subject and do not create a second focal point.
- Express structure and layering with thin ink lines, flat color areas, faint shadow, and paper grain.
- Do not use cartoon styling, high saturation color clashes, plastic 3D rendering, or a composition that piles the scene up.

## 6. Lettering (important)
- Do not put a single character anywhere in the image. No title, description, label, caption, stage number, number, year, place name, signature, logo, watermark, brand mark, or QR code.
- If the original photo carries a sign or a plate or any lettering, simplify that area in the lower three bands into an unreadable color field or pattern. Do not imitate the letters and redraw them.
- Do not print band numbers, stage names, or style names on the canvas.

## 7. Avoid
Bands that drift off ratio, a horizontal result, dividing lines or frames or margin strips between bands, four bands reading as four different scenes, the subject count or facing changing band to band, objects or backgrounds the original does not have, a vertically stretched subject, cut off heads or feet or wheels, any lettering inside the image, watermarks, logos, plastic gloss, smooth CGI, oversaturation, a stock illustration feel, a template feel.