Turn a Person into an Original Gravity Falls Character

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

reference_photo (image) · Required style_references (image) · Required

Outputs

original_character_illustration (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Use the person's photograph (${reference-photo}) only as a reference for gender, approximate age, build, personality, pose, hairstyle, overall silhouette, and clothing color palette. Transform the person into a fully realized original character rendered in the visual style of the animated series Gravity Falls. Do not copy or resemble any specific main characters from the series: this is a new, unnamed character who fits naturally into the cartoon's world.

CRITICALLY IMPORTANT: The character must look like a genuine character from the Gravity Falls universe, not a realistic person processed with a cartoon filter. Completely redesign their appearance to match the show's distinctive 2D animation style. Do not carry over realistic facial features, photorealistic proportions, skin texture, or realistic anatomy. Recognition of the original person should come primarily through hairstyle, build, apparent age, clothing, pose, and overall mood, not through realistic portrait likeness.

Face and anatomy

Create a face in the characteristic Gravity Falls style: a slightly exaggerated cartoon head, large expressive eyes, a simple nose shape, a small expressive smile or mouth, and a clear dark outline. The face should be simple, graphic, and easy to read even at a small size.

The eyes should be large and expressive, but not perfectly round or in the style of The Simpsons. They may differ slightly in size or position to create lively cartoon asymmetry. Keep irises and pupils simple, without realistic detail.

The nose should be simple, graphic, slightly protruding, and distinctly cartoon-shaped. Do not use a realistic nose shape or complex anatomical detail.

The mouth should be simple but very expressive. Convey emotion through the mouth shape, eyebrows, eyes, and head position.

The ears should be simple and stylized. Hands should be cartoon-like, with four fingers. Do not use realistic hand anatomy.

The body should have slightly exaggerated cartoon proportions: the head may be somewhat larger relative to the body, the limbs simplified, and the hands and feet stylized. Do not draw muscles, ribs, collarbones, tendons, or other realistic anatomical details.

The silhouette should be slightly irregular and lively, with the expressive asymmetry characteristic of Gravity Falls. The character should look as though they are genuinely part of the original 2D animation.

Skin

Use natural-looking but entirely cartoon-style skin color fills. Do not use photorealistic skin tones, pores, texture, highlights, or microdetails.

Render the skin with simple flat or lightly stylized fills that match the Gravity Falls palette. Very soft cartoon shadows are acceptable, but no realistic lighting.

Hairstyle

Preserve the hair type, length, and main color from the photograph, but completely transform it into a graphic hairstyle in the spirit of Gravity Falls.

The hair should look like a unified cartoon shape with a clear silhouette, distinct large locks, and characteristic irregular edges. Do not use realistic individual hairs, photorealistic texture, or complex shine.

You may slightly exaggerate the hairstyle's shape to make it more expressive and help it fit naturally into the cartoon character design.

Build

Use the original photograph only to determine the general build.

A thin person becomes a slender cartoon character, a larger person becomes more rounded, a tall person becomes elongated, and a short person becomes compact. Convey build exclusively through the overall silhouette.

Do not use realistic body anatomy.

Clothing

Do NOT copy the clothing literally from the photograph.

Identify the clothing category, level of formality, and main colors, then reinvent it in the clothing style of Gravity Falls characters.

The clothing should look like ordinary clothing worn by a cartoon character: simple T-shirts, hoodies, shirts, jackets, sweaters, jeans, shorts, skirts, dresses, vests, and other everyday garments.

Preserve the essential garment types from the original wardrobe: a dress remains a dress, pants remain pants, a skirt remains a skirt, and so on.

Use the photograph's color palette as a guide, but do not copy the clothing literally.

Add simple graphic details if they suit the character's personality: pockets, a collar, large buttons, stripes, a simple graphic, or a small decorative element.

Avoid realistic fabric, complex seams, photorealistic folds, microtextures, and logos.

Personality and expression

Read the person's mood and personality from the photograph and translate them into expressive cartoon facial expressions in the spirit of Gravity Falls.

Use eyebrow position, the size and direction of the gaze, eye shape, mouth, head tilt, hand position, and pose.

The expression should be lively, slightly exaggerated, and comically expressive. The character may look curious, surprised, self-assured, thoughtful, frightened, cheerful, or slightly suspicious.

The characteristic Gravity Falls blend of humor, adventure, and slight oddness is important.

Background

Place the character in a mysterious coniferous forest resembling the forests around Gravity Falls, using the attached reference images (${style-references}) as visual guidance for the overall atmosphere, color palette, and artistic language.

In the background, include a dense coniferous forest with tall pines and spruces, irregular woodland vegetation, ferns, shrubs, moss, grass, small rocks, fallen trees, and old stumps.

Create the feeling of a quiet, slightly mysterious forest in a small American town. Sunbeams may pass between the trees. Layers of coniferous forest should be visible in the distance, creating depth.

Add small unusual environmental details: strange mushrooms, an old wooden signpost, tracks on the ground, an unusual shrub, a small mysterious object, or barely noticeable details that create a sense of mystery.

However, do not use recognizable locations or buildings from the series, including Mystery Shack or any other specific places. The location must be entirely original while visually matching the atmosphere of the Gravity Falls forest.

The ground should be an uneven forest path or a small clearing. Include grass, leaves, branches, and small plants in the foreground. The background should be significantly more detailed than in the style of The Simpsons, while remaining hand-drawn.

Atmosphere

The overall mood is a mysterious summer forest, adventure, light supernatural intrigue, and cozy oddness.

Sunlight filters through tall pines, creating patches of light and soft shadows on the ground. There is a faint sense of mystery in the air.

Do not make the scene horrific or gloomy. It should specifically be an atmospheric adventure forest in the spirit of Gravity Falls.

Color palette

Use the muted natural palette characteristic of Gravity Falls:
- deep pine green;
- dark green;
- olive;
- gray-green;
- brown;
- warm beige;
- muted yellow;
- bluish gray;
- warm wood tones.

Colors must not be neon or excessively saturated.

The character should stand out slightly against the forest while fitting naturally within the scene's overall color palette.

Graphics

Classic 2D digital animation, visually close to the Gravity Falls aesthetic: clear dark outlines, expressive linework, flat base colors, simple cartoon shadows, and localized areas of color.

Use irregular, lively outlines characteristic of hand-drawn animation. Do not make the lines perfectly geometric or sterile and vector-like.

The background should be more detailed than the character: numerous stylized pines, branches, grasses, rocks, and woodland details, all remaining drawn.

Use several layers of depth: blurred or lower-contrast trees in the distance, more detailed trees and plants in the middle ground, and clearly readable foreground elements.

Soft cartoon shadows and light atmospheric haze between the forest layers are acceptable.

Do not use photorealistic lighting, 3D rendering, or realistic materials.

Composition

One full-body character, entirely visible in the frame.

The camera should be approximately at the character's eye level.

The character stands in a small forest clearing or on a forest path. The silhouette must be clearly readable.

Leave enough open space around the character, but fill the background with natural details.

The composition should resemble a frame from an adventurous episode of the animated series: the character is the focus, while the surrounding forest creates a sense of a world and a story.

Main priority

The person's photograph determines gender, approximate age, build, hairstyle, personality, pose, and the clothing's color concept, but not realistic facial features.

Use the attached screenshots as visual references for the artistic language, character design, linework, proportions, palette, lighting, and forest atmosphere.

At first glance, the result should read as a new original character from the world of Gravity Falls standing in a mysterious coniferous forest, not as a photograph of a person processed with a cartoon filter.

EXCLUDE: photorealistic face, realistic facial features, realistic anatomy, realistic skin texture, pores, realistic eyes, realistic nose, realistic hair strands, photorealism, 3D render, CGI, hyperrealistic lighting, realistic clothing, detailed fabric texture, five fingers, realistic hands, realistic muscles, realistic shadows, glossy skin, neon colors, overly saturated colors, existing Gravity Falls characters, Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos, Wendy, Bill Cipher, Mystery Shack, recognizable locations from the show, copied character designs, exact recreation of an existing character.