{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","name":"Main Character: turn a portrait into cinematic key art","abstract":"Cast someone as the hero of an original cinematic world while keeping their face, personality, and signature details recognizable.","text":"Use case: identity-preserve\nInput images: the attached image: a portrait or full-body photo of one adult person\nPrimary request: Reimagine the person in the attached image as the lead character in an original {{genre}} cinematic world set in {{world}}.\nIdentity: preserve the recognizable face, skin tone, hair, expression, proportions, and defining outfit cues. Keep any signature object from the source legible and adapt it naturally to the new world.\nScene direction: make the person feel aspirational and story-rich, supported by environmental details that imply a larger adventure. Add {{signature_effect}} as a restrained visual motif.\nComposition/framing: vertical 4:5 movie-poster composition, heroic eye-level or subtly low perspective, subject immediately readable at feed size, strong depth and a clean focal hierarchy.\nStyle/medium: polished cinematic realism with an original production design, realistic skin and fabric, atmospheric depth, and a cohesive premium color grade.\nLighting/mood: dramatic motivated light suited to {{mood}}.\nConstraints: no title or captions; no logos or watermarks; no existing franchise, celebrity, copyrighted character, or living-artist style; no unrelated figures dominating the frame.","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Picoprompt","handle":"picoprompt","official":true},"genre":"Image","dateCreated":"2026-09-09T03:20:00.000Z","url":"https://picoprompt.app/p/main-character","usage":{"model":"Image model with editing support","variables":["genre","world","signature_effect","mood"]},"examples":[{"name":"Solar City Courier","sourceImage":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-cyclist-source.png","sourceImages":[{"label":"Source image","image":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-cyclist-source.png","alt":"A woman standing with a bicycle on a city street at golden hour"}],"outputImage":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-cyclist-output.png","sourceAlt":"A woman standing with a bicycle on a city street at golden hour","outputAlt":"The same woman and bicycle cast as the heroic courier of a luminous solar city"},{"name":"Glasshouse Guardian","sourceImage":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-gardener-source.png","sourceImages":[{"label":"Source image","image":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-gardener-source.png","alt":"An older man watering plants inside a sunlit greenhouse"}],"outputImage":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/main-gardener-output.png","sourceAlt":"An older man watering plants inside a sunlit greenhouse","outputAlt":"The same gardener as the guardian of an enchanted glasshouse filled with luminous flowers"}]}