Art direction
Chosen style: stylized 3D JRPG, soft cel shading
Chunky, toy-like 3D forms with hand-painted textures, soft cel shading, a gentle rim light and a little bloom, under warm daylight. It won over a softer hand-painted look and a storybook gouache look for one reason: it is what the game can actually be. Meshy produces exactly this kind of model, and URP can render it on a phone.
Prompt
Concept art for a mobile fantasy RPG, crisp cel-shaded 3D JRPG style with soft rim light and subtle bloom, a quiet farming village on a grassy hill below a white stone shrine built of perfectly mirrored arches, morning light, warm ivory, pale gold and sky blue, chunky readable low-poly-friendly shapes, clean silhouettes, inviting and hopeful --ar 16:9
Midjourney job e1cbf51f-e14d-47a5-878b-299fa466e41a / 1
The style anchor. Every Midjourney prompt points at this image with --sref, so new concepts stay in one family.
Rules for a phone screen:
- Silhouette first. Big, simple masses and few thin parts. A creature must read as a shape at thumbnail size before any detail does.
- Upper middle is the stage. The thumbs cover the bottom corners in landscape, so enemies and spell impacts sit in the upper middle, and arenas keep that area open.
- Light separates. A warm key light and a cool rim keep characters off the background without outlines.
- Glow means magic. Only spells, glyphs and the golem's chest sigil emit light. Everything else is matte.
- Budget. Creatures around 10–20k triangles, one 2K PBR texture set.
Concept art
Prompt
Concept art for a mobile fantasy RPG, storybook gouache illustration with flat painted shapes and visible brush texture, a quiet farming village on a grassy hill below a white stone shrine built of perfectly mirrored arches, soft morning light, warm ivory, pale gold and sky blue, bold simple silhouettes, inviting and hopeful --ar 16:9
Midjourney job 7e9e3fcb-c13e-464e-8d0f-42b65ad89c2b / 1
Prompt
Concept art for a mobile fantasy RPG, stylized hand-painted 3D game art, a quiet farming village on a grassy hill below a white stone shrine built of perfectly mirrored arches, soft morning light, warm ivory, pale gold and sky blue, chunky readable shapes, clean silhouettes, gentle painterly textures, inviting and hopeful --ar 16:9
Midjourney job 1db5f4e1-9ac4-4256-87ca-e35035c01887 / 1
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