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Food Board

A faux-food / clay dish — locks ingredients, plating angles and commercial styling.

Food Board example — a faux-food clay dish styled as a commercial, in a multi-panel reference sheet

Example board generated from a single photo · subject: Ursula's Deep Sea Taco Feast

BRIEFHERO + METADATAPANELSSTYLE

Lock a faux-food clay dish on-model — plating angles, an isolated ingredient breakdown and commercial styling moods. Attach one clean photo of your subject, paste the prompt into GPT Image 2, and it fills in the metadata and palette from your image — then feed the finished board back as a reference so the subject never drifts.

Food Board · faux-food / clay dish
[BRIEF] Create a single high-resolution, densely packed food reference sheet titled "FOOD BOARD" using the attached photo of the plasticine dish as the single source of truth for sculpt, color, ingredient breakdown, plating and styling. The same clay dish must appear in every panel — same sculpt, same toppings, same broth color. All on-image labels in ENGLISH. Editorial faux-food-styling board layout with a dark near-black background, thin yellow neon accent light, faint film-grain overlay, and food-commercial / production-design UI. Hero shot, metadata, ingredient breakdown and styling panels can shift into different balanced arrangements. Adapts cleanly to different aspect ratios.
[HERO + METADATA] Hero shot of the full plasticine dish in signature beauty angle, with a detailed metadata block: DISH NAME · FAKE BRAND (fictional) · CATEGORY (ramen / burger / dessert) · CUISINE MATERIAL: plasticine modeling clay, clear gloss varnish on wet surfaces, wool tuft steam SCULPTED INGREDIENTS: (list 5-6 components from the attached photo) COMMERCIAL HOOK: (1 line) · TARGET AUDIENCE: (1 line) · USE CASE: (6s teaser / 15s spot / hero stills)
[PANELS] PANEL 01 — PLATING ANGLES (5 beauty shots): TOP-DOWN · 3/4 HERO · SIDE · EXTREME CLOSE-UP · WITH HAND-HELD CHOPSTICKS. PANEL 02 — INGREDIENT BREAKDOWN (5-6 isolated clay components): NOODLE COIL · EGG · FISH CAKE · NORI · SCALLIONS · PORK SLICE. PANEL 03 — DETAIL MACROS (4): BROTH SURFACE TEXTURE · EGG YOLK GLOSS · NOODLE SCULPT TOOL MARK · NORI MATTE TEXTURE. PANEL 04 — IN COMMERCIAL CONTEXT (4 staged frames): STEAM RISING (wool tufts visible) · CHOPSTICKS LIFTING NOODLES · BROTH POUR (frozen mid-action) · HAND HOLDING BOWL. PANEL 05 — LIGHTING / MOOD (4 same-angle hero shots): WARM APPETIZING · COOL EDITORIAL · HARD COMMERCIAL · MOODY DRAMATIC. PANEL 06 — CLAY COLOR PALETTE: 6 swatches with HEX codes pulled from the sculpted ingredients.
[STYLE] Bottom caption: "Use this clay food board as a visual reference for consistent depiction of the dish across all generations." Bottom-right tags: STYLE · Stop-Motion · Clay · Faux-Food. Style: tactile stop-motion faux-food aesthetic — real plasticine sculpture with visible tool marks, gloss varnish on wet surfaces, wool tuft steam, miniature studio photography styled as food commercial. Aardman handmade quality. NOT digital CG, NOT real food photography, NOT 2D illustration. Consistent clay dish across every single panel. 8K, fine film grain.
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