Make It Look Huge
How to make something look huge. Four stills, four prompts, Midjourney.
The prompts
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cinematic film still, the colossal stone hand and forearm of a buried titan protruding from a desert plain, weathered and cracked and hundreds of metres across, a caravan of tiny riders passing beneath the curve of one finger, warm amber late sun against the cool blue shadow inside the palm, immense archaeological scale and awe, photorealistic, shot on 70mm, film grain, cinematography in the style of Roger Deakins in Blade Runner 2049 --ar 9:16 --style raw --stylize 250 --v 8.2 --relax --no painting, illustration
cinematic film still, an enormous whale drifting silently through the air above a sleeping suburban street at night, its shadow crossing the parked cars and lawns below, one child on a driveway looking up, warm porch and streetlight glow against the cool blue-silver of the moonlit whale and the night sky, immense scale and dream logic, photorealistic, shot on 35mm, film grain, cinematography in the style of Janusz Kaminski --ar 9:16 --style raw --stylize 250 --v 8.2 --relax --no painting, illustration, cartoon, surrealism
cinematic film still, a single tiny figure walking across an endless mirrored salt flat as an immense supercell storm builds across the entire sky above them, the storm perfectly reflected in the water underfoot, warm gold light breaking under the storm's edge against the cool blue-grey of the cloud mass, immense scale and isolation, minimalist wide composition, photorealistic, shot on 70mm, film grain, cinematography in the style of Emmanuel Lubezki --ar 9:16 --style raw --stylize 250 --v 8.2 --relax --no painting, illustration
cinematic film still, an enormous dragon perched along the top of a sheer sea cliff at sunset, wings folded and half the cliff face in its shadow, tiny human figures on the clifftop path for scale, warm gold sunset firing the underside of its wings against the cool blue of the sea haze far below, immense scale and stillness, photorealistic, shot on 70mm, film grain, cinematography in the style of Andrew Lesnie --ar 9:16 --style raw --stylize 250 --v 8.2 --relax --no painting, illustration, recognizable franchise, cartoon dragon
Why it works
People judge how big something is by comparing it to something they already know. A person, a car or a house gives them that size. Each of these four prompts puts one in the frame.
Put a tiny person next to the big thing. In the stone hand, a caravan of tiny riders crosses under the fingers. You know how big a person on a camel is, so you can tell how big the hand is.
Use things everyone knows the size of. In the whale shot, the parked cars and the houses on the street show how big the whale is.
Make the person very small. In the salt flat, a single tiny figure stands under the storm. The smaller the person, the bigger the storm looks.
Write the tiny thing into your prompt. The dragon prompt asks for tiny human figures on the clifftop path for scale. Name the small thing and say it is tiny.
Before you run it
Use the same settings. All four were made with --style raw --stylize 250 --v 8.2.
Check the size of the person. If the person comes out too big, run it again.
To make it yours, keep the tiny thing and change the rest. Swap the giant for your own subject and keep a person, a car or a house next to it.