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Let’s structure a prompt

Consider including the below elements in your prompt. The more exhaustive your prompt, the clearer the picture Odyssey-2 will be able to reference.

1. Subject: Objects, animals, people, or sceneries to be included. For example, cityscape, desert, boats, puppies, or 3 friends.
2. Action: What the subject(s) are doing. For example, walking, running, talking, painting, or sitting.
3. Environment: The background, setting or time of day.
4. Style: Define art styles, artists, art mediums, colloquial aesthetics, or film style keywords; horror, film noir, or cartoon.
5. Camera position and movement: top-down, aerial, eye-level, worm’s-eye, etc.
6. Composition: How the shot is framed, such as wide shot, close-up, single-shot or two-shot.
7. Focus and lens effects: Use terms like shallow focus, deep focus, soft focus, macro lens, and wide-angle lens to achieve specific visual effects.
8. Ambiance/mood/lighting: Lighting and its color such as soft light, harsh, neon, sunset, dark, ominous, blue tones, warm tones, day or night.

For example:

Two Italian brothers dressed in steampunk, sitting in a booth at a harshly lit, futuristic, cyberpunk coffee cafe.

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Adding styles & visual aesthetics

Odyssey-2 understands a wide range of colloquial stylistic descriptions, even when they aren’t formal art terms. You can reference your favorite artist, a well-known art movement, or even cultural shorthand like “Minecraft style,” “1960s cartoon,” or “GTA 6 graphics.” These light-touch style cues are often enough for Odyssey-2 to infer the entire aesthetic: color palettes, brushwork, rendering modes, lighting, and even cultural conventions. The examples below demonstrate some of the categories Odyssey-2 responds to.

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Pop art

Bright colors, bold outlines, graphic/comic vibes. Great for stylized, attention-grabbing scenes.

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Surrealism

Dreamlike, bizarre, subconscious imagery that feels symbolic or dream-logic driven.

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Cubism

Fragmented geometry, multiple viewpoints at once. Odyssey-2 leans into angular shapes and abstract composition.

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Graffiti, street art

Sprayed textures, bold stencils, urban flair. Ideal for edgy or contemporary aesthetics.

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Other recognized styles

• Minimalism: Clean shapes, limited palette, visual simplicity. Useful when you want clarity and negative space.
• Renaissance style: Classical realism, dramatic lighting, and idealized forms; Odyssey-2 applies period-accurate rendering.
• Expressionism: Emotion-driven distortion and heavy brushstrokes. Odyssey-2 picks up on intensity and exaggeration.

Odyssey-2 is flexible with colloquial or genre-based styles, even when they aren’t classical art movements. These examples show that Odyssey-2 understands cultural styles just as well as formal art terms:

• Photorealistic
• 8-bit pixel art
• Minecraft voxel style
• Japanese anime
• 1960s cartoon
• 2010s cartoon
• GTA-6 realism

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Mixing multiple styles & visual concepts in one prompt

Odyssey-2 can faithfully blend multiple styles and concepts into one creation—often with one simple stylistic direction. For example, this single base prompt:

A man and his dog walking through an alley way towards the camera in soft focus, in the style…

• dark fantasy
• film noir

Notice how the stylistic cue alone affects the setting, the man, his clothes, the overall color palette, and the dog. Try prompting a fusion of your favorite representations.

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Framing your subject

Odyssey-2 understands common cinematography terms for subject distance and framing. These influence how much of the character fills the frame and are great for controlling intimacy, tension, or detail.

• Macro shot: extreme detail of tiny subjects
• Extreme close-up (ECU): detailed level
• Close-up (CU): head fills frame
• Medium close-up (MCU): chest-up
• Over-the-shoulder (OTS): positioned behind one subject, looking over their shoulder toward another subject or focal point

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Adjusting the camera’s position

For storytelling or blocking, you can specify where the camera physically sits. This helps you choreograph generations with more precision.

• Bird’s-eye view: Overhead, looking down upon subject
• Profile shot: Side view of subject
• Back/behind shot: Rear view of subject

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Using negative prompts

Prompting Odyssey-2 what you don’t want can help constrain and exclude attributes from generation. For example:

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Tips for prompting midstream

Dynamic present-tense action verbs (“puts on glasses”) can cause actions to loop, while stative present-continuous descriptions (“is wearing glasses”) describe a completed, ongoing state—a condition that is already true, not something that needs to repeat.

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Known limitations

Known non-real subjects and actions limit Odyssey-2’s ability to adhere to stylistic requests and realism. The model will often seek to accurately represent your subject/action, at the expense of your stylistic requests. Below, notice as we get farther from “man”, the silhouette becomes less a silhouette and realism suffers.