The Jellyfish City Above the Dunes
On a desert world too hot to live on, entire cities float just above the dunes—built from colossal jellyfish that weave their own architecture in the sky.
Soft solarpunk alien vibes, no horror.
Prompt below for anyone exploring gentle alien worlds.
PROMPT:
A serene daylight scene on an alien desert planet, wide cinematic shot of a floating city made from enormous translucent jellyfish creatures drifting just above endless dunes; each jellyfish (Aeromedusae) is house‑sized, with a bulbous semi‑transparent dome filled with pale turquoise gas, long trailing tendrils weaving together into suspended walkways, platforms and hammock‑like membranes that form an aerial village; nacreous plates and chitin ribs have grown along their undersides to create skeletal arches and open “rooms,” shimmering with opalescent highlights; several Aeromedusae cluster together in a loose line, casting soft, organic shadows on the sand below; tiny silhouettes of ground caravans with insect‑like vehicles and fabric canopies move through the dunes, clearly dwarfed by the floating city overhead; distant rusted anchor towers and cables rise from the sand, hinting at a human or alien attempt to tether these living buildings; palette of warm sand beige, pale turquoise, dusty coral and soft white, with high noon sunlight, subtle heat haze and gentle lens bloom; the camera sits at a medium distance, slightly low angle, capturing both the jellyfish city and the ground caravans in one frame, 35mm lens, peaceful solarpunk‑like atmosphere, painterly yet detailed, no horror, one frame from a larger alien desert universe.
NEGATIVE PROMPT:
human-like alien, blue-skinned humanoid, generic sci-fi city, skyscrapers, cyberpunk neon, dark horror tone, gore, tentacle monster cliché, cheap sci-fi armor, guns, war scene, cartoon, anime chibi, bad anatomy, cluttered composition, oversaturated colors, heavy bloom, low detail, blurry image, noisy grain, HUD, UI, readable text, watermark, logo, plastic toy look, realistic Earth desert animals, Earth buildings, spaceships dogfighting