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Somnique

Ten looks

Each one changes how the night behaves.

A style is not a filter laid over the output. It changes the grade, the grain, how edges hold together and how things move between shots. Pick the one that matches how the dream felt, not what was in it.

Surreal Oil example frame
AI-generated

Surreal Oil

Thick brushwork that never quite settles

Frames are rendered as moving oil paint: visible impasto, edges that breathe, colour mixing on the canvas rather than in the light. The default when a dream felt heavy and physical.

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Dreams with weight — falling, drowning, carrying something
  • Frame from Both Directions
  • Frame from Three Moons
  • Frame from Rain Held Still
Render something in Surreal Oil
Film Grain example frame
AI-generated

Film Grain

16mm halation, light leaks, dust

Analogue photographic treatment with heavy grain, gate weave and warm halation around highlights. Reads as a memory someone shot on a camera they no longer own.

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Dreams about houses you used to live in
  • Frame from Nobody Riding
  • Frame from Halfway Along
Render something in Film Grain
Underwater Drift example frame
AI-generated

Underwater Drift

Caustics, slow limbs, rising bubbles

Everything moves at a third of its natural speed, light arrives in shifting caustic bands, and fabric and hair drift upward. Motion is continuous, never cut.

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Dreams where you could breathe but should not have been able to
  • Frame from Still Alive
Render something in Underwater Drift
Silent Noir example frame
AI-generated

Silent Noir

High contrast black and white, no colour at all

Monochrome with crushed blacks, a hard key light, vignetting and a faint flicker on the exposure. Emulsion scratches ride over the frame.

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Chases, staircases, being followed
  • Frame from No Hands
  • Frame from Nothing Came
Render something in Silent Noir
Neon Nocturne example frame
AI-generated

Neon Nocturne

Wet streets and signage with no readable letters

Anamorphic night city: rain on every surface, violet and teal spill, long reflections. Signage is kept abstract on purpose — the renderer does not letter signs.

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City dreams, being late, looking for an address
  • Frame from The Glass Line
  • Frame from Stacked Lanterns
Render something in Neon Nocturne
Storybook example frame
AI-generated

Storybook

Gouache illustration with soft paper tooth

Hand-painted children's book treatment: flat washes, visible paper texture, gentle outlines. The kindest look in the set, and the one that ages best.

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Dreams that felt safe, or ones you want to feel safe
  • Frame from Before The Floor
  • Frame from Inverted Wood
  • Frame from Night Kites
Render something in Storybook
Low Poly example frame
AI-generated

Low Poly

Faceted geometry, flat shading, clean silhouettes

Everything is rebuilt as coarse polygons with flat shading and no texture detail. Motion becomes deliberate and mechanical.

Suits
Abstract dreams and ones with impossible architecture
  • Frame from Every Floor
  • Frame from Into Nothing
Render something in Low Poly
Fog Silhouette example frame
AI-generated

Fog Silhouette

One shape, an enormous amount of nothing

Minimal compositions: a single dark form against a graded fog field, with most of the frame left empty. The quietest option and the one that hides the most.

Suits
Dreams you only half remember
  • Frame from Upward Pages
  • Frame from Kept Going
  • Frame from Through The Keyhole
Render something in Fog Silhouette
Paper Cut example frame
AI-generated

Paper Cut

Layered paper diorama with real depth shadows

Scenes are staged as stacked paper cut-outs with visible edges and cast shadows between layers. Camera moves reveal the gaps between planes.

Suits
Landscapes, journeys, anything with a horizon
  • Frame from Solid Beam
  • Frame from Door Open
Render something in Paper Cut
Astral Ink example frame
AI-generated

Astral Ink

Wet ink bleeding across textured paper

Wet-on-wet ink and watercolour blooms that spread and dissolve between shots, with visible paper grain underneath. Edges are never fixed.

Suits
Dreams that changed shape while you were in them
  • Frame from Held Wave
  • Frame from Not In The Sky
  • Frame from Small Galaxies
Render something in Astral Ink

What styles will not do

None of these presets imitate the personal style of a living artist, and descriptions asking for one are declined. Signage, captions and any other lettering stays out of the frames on every style — generative models render text badly, so the site typesets words around the image instead of inside it.

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