Cinematic Retro Sci-Fi NFT Movie Poster

Create a cinematic retro sci-fi ensemble poster using all the uploaded reference characters, painted in the style of late-1980s / early-1990s hand-painted VHS movie key art, as the lost cover of a film about an NFT collection that became its own universe. LIKENESS INTEGRITY (CRITICAL) Each character must keep its exact proportions, eye shape and spacing, facial structure, silhouette, anatomy, colors, materials, clothing, accessories, and project-specific design language. Do not humanize stylized characters, redesign faces, merge identities, or invent anatomy. If a character has no visible nose or mouth, do NOT add them. Faces and key identifying traits get the most painted detail. Secondary areas dissolve into brushwork, haze, and scratches. CHARACTER COUNT LOCK (CRITICAL) Every uploaded character appears exactly once. One character = one appearance. No duplicates as a background portrait, silhouette, reflection, emblem, ghost image, or repeated figure. No extra characters. Before composing, assign each character one unique placement. Once placed, never depict that character again. COMPOSITION A layered vertical montage with an asymmetrical triangular flow. Not a lineup, not centered. Adapt this hierarchy to the number of characters and their personalities: one character as a large looming portrait in the upper background, dissolving into smoke one hero character in the central-right, sharpest and best lit one character cutting diagonally through the frame in an active pose, with a light streak following the motion remaining characters emerging from atmospheric layers at different depths one foreground character, larger and partially cropped by the frame edge Characters overlap through painted transitions, smoke, light streaks, and shadow, not as separate cutouts. Keep the lower-left quarter calm and dark so the typography has room. DEPTH OF FIELD (MANDATORY) Focus hierarchy: eyes and faces, then the hero character, then secondary characters, then the painted background. Smoke, grain, and faded pigment progressively soften the deeper planes. No full-frame sharpness. STYLE & SURFACE Hand-painted movie-poster illustration with visible brush texture, dry-brush transitions, airbrushed glow, canvas grain, scratched print texture, faded pigment, and slightly misregistered VHS-era reproduction. Not clean digital concept art, not polished 3D key art. LIGHTING & COLOR Strong sculptural cross-lighting. Hard rim light on selected silhouettes, deep shadow masses, and a subtle airbrushed glow. Shadows in deep cyan, turquoise, emerald, and dirty blue-green. Highlights in burnt orange, amber, and crimson, with red used sparingly. Warm light on faces and the hero, cool shadows everywhere else. No neon flooding, no oversaturation. Background is abstract painted smoke and cosmic haze, with no recognizable city. TYPOGRAPHY (IMPORTANT) Lower-left, printed into the paint like a worn VHS cover, slightly weathered with ink bleed and faint scratches. Title, large: "THE COLLECTION" set in an authentic B-movie horror display font, the kind found on 1980s video-store slasher, creature-feature, and drive-in posters. Choose ONE distinctive style from this family and commit to it, with no mixed fonts in the title: dripping slime lettering jagged hand-cut brush caps splattered ink with paint flecks cracked gothic black-letter bold blocky caps with a thick outline and hard drop shadow scratchy hand-scrawled letters Letterforms are uneven and imperfect, like cheap screen-printed key art, with irregular baselines and small ink flaws. Pick the title color from the poster palette (burnt orange, blood red, sickly green, bone white, or amber) so it contrasts with the dark lower-left area. Do not default to chrome or metallic lettering. Directly below, smaller, in a plain condensed sans with wide letter spacing: "BUILT ONCHAIN" Below that, a compact credit block in tiny condensed caps, three lines: "UNIQUE DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES" "COLLECTED BY [NAME]" "EST. 2026" At the very bottom, a small worn rubber-stamp mark: "NFT COLLECTION ARCHIVE" Render this text exactly as written, with no extra words, fake credits, or gibberish. MOOD Mysterious, mythic, slightly ominous, premium, nostalgic. CONSTRAINTS No duplicates of any character, no centered lineup, no flat lighting, no clean modern overlay design, no glossy superhero-poster finish, no generic cyberpunk city, no rainbow palette, no logos other than the specified text. ar 4:5