254My Zodiac Guardian Movie Poster — Enter Your Birth Year and Your Zodiac Animal Becomes a Giant Guardian

Generate this image now. Draw it directly - do not describe it, explain it, or ask questions.
PHOTO RULE (this overrides any other line in this prompt, before or after it, that calls the photo required or mandatory or says to ask for it): if a photo is attached, use it exactly as the instructions below describe. If no photo is attached, never ask for one and never stop — invent a fitting fictional subject (person, pet, food, product or place, whatever this card is about) in the spirit of the card's example image, and finish the image.
Output size 1080x1920 pixels, 9:16 portrait story. Keep all text inside the central 80% of the height.

[One finished poster]
Create ONE original dark-fantasy live-action movie poster, a full-bleed vertical 9:16 image unless another aspect ratio is specified. A recognizable human protagonist in the foreground is protected by ONE colossal armored guardian of the correctly calculated birth-year zodiac animal behind them. Combine photoreal human detail, monumental creature design, storm clouds, distant castle spires, golden embers and enormous sculptural year numerals. Deliver the finished image itself, with no explanatory answer, code, multiple variations or mockup.

BIRTH_YEAR = "【Birth year】". Read this as the Gregorian birth year, not the current year and not the person's age. Keep these original four digits as the large printed year even if a pre-Seollal birthday belongs to the preceding lunar year.
GENDER = "【Gender】". Use the requested feminine or masculine presentation for the protagonist; a supplied photograph remains the source for identity and apparent age.
OUTFIT = "【Outfit】". This line REPLACES the default white suit everywhere in this prompt; when it is present, never draw a white suit: a black suit has rich matte tailoring and rim separation; gold armor has articulated fitted plates; hanbok has a Korean jeogori with its collar, white dongjeong and goreum ties, plus a skirt or trousers appropriate to the requested presentation. Keep the outfit distinct from the guardian's armor and preserve the human identity.

[Input resolution]
Default to a birthday in March or later, a white tailored suit, an armored guardian, black-white-gold coloring and three short English strength words chosen by you. Resolve every supplied optional line below before calculating or drawing. Blank values and "None selected" keep the defaults. "Choose for me" mean choose a fitting result yourself and finish, never print those instructions. Each optional line changes only its named feature. The selected animal, Chinese characters and zodiac label must all come from the SAME resolved lunar year.

[Calendar boundary: Seollal, not January 1 or Ipchun]
Use the Korean popular zodiac convention requested here: the year changes on Seollal, lunar month 1 day 1. Do not use the solar term Ipchun or a Vietnamese animal naming system. Let Y be BIRTH_YEAR and E be the effective zodiac year. For a birth in March or later, or the default month, E = Y. For a January or February birth with an actual day supplied, verify that year's Korean Seollal date using Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute calendar data; dates BEFORE Seollal use E = Y - 1, and Seollal itself or later uses E = Y. Never subtract a year just because the month is February. If only the month is supplied, a whole month before Seollal uses Y - 1 and a whole month after Seollal uses Y. A month containing Seollal cannot establish which side the birthday falls on: do not invent a day. Finish using E = Y - 1 as an explicitly marked pre-Seollal convention, with the small note "before Lunar New Year" beside the zodiac label. Use the same marked convention if a January/February calendar boundary cannot be verified. No question or unfinished image.

Verified checks: Seollal in 1994 was February 10; January 1994 therefore uses 1993, February 9 uses 1993, and February 10 or later uses 1994. Seollal in 1995 was January 31; February 1995 therefore uses 1995, NOT 1994. For other years verify the boundary instead of copying either date. Calendar lookup reference, never image lettering: https://astro.kasi.re.kr/kor/life/pageView/5 .

[Calculation table: read internally, never draw this table]
Use a nonnegative modulo: mod(n,m) is the remainder from 0 through m-1. Let N = E - 1984. Stem index = mod(N,10). Branch index = mod(N,12). Concatenate the selected stem and branch characters, The zodiac label is "Year of the " plus the branch animal. 1984 is the anchor 甲子, Year of the Rat. The ten-stem and twelve-branch cycles advance together; a branch alone cannot determine the stem.

10 HEAVENLY STEMS, in order:
index | Chinese character
0 | 甲
1 | 乙
2 | 丙
3 | 丁
4 | 戊
5 | 己
6 | 庚
7 | 辛
8 | 壬
9 | 癸

12 EARTHLY BRANCHES AND ANIMALS, in order:
index | Chinese character | animal | English zodiac label
0 | 子 | rat | Year of the Rat
1 | 丑 | ox | Year of the Ox
2 | 寅 | tiger | Year of the Tiger
3 | 卯 | rabbit | Year of the Rabbit
4 | 辰 | dragon | Year of the Dragon
5 | 巳 | snake | Year of the Snake
6 | 午 | horse | Year of the Horse
7 | 未 | sheep | Year of the Sheep
8 | 申 | monkey | Year of the Monkey
9 | 酉 | rooster | Year of the Rooster
10 | 戌 | dog | Year of the Dog
11 | 亥 | pig | Year of the Pig

Cross-check examples for birthdays on or after Lunar New Year: 1988 = 戊辰, Year of the Dragon; 1994 = 甲戌, Year of the Dog; 1995 = 乙亥, Year of the Pig; 2000 = 庚辰, Year of the Dragon; 2007 = 丁亥, Year of the Pig. In particular, 1995 is 乙亥, not 己亥 or Kỷ Hợi. A pre-Lunar-New-Year 1994 birth uses 癸酉, Year of the Rooster, while its large birth-year digits remain 1994. The table and calculations are instructions, not a second image or an infographic.

[Foreground protagonist and likeness]
If a photo is supplied, preserve the chosen person's facial contour, eye spacing, nose, mouth, skin tone, hairline, hairstyle, glasses and distinctive visible marks. Select the largest, most prominent person in a group photo, breaking a tie by closeness to the center. Translate the wardrobe and mood without replacing their face or changing their apparent age. With no photo, invent one distinctive fictional adult, never a celebrity lookalike. Seat the protagonist upright on a low weathered stone seat in the middle band (about 38-64% of image height) so the head, body, legs and feet all sit ABOVE the year numerals, hands resting naturally on thighs, chin level and gaze calmly toward the camera. The complete seated pose has credible legs, feet and contact with the stone. Unless an OUTFIT line above names another outfit, wear a white suit with crisp lapels, a covered pale inner shirt, fine wool weave and restrained tailoring. The outfit is bright enough to separate the human from the immense shadowed creature. Keep the face unobstructed by numerals, sparks, armor or the guardian's muzzle.

[Species-correct monumental guardian]
The guardian rises several times taller than the human, its head and armored upper body dominating the upper two thirds. Give it a protective stance and watchful gaze directed past the protagonist. Armor consists of heavy sculpted plates with coherent joints, dark brushed metal, worn edges and intricate gold inlay following the creature's anatomy. The dog zodiac must read as a massive guardian DOG with a broad canine muzzle, nose, ears and layered charcoal fur; wolf-like majesty is acceptable but never substitute a tiger or another zodiac species. A pig may be a massive boar with a broad snout, bristles and natural tusks; an ox has a bovine muzzle and horns; a rooster has a comb, beak and feathers; a sheep has wool and ovine features. Every other branch keeps its table species. A dragon is an original serpentine East Asian dragon; a snake stays a snake rather than becoming a dragon. Armor and gold motifs never erase the animal's identifying anatomy. One animal, no hybrid species, extra heads or unrelated companion.

[Storm, depth and coherent light]
Build a dark ruined castle courtyard with tall thin spires receding into heavy cloud, stone texture near the seat and a few warm gold embers drifting across distinct depth planes. Use cool storm light as soft fill and restrained warm rim light along the human's suit, hair, guardian muzzle and armor edges. Resolve human skin, animal fur or scales, metal and carved stone with different surface responses. Keep deep blacks detailed and outfit highlights controlled. The creature remains physically connected to the ground and cast shadows; it must not look like a flat pasted illustration behind a studio portrait.

[Year typography and Korean lettering]
Print the original BIRTH_YEAR exactly ONCE as enormous carved stone-and-metal numerals across approximately 66-84% of image height, spanning most of the width. Use beveled worn faces, metallic gold seams and strong silhouette contrast. The numerals stand on the courtyard ground entirely BELOW the protagonist's feet; nothing - legs, feet, seat, creature or embers - may overlap any digit. All four digits must be fully visible and unmistakable. Never cover the human face or remove a digit for visual drama. Immediately below, within about 85-92% height, print the calculated two Chinese characters once, then one line with the calculated zodiac label. For the default 1994 example this is "甲戌" and "Year of the Dog". Keep these separate from the year numerals and spell every glyph exactly. Put three small English strength words as a vertical list beside the protagonist, one whole word per line in normal orientation; do not stack individual letters. Keep every word legible and inside the frame. Only in the month-boundary ambiguity described above add "before Lunar New Year" as a modest fourth text element near the zodiac label. No title banner, fake film credits, release date, quote, horoscope prediction, watermark or copied Vietnamese lettering.

[OPTIONAL OWNER INPUT - each line exists only when supplied]
BIRTH_MONTH = "【Birth month】". "March or later", "January" and "February" mean what they say. Apply the Seollal boundary procedure above, accepting an actual day or explicit before/after-Seollal note if the owner includes one. A blank value keeps the March-or-later default.
GUARDIAN_LOOK = "【Guardian look】". Armored guardian uses substantial dark metal armor with gold inlay; giant fur beast in darkness reduces armor and emphasizes layered fur or species-correct scales/feathers; divine beast with gold motifs uses fine luminous gold tracery and a gentler protective gaze. None of these choices changes the calculated zodiac species.
PALETTE = "【Colors】". Black-white-gold uses charcoal storm, white wardrobe highlights and warm gold; silver-blue mist uses cool silver metals and blue haze; red sunset-black uses crimson sky, black shadows and restrained gold accents. Keep skin believable and the chosen outfit recognizable.
STRENGTH_WORDS = "【Strength words】". A specific list is printed exactly once, preserving the owner's words and splitting dot/slash-separated items into one whole word per line. Blank, "Choose for me" means choose three brief positive English words as fictional poster motifs; for the dog default use "Loyal", "Wise", "Brave". These are decorative themes, never factual personality claims about the photographed person.

[Final output format]
Output size 1080x1920 pixels, 9:16 portrait story. Keep all text inside the central 80% of the height.
This selected output format takes priority over any fixed canvas size or aspect ratio elsewhere in this template. Adapt the composition, text zones and margins to the selected canvas without stretching or cropping essential content. Device safe areas apply only when a device is selected. Never print these format instructions on the image.