The latest viral craze in the AI community is the cinematic winter triptych photo trend — a three-panel vertical portrait style that looks like a Netflix movie poster. These images show the same person in three different angles or scenes, giving a dramatic storytelling effect.

On TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Pinterest, creators are generating hyper-realistic snowy forest triptych portraits using tools like Google Gemini Nano Banana, Midjourney, Leonardo AI, and Runway.

In this article, you’ll get two powerful triptych prompts that are dominating social media right now — designed for realism, cinematic lighting, and perfect facial consistency.

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What is a “Cinematic Triptych”?

A triptych is a three-panel artwork where all images connect visually or emotionally. When created with AI:
✔ Looks like a movie poster
✔ Tells a short visual story
✔ Shows consistent identity
✔ Gives a premium editorial vibe

This style is exploding because it looks professional, emotional, and cinematic — yet AI makes it easy for anyone to recreate.

Trending Triptych Prompt #1 — Snowy Forest Identity-Locked Triptych

Use this prompt when you want the face to remain exactly the same across all three panels. Perfect for cinematic storytelling.

Prompt:

“Cinematic ultra-realistic triptych using the exact same facial identity as the reference image. The young East/Southeast Asian man in all three panels must have a face that is 100% identical to the provided reference photo — no changes to facial structure, features, skin tone, hairstyle, or expression style. He has dark neatly side-parted hair, warm brown eyes, smooth skin, and no glasses. He is holding a clear umbrella in a snowy pine forest.

Top panel: Close-up side-profile, looking to the right, chest-up view, snowflakes on umbrella and scarf.
Middle panel: Full-body back view in a wide snowy clearing inside dense pine forest, holding the clear umbrella overhead.
Bottom panel: Tight front-facing portrait, looking directly into the camera with a straight posture, no side pose, the same facial identity as the reference image, large snowflakes on his face, hair, and scarf.

Soft diffused daylight, heavy snowfall, high detail, shallow depth of field, cinematic winter editorial style.
The face must remain exactly the same as the reference image in all panels.”

rending Triptych Prompt #2 — Cinematic Winter Editorial Triptych

Use this prompt when you want a glamorous editorial look with glasses, clean lighting, and cinematic mood.

Prompt:

“A cinematic, ultra-realistic, high-detail triptych photograph divided into three vertical panels. The subject is a handsome East or Southeast Asian young man (late teens to early twenties) with dark, neatly side-parted hair, warm brown eyes, smooth skin, and a calm, intelligent expression. He wears black-framed glasses and consistently holds a clear, transparent umbrella. The environment is a snowy, forested landscape during daytime, with heavy, large, drifting snowflakes and a soft, overcast winter light.”

Conclusion

Triptych portraits are one of the hottest AI trends of 2025 — and with the right prompts, you can create movie-poster level winter portraits that go viral instantly. These prompts deliver:

• cinematic lighting
• perfect facial consistency
• dramatic storytelling
• ultra-realistic snow effects