Nova Retro XL
Nova Retro XL is anime SDXL checkpoint with the looks of 80s / 90s animations
All images on example were created with diffusers with custom png tags
Rules
You cannot use the generated images for commercial use if it's not edited (or just turning it to black and white)
You can share images without any restriction if you don't monetize it
Advertising this model to outside is always welcome
Recommend Settings
Sampler: Euler a
Steps: 20~30
Clip Skip: 1-2
Denoising Strength: 0.65 - 0.8
CFG Scale: 4~6
Prompt: masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, scenery, 1980s_\(style\), 1990s_\(style\), {Prompt}, BREAK, depth of field, volumetric lighting
Negative Prompts: modern, recent, cartoon, graphic, text, painting, crayon, graphite, abstract, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured, long body, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, missing fingers, extra digits, fewer digits, cropped, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, conjoined, bad ai-generated
Description
Changes
VAE / Train Fix
Extend pose and character knowledge
Wider variety of styles
NoobAI EPS v1.1 + Illustrious v2.0-stable DARE applied
FAQ
Comments (2)
I kinda like the style of showcased pics from v3 but it seems to have lost A LOT of the 90s anime retro style from v1.
That being said after reading comments i have a couple questions.
First, could you publish the list of known Danbooru characters or, at the very least, the date of the Danbooru characters dataset your checkpoint was trained on regarding characters knowledge (i.e., whether it knows Danbooru characters up to XX/XX/20XX)? Many merges don't provide this information, even though it's one of the main reasons for using a checkpoint: character knowledge.
Also, it seems your previous checkpoints had difficulty representing male characters. Have you significantly improved this in version 3?
My new favourite checkpoint love the retro and detailed vibes. Have you ever considered making a circlestone-labs/Anima by Comfy org Lora and or checkpoint. It's a new 2 billion parameter anime model that looks very promising. It's still in the preview stage but it looks pretty good. Can't wait for version 4 this. Great work as always.