The goal of this model is to produce art with a Victorian oil-painting mixed with anime aesthetic. VAA and VALite were trained on the VAA v2.0 standard at varying degrees, with VALite being more anime and less oil painting. Further training might be necessary to go heavy into the Victorian oil painting aesthetic.

All models have a VAE already baked in, and are compatible with LCM samplers--provided you also use an LCM LoRA. Like with Noisy_Element, I attempted to train these models to get decent hands, but it's a mixed bag at best, I find.

Recommended usage

Non-LCM samplers: Do as you normally do with standard SD.15 checkpoints, and it should work.

LCM samplers: apply in the appropriate LCM LoRA, set the CFG to 1-2, lower steps to about 6-10. If using ADetailer, be sure to also apply the LCM LoRA in the prompt, if you're using a different prompt.

Version differences

My intent was for VAA to be more Victorian oil painting and less anime, but at times, it seems like it's 50-50; my intent for VALite was to be more anime and less Victorian oil painting, but it feels like it's 75-25. So, from my perspective, the differences seem a bit subtle, depending on what you're doing. To be fair though, I have yet to invoke the prompt "Victorian oil painting", but I have invoked "Mona Lisa" sometimes and have been surprised with the results.

Best to experiment and see what works for you. If you want more Victorian Oil painting as much as I do, you could try using the Victorian Anime Art LoRAs and see if that helps; they're good but somewhat flawed, so I wouldn't recommend using weights more than 0.7 on them. It's probably high time for me to develop a better VAA v3.0 standard. If I do that, I'll try to make a more oil-painting based model with that and upload it here.

Best of luck to you~

Note:

Yes, I'm aware that the Mona Lisa is in fact Rennaissance, and not Victorian, but I wanted to show Mona wearing modern clothing so that's what I went with lol