### Char-v1.0 by AI_Characters
A 1024 res SD v1.5 trained (not merged) resolution model for various high-quality artstyles.
Huggingface link: https://huggingface.co/ai-characters/Char
#### Disclaimer
I have spent a ???? ton of money (https://imgur.com/a/zdISBEb) on trying to create a high-quality generalised model, free for all.
I have failed.
I don't know what it is. During the last three months I have tried every possible combination of hyperparameters, caption styles, training images, and what have you. I have trained literally hundreds of different models.
Yet each model has issues. No model is how I want it to be.
This model is no exception. It is not what I wanted to release. But I have run out of money to train for now, and the photography part is at least passable, so I am releasing the model now.
Maybe someone can create something better out of it via merging or training on top of it.
I can (mostly) guruantee that (most) photographs will look good. I cannot guruantee that every prompt will look good or even work. I cannot guruantee that any of the other trained tags down below will work well at all. Use those at your own risk.
#### Social Media
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If you want to help me offset some of the big costs involved in creating this model, a KoFi donation would be much appreciated!
Feel free to tag me on Instagram or Twitter with your creations with this model!
## Recommended settings
These are my recommended settings for quick high quality results. These are also the settings on which I tested the model.
- Sampler: Euler_a
- Steps: 50
- CFG: 7
- Resolution: 1024x1024 (no high-res fix)
Some prompts may require some prompt engineering (I much recommend using positive prompts instead of negative prompts) to get rid of biases towards certain ethnicities (e.g. the model loves to create Indian women).
I also recommend inpainting faces, especially for full-length images. It works great.
## Trained tags
Caption style: "(beautiful lighting), POV, (from behind), style, image description"
Examples:
full-length, photograph, woman
beautiful lighting, medium-shot, photograph, woman wearing tshirt, standing in city street
- photograph
- full-length
- medium-shot
- closeup
- longshot
- headshot
- beautiful lighting
- from behind
- silhouette of
- street art of
Use at your own risk (doesn't work very well):
- lk artstyle (Legend of Korra artstyle)
- hg artstyle (realistic 3d renders)
- cw artstyle (StarWars: The Clone Wars artstyle)
- kd artstyle (Ghibli movies artstyle)
- wy artstyle (Makoto Shinkai artstyle)
- tn artstyle (Disney 3d artstyle)
- hq artstyle (high-quality digital art)
- aa artstyle (digital line art)
- dd artstyle (Darkest Dungeon artstyle)
- toc artstyle (Turtle of Canada artstyle (with their permission))
- (skimpy) sg outfit with cape (Supergirl outfit)
- gs outfit with cape (generic superhero outfit)
- Videl wearing sy outfit with cape and helmet (Great Saiyawoman outfit)
- cor (Korra) (doesnt translate well into other artstyles)
- with sd hairstyle (season 1-3)
- with sh hairstyle (season 4)
- wearing df outfit (season 1)
- wearing sc outfit (season 1 winter)
- wearing pb outfit (season 1 probending)
- wearing fs outfit (season 4)
- wearing ek outfit (season 4 earth kingdom)
- riding on Naga
- oyla with ay hairstyle wearing hz outfit (Aloy wearing standard outfit) (doesnt translate well into other artstyles)
- akos wearing sw outfit (Ahsoka wearing season 7 outfit) (doesnt translate well into other artstyles)
- humanoid animal (e.g. humanoid fox)
- woman with pointed ears (elfs)
- half-x half-y hybrid person/animal
- anthropomorphic animal person (e.g. anthropomorphic fox)
- female/male x furry (e.g. female fox furry)
- dragon
- person with feathered/dragon wings
- girl with x ears and y tail (kemonomimi)
- abandoned, flooded, overgrown landscape
- fantasy landscape
- cyberpunk outfit
- futuristic outfit
- futuristic armor
- fantasy armor
- fantasy outfit
- tribal fantasy outfit
- cl outfit (post-apocalyptic outfit)
- giant woman (works best with "hg artstyle") (is biased towards ????? women)
- tiny woman (works best with "hg artstyle") (is biased towards ????? women)
There are technically more trained tags, but they work even less well so I won't write them down here.
## Current shortcomings of the model
- some prompts may require prompt engineering to reduce biases (towards certain ethnicities) and issues inherent in the model
- some prompts may just not work well at all
- there may still be some issues with the 1024 resolution
- negative prompts work very weirdly
- certain prompts may rarely produce an output that may have a watermark or overlay despite me having removed them from all images
- generations at a resolution lower than 1024x1024 will look bad as the model has been entirely trained on 1024, always generate at 1024x1024 (or equivalent resolution, e.g. 512x1536) or higher
- ????? people wont look good (no training data)