A huge Pony style LoCon for the 1988 "New Story Of Aura Battler Dunbine" OVA series. A quick plug: I have other classic anime style LoRAs/LoCons. Check out <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/SweetRammaJamma">https://civarchive.com/user/SweetRammaJamma</a>! __SOME INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO THIS LORA/LOCON: Primary trigger word is DZNZVZ. I recommend trying the Pony LoCon with 1) ColorburstXL, 2) LuminaverseXL, 3) Reponygine, and 4) AnimeConfettiComrade (see the "GENERAL INFORMATION" below for more info). Keep in mind that there's non-Pony versions of all of those checkpoints, so be sure to try the Pony ones. Also, all of my testing is with "primarytriggerword, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, source_anime" at the beginning of the positive prompt, so try that first. In terms of special tags (which are mainly characters), here they are, from most training images to least training images: MCRemul (also commonly tagged with "light purple hair, light aqua eyes, circlet, low-tied ponytail") MCShion (also commonly tagged with "brown hair, red eyes, headband") MCBeraana (also commonly tagged with "red hair, makeup, lipstick") MCRabaan (also commonly tagged with "light blue hair, light blue eyes, black visor, black helmet") MCSilkymau (also commonly tagged with "aqua hair, fairy, fairy wings, one-piece swimsuit") MCShott (also commonly tagged with "red hood, red robe, green eyes, glowing eyes") And then there's "mecha" (just "mecha"), which will mainly get you the main mecha of the show: Sirbine! The character likeness are pretty accurate, but you may find some of the characters to be slightly "overfit." This was the tradeoff for getting details like Remul's weird green dangling hair accessories correct. So my advice is to not bother with specific character tags until you've played around with the rest of the LoCon a bit, to get a feel for how things work without the character tags. And since there aren't many main characters in the show, you might not even need specific character tags to get reasonable likenesses -- "1girl, light purple hair, light aqua eyes" will get you something reasonable close to Remul, for example. You might disagree that Silky Mau's hair is "aqua hair" -- except, it's depicted inconsistently in the OVAs, so I just chose something, alright?! Also, be aware: there were plenty of images of Silky Mau by herself, but there were more images of her with Remul, so "MCSilkymau" will actually get you some features of Remul's clothing UNLESS you specify clothing in the prompts! But since "one-piece swimsuit" is enough to reliably produce Silky Mau in her typical/recognizable attire, it's not enough for me to troubleshoot the specifics at this time. Really, I'm amazed that any recognizable likeness of her can be produced at all, given that she's so damn SMALL in almost all of the images! ... Those are all pretty fine details. Overall, things work pretty darn well, and it's all fun to play with. So I'm releasing this as a version 1, and I'm going to work on uploading more of my other LoRAs/LoCons before coming back to address the minor issues with this one. __ A complete list of tags used, ordered by "most tagged to least tagged," is available as a .txt that you could edit to use for wildcards. Look for "Training Data" (or, thanks to CivitAI, "Training Images") in the righthand sidebar. The .zip also includes the training settings I used (requiring 24GB of VRAM -- in my case, a desktop RTX 4090 card). I'm not necessarily endorsing my settings, but my Pony LoCons all use the same settings, and my AnimagineXL 3.1 LoRAs all use the same settings, so if you try out the LoRAs/LoCons, you can see what those settings actually accomplished :) _______SOME GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ALL OF MY LORAS/LOCONS: Sorry about the lack of image generation data. I'm going to work on uploading images with generation data when I have time/energy. In the meantime, I can tell you: To generate the sample images, I don't use outside LoRAs. As in, I only use the checkpoints plus my own LoRA/LoCon. I don't use embeddings, either. So the sample images are very "pure/simple." I use ComfyUI only, so my image generation methods might be different from what's typical with Automatic1111 or CivitAI's online generator. Notably, I don't inpaint! If things get too weird, I usually just "roll the dice" again! But chances are good that inpainting will be an asset to you, especially for things like getting eyes that are 100% stylistically correct. 99% of my testing is with Euler A, at 25-30 steps, CFG 6-7, with the LoRA/LoCon at strength 1.0, and with the trigger word at the very start of the positive prompt. I test both latent upscaling (1.25x to 1.5x, 0.60-0.65 denoise, ~12 steps) and "regular" upscaling. I've tested face detailers, too. All of it works appropriately, but some typical "light troubleshooting" will be required if you're going for a specific output. I do upscale my sample images quite a bit. Usually, it's latent upscaling first, then an additional pass with "regular" upscaling at about 1.5x. I usually resize with boring old Lanczos, and not "model upscalers" (such as AnimeSharp4X), because Lanczos resizing ends up more faithful to the original anime's style -- but really, I do whatever works. In regards to upscaling and YOU: Don't be surprised if something like my Guyver OVA LoCon gives you gritty/grainy initial results. Experimentation is required. And it varies from LoRA to LoRA -- for example, FLCL is a nice-looking and somewhat modern anime, so it doesn't have the same problems as the Guyver OVAs. Where you put the trigger word does matter, and (the trigger word's weight:1.2) does affect things. So to decrease the "faithfulness/literalness" of the style, put the trigger word all the way at the end, and (decrease its weight:0.5). Of course, you can play with the weight of &lt;the actual LoRA/LoCon:0.8&gt;, but I tried to ensure that things work reasonably at 100% strength. (If my LoRAs/LoCons are totally unusable at 1.0 strength, I simply don't release them! I find another way to re-train them!) For both Pony and Animagine, I try "simple background, gradient background" in the negative prompt. This does seem to help with the typical boring backgrounds of SDXL anime models, and it might help more than usual in cases where a LoRA/LoCon is based on an anime that has many boring/simple backgrounds (FLCL comes to mind). ___ GENERAL INFORMATION FOR MY PONY LOCONS: My Pony testing was all done with pretty standard quality tags in the positive prompt, in the form of "primary trigger word, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, source_anime," so I can guarantee that those work, but feel free to experiment! For checkpoints to combine with this Pony LoCon at 1.0 strength, I recommend starting with the following (which are in the "Recommended Resources" at the bottom of the page): 1) ColorburstXL (Pony), because it produces "faithful style" while still being more consistent and aesthetically pleasing than the base Pony model. Then, maybe try... 2) Luminaverse (Pony) will get you something more "modern" while still being quite faithful to the LoCon. 3) Reponygine (Pony) will get you something quite "modern and pleasant," while still retaining good core style features (like eyes and hair details) and character likenesses. 4) AnimeConfettiComrade (Pony), IF you want a MORE "literal" interpretation of the LoCon, while still being more consistent than the base Pony model. You CAN use this Pony LoCon with the base Pony model, but the style might be overpowering, and you may have to lower the LoCon's strength a fair bit below 1.0, and/or move the trigger word to the end of the positive prompt, and/or reduce the strength of (the trigger word:0.1) -- which are all the same ways that you'd adjust the strength with other checkpoints, of course. Adjust to your taste, always :) And, there are many more Pony-based checkpoints that I haven't even tried, so if you find one that works well with this LoCon, please let us all know! _Yes, my filenames are long. It's because I personally use LoRA filenames to quickly compare different versions of my LoRAs while testing things. I recommend renaming the file to your tastes! Though it would make sense to leave the primary trigger word in the filename, right? (It's up to you!) Yes, my Pony LoCons are extraordinarily large. But I made them for myself, and, to quote my genius friend, "it works for me and what I do." If you try these Pony LoCons, and you've made some SDXL style LoRAs/LoCons that you like, I would be happy to discuss training settings with you. __ No warranty, express or implied. I place no special restrictions on what you may do with these .safetensors files. Likewise, I am not responsible for anything that you do with them.

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