Description
This is a style and (some) characters lora trained on screenshots from Justice League/Unlimited and other DCAU shows with the streamlined animated series designs.
Trigger word: dcaustyle
- Strength: 1.0 (or lower if style is too exaggerated)
- For Pony version, use quality tags: "score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up," etc. (Removing some/all of these tags can make the style more accurate but also possibly make it more badly drawn.) The style seems to be a bit random on the base Pony v6 XL model. It's more consistent when used with 2D anime-based Pony merges. I recommend Prefect Pony XL v2 which can get close to the authentic style.
- For the Illustrious version, try using models like WAI-NSFW-illustrious-SDXL or Hoseki - LustrousMix. See the "Version 4.i" section below.
- Use booru tags. Natural language prompting can work too.
Notes
Dataset was made mostly from screenshots from fancaps.net of JL/U, upscaled TNBA (after the redesign) and the movies that used the Timmverse art style. I put more emphasis on major female characters, but I included some men, random characters, and scenery. I avoided crowd shots or pictures where characters were overlapping, since that seemed to confuse the AI based on a previous attempt.
Good for solo images. May not be very coherent with complex multi-character images. As always, use detailer or inpainting to fix faces that are small in the frame. This was trained on civitai because I don't have enough vram.
Many of the frames from the cartoon are simple and at times "badly drawn". Maybe it was a bad idea to train this on "bad" drawings, but I wanted it to look authentic to the TV show. (Others have made loras that look more like Bruce Timm's personal artwork, such as: Bruce Timm - Portrait Sketch Style and Retro Cartoons, the Animated Series.)
Version 4.i for Illustrious
This version was trained for Illustrious on a similar dataset to version 4. Follow prompting instructions for Illustrious, using booru tags and "masterpiece, best quality" etc. along with "dcaustyle" and optionally character prompts listed below. I got good results using it with the model WAI-NSFW-illustrious-SDXL v7.0 or Hoseki - LustrousMix. It might not play well with other Illustrious mixes, like ones that include NoobAI. If you find models it works best with, please leave a comment.
