ARTICLE TAKEN FROM DEVIANTART AND REPOSTED HERE
Hello everyone, my nickname is xXIlRizzoXx and with today I have decided to introduce myself to you, in life I am a photographer but I also love videogames, I am Italian and I hope you will be able to read this text as I am not a wizard in foreign languages.
I started many years ago in this portal by uploading some of my creations made directly with my Wacom (graphics board for the uninitiated) and enjoyed tracing and colouring in what were my designs to my liking.
Later, with the advent of artificial intelligence, first with ChatGPT and later with many others, I decided to launch myself into this world where, even those who are not artists, can enjoy creating something with their imagination.
I started a year ago with the advent of Microsoft's Copilot, creating the first images of Spyro (I think you have noticed that I am a fanatic about this character and not just him) and I immediately noticed the potential of this new technology. Subsequently, I wanted to push my curiosity further and discovered the existence of other portals, which, however, did not satisfy me or were paid for. So I wondered if there was a way to do this unfiltered, for free and locally. Searching and searching, I discovered the fantastic world of Stable Diffusion A1111, a local software that, started on a PC, could generate images of any kind, both SFW and NSFW.
It was already a great start, but something was still missing: precision in the generations. So I discovered both the Civitai portal and LORA, a fantastic world of files that contained information on the most diverse characters, even subjects I hadn't seen for ages. From here, my passion reached an uncommon level.
At this point I began to create fantastic images on Spyro and ..... why not also on an imaginary female version of him that I personally named Spyra (discovering that many others also used it) and from here a further idea was sparked in me, perhaps the most beautiful one that could happen to me, the recreation from scratch of personal LORAs of characters that I have madly loved from my childhood to the present day, who among you has seen a video game or a cartoon and fallen in love with a particular subject and would have dreamt of... I don't know... a sequel? Well, I decided to take the plunge here too, but taking a leap forward, I abandoned the outdated A1111 version and switched to Stable Diffusion Forge and Stable Diffusion FOOOCUS.
This was getting me excited, I started to create LORA about Bambi (one of my favourite Disney characters, both for the character and his story). I loved Kung Fu Panda, Beastars, The Dragon Prince and many others, but in my heart I had a dream: to bring one of my favourite video game characters back to life. Spyro had already been created and used by many, but those who know his story in The Legend of Spyro cannot forget the fabulous Cynder. True, many hate The Legend of Spyro trilogy, but I and many others love it, especially Cynder, an iconic character.
Not everyone knows this, but to make a LORA you need a lot of images to feed to an AI that studies them and creates a generation model, hence my question, how can I retrieve images that might be useful? I started with Google but I could only find original images of the game in low resolution, I then discovered that there are portals that offer 3D models of various subjects and things, among which I found Cynder, here are some of the images I used to make my LORA, obviously in different parts:
Here is how I started in high resolution to instruct my LORA, consider that I am on the 4th version, self-instructed by both my new generation and yours (I invite you to go and discover the world of Civitai as well as Deviantart, you will not regret it).
My first version was very poor in quality and detail, but it was a muon beginning:
The first model still achieved good results, and today it has 42 downloads and 215 generations on the Civitai portal (not counting local ones).
I later created more LORA on different bases:
Base Pony:
V2
V3
Here I began to see the results of my initial idea, I was achieving the desired result, the right claws, the detail of the character in general, the pierced wings (one of my biggest obstacles) the tail (here still not quite perfect) and as time went on, people fell in love with these generational models of mine... this model counts to date 133 downloads and no less than 1.193 generations tracked on CivitAI, from here so many generations have also been shared on Deviantart and this made me proud of what I was able to create, but I still wasn't 100% satisfied I wanted more, so I managed to arrive at what is currently the most faithful version possible to what I had imagined, namely Version 1 FLUX:
It was her, just her, in a perfect resolution and beyond my imagination, those eyes, that silhouette, the claws, everything was 'almost' perfect, she was wonderful, but it was a generation model that nobody used except for a few things like... like generating images for possible t-shirts or other gadgets, I have a shop myself and I create them...
At this point I just had to create the definitive model, the one that anyone could use, both for SFW and especially NSFW generations (and trust me, the model exploded here), so I created the LORA V4 Pony that I am still using today for so many of my creations that you can see on the Deviantart portal and so many of you have helped me to improve it more and more, I will never stop thanking you, here are some pictures of this model:
For various reasons I have only posted SFW images but know that there have been 6,839 generations here since 31 October 2024 (those tracked on CivitAI) so I imagine a lot more locally as I do and trust me these are huge numbers both in themselves and for me and my idea, thanks again to all...
This was in short what brought me here and allowed me to arrive at what you see on my deviantart page every day, many of you are also asking me to do generations of different types but due to many limitations I unfortunately have to limit myself to certain things (maybe it is me who has not yet mastered the various skills in the AI world of Stable Diffusion and anything could be feasible).
My IA project, however, does not stop here and with this I bid you farewell, thank you and leave you with my latest LORA model, namely Spyra the Dragon -【Female Spyro】【PONY】 - V1 - PONY | Stable Diffusion LoRA | Civitai , my interpretation of what a female version of a SPyro could look like, I'm sure many will like it, have a good evening and enjoy your continuation here on Deviantart and I'll be waiting for you also on my CivitAI page to discover these models and many others...