Hello!
Guess I'll be writing my first post for the year and it's been awhile since I wrote. Also because site seems to be a little broken at this time of writing, but I'm still able to post this lol.
Illustrious LoRAs are now LIVE!
In case you missed out, I've already released 3 LoRAs so far for Illustrious.
My first one was my for Nightwings LoRA since I recently released a version 2 for the LoRA with an updated training set. Then I decided to port it over to Illustrious to see how well it worked out - turns out it's pretty good.
Next ones I updated are for the Lusty Argonian Maid and Sisu which have been pretty popular as well too.
So future plan would be going down the list, and will be continuing to convert the more popular LoRAs to Illustrious as well.
Side note, kinda starting to like Illustrious too even though it's not as feral friendly as Pony. But it does Anthro like 200% better than Pony so that's a bonus.
Plus, I had a bonus crash course to learn how to prompt properly in Illustrious since it's following a different style tagging (Danbooru for Illustrious vs e621 for Pony). While there are some similarities, overall prompting still is much different especially if you want the best results.
In case you want to learn prompting, this is the guide I studied from: https://civitai.com/articles/10962/illustrious-prompting-guide-or-v01-or-generate-anime-art-with-ai
What am I planning next?
Besides converting my LoRAs for Illustrious, I'm planing to continue making LoRAs for Pony still at least in the near future.
My next LoRA currently in production will be another test as I'll be making a LoRA for Sisu's siblings - Jagan, Pranee, Amba and Pengu. Guess this is a sneak peak since you read this article heh.
After that, my current focus will be going back to my original Wings of Fire LoRAs. What I'll be doing:
Updating a V2 for all my Wings of Fire LoRA: I'll be improving all my training data set and hopefully it'll help produce much better pictures.
Individual WOF Character LoRAs: I'll be releasing an individual LoRA for most of the main characters again, especially those who has comics available now. I did train the Peril LoRA with 80% of the pictures from the comics, and I'm quite happy with the results, which is why I'll be doing this as well. But this will take some time as I need time to get the pictures. So that includes:
Clay
Tsunami
Glory
Starflight
Sunny
Moonwatcher
Winter
And some other characters like:
Whiteout (Should be coming soon)
Fatespeaker
Kinkajou
V2 will probably still include the ability to generate some of these characters like V1, but the more specific character LoRAs should be able to accurately generate the characters better. Or at least... that's the plan. Probably will take the first half of the year to roll everything out eventually.
All these LoRAs will then eventually be ported to Illustrious as well, which is why I chose to separate the Pony and Illustrious LoRAs differently rather than combine them in the same model page.Creating on Inspiration: Still gonna randomly create LoRAs here and there as usual. But when inspiration hits, I may just release characters of a certain series more. Recently had this with the Warcraft series when I did Viridia, Sakareth and Netherdrake. But ultimately, i still follow the 'i create what i want' first.
On the topic of OCs: I don't really want to create them much since some OCs are a direct representation of an artist which can get quite personal. The only OCs I choose to create are mostly those who haven't had content created for awhile (at least a few years). In any case, thats why I haven't made much OCs. (Bonus: If you have any OC with reasonable number of art and want me to create it here, just drop me a PM and i'll be happy to discuss)
To end it off
Will be traveling quite a bit this year, so there will be extended periods of time where there are no LoRAs released. Will update it directly on my profile (see the message above) if I'm away.
In any way, still happy to continue being a LoRA creator for CivitAI! I think i'll still be here for the near future at least and will continue doing what I do.
Also I appreciate everyone with your support especially those who donated Buzz my way. This definitely help me continue producing more LoRAs.
But with the recent buzz changes again, it's impossible to get free yellow buzz any more (unless you're a LoRA creator)
So If you still want to support me with buzz, best way is just posting whatever you create from my LoRA directly to the gallery of the model. This is the best way you can do so at 0 cost for you.
Lastly.. throw any character suggestions my way in this thread over here!
See you around and hope you continue enjoy using my LoRAs!