After a year and a half of making LoRAs, I’ve finally released my 200 distinct (not V2, not alt base model) LoRA! Keeping with the tradition I set with my 100th, my 150th, and my 175th LoRAs, I’ve made one for Inspector Gadget’s niece Penny, finally doing the original version! There’s a few models of her already, but none quite as good or as extensive as I’d like (the best came out after I had already trained this). Short of someone finding an episode’s original film somewhere (doubt it will happen), this should remain the best model for her in Illustrious, capable of different outfits, emulating the style of the original, and not emulating the style of the original (the trickery I used to get both options in the same LoRA was something I wasn’t entirely confident would work, but am glad did). Took an extensive amount of work (gathering and tagging almost 300 images), but it’s such a big milestone I had to do it. Hopefully it does well despite having its visibility impaired.
I’m also just a bit under 4000 followers (3950 according to tooltip), so I figure I’ll combine the two topics. Thanks to everyone who followed me! Going from 3k to 4k took twice as long as 2k to 3k. That had the advantage of some site staff (?) randomly deciding to feature one of my images, followed by being part of the front page images for Civ Chan (both of which got me loads of followers), but this was just pure gradual progress. I’m sure a very large chunk of accounts following me are totally inactive now, but I’m glad they all decided I was worth paying attention to.
Edit: As of Feb 10th, I'm actually at 4k followers. Took longer to get that last 50 than I expected, though I had slowed down LoRA releases.