Dear folks,
as you may have noticed, I started transitioning from the SD1.5 env to PonySDXL (simply "Pony" for the friends). The last uploads were a mixed bag of SD1.5 and PonyXL. I experimented in the last couple of months with SDXL and Pony to try to understand how they work and what are the capabilities and... oh my, once you understand how they work they're simply awesome! I can generate high quality images without even rescaling them and consuming time, I get much more what I want instead of trying and trying and... multiple characters are handled so much better. However I still struggle a bit to find a realistic or pseudo-realistic model that satisfies me as much as several SD1.5 models did (like Photon, which I believe is one of the most extraordinary checkpoints of the platform). What I left behind in the previous polls will be simply done directly in Pony. I will think about double releases both in Pony and SD1.5 but my impression is that SD1.5 is starting to die out.
In peace and at your humble service,
Chevalier (formerly Glober)