Utena movie art style (backgrounds & characters)

Art style from Adolescence of Utena.

Trigger tag: ut3n4, retro artstyle,

(Possible results without retro artstyle, feel free to experiment)

Recommended settings

• Checkpoint: WAI-NSFW-illustrious-SDXL (any Illustrious checkpoint should work but cfg/steps might differ slightly from the below)

• cfg: 1~1.5 on sampler euler_ancestral_cfg_pp (5~7 on euler)

• Steps: 15~25 (30 for pixel art)

• Lora strength: 0.8~1

• A face detailer is highly recommended. You can get a simple Comfy workflow from my images.

Recommended prompts

• Backgrounds will be very empty until you use appropriate tags, e.g.

  • Plants: rose, flower, white flower, pink flower, purple flower, blue flower, white rose, pink rose, purple rose, potted plant, florist, foliage, bush, tree, forest, garden, falling petals, petals, sunflower

  • Outdoor and indoor details: architecture, gothic architecture, floral stained glass, arch, colorful, dappled sunlight, light particles, light rays, sunbeam

  • Outdoor details: green sky, tower, clock tower, castle, cityscape, lamppost, fence

  • Indoor details: vaulted ceiling, skylight, curtains, wall clock, shelf, vase, cushion, stuffed toy, stuffed animal, plush, chandelier, book stack, bookshelf, easel, lamp, teddy bear

• In combination with the Tomoyo lora at strength 1,pixel art yields some very PC-98-looking art (use 30 steps), no need to include include t0m0y0 in the prompt

Training data

111 screenshots from the movie, taken manually and tagged ut3n4 .

You can download the training data: https://files.catbox.moe/aezyfh.zip

Feel free to re-use. 100 epochs, 27 steps, rank 96.