sambaneko Style (PonyXL)

LoRA in the style of sambaneko. It's a silhouette vector art style primarily focused on MLP: FIM that, through creative use of tags and weights, has a lot of versatility. It's good at both pony and anime silhouettes, and surprisingly good at creating cross-over ponies, likely all thanks to PonyXL V6 as the base. (See also: AnimagineV31 Version)

Examples were made with PonyXL V6 in Forge. FreeU was enabled, but is optional. (Civit didn't seem to pick up the model name from the metadata, so it appears as [object object].) Recent examples have also been made with AutismMix and others.

Aside from the trigger sambanekostyle, try using (simple background:2.0) to start, as high as 2.0. Adjust up or down depending the on desired outcome. This will tame the background effects to a more subtle level. 1.4 is also a nice point. Adding silhouette helps to make the character blend more into the background, while omitting it can make the character more 'on top' of the background.

The training data is entirely ponies (though it still generalizes to anime very well, as said). An attempt was made to tag fullsize for large ponies such as princesses, and to tag unicorn, alicorn, and pegasus, as well as all of the appropriate pony names in the training data.

This was trained on 1024x768 wallpapers, and while it can definitely do other resolutions, unfortunately if you try for a very wide res you're likely to get more than 4 legs. I may train another version with more resolutions in the future.

There's a lot of creative possibility here, so just try raising, lowering, and adding tags to see what happens. It has often reacted in ways that surprised me.

Trigger:

sambanekostyle

Recommended prompt examples:

Positive prompt for ponies:

sambanekostyle, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up, score_4_up, source_pony, feral_pony, (simple background:2.0), standing, full body, from side, centered composition, {{tags}}

Positive prompt for anime:

sambanekostyle, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up, score_4_up, source anime, (simple background:2.0), standing, full body, from side, centered composition, {{tags}}

Negative prompt:

score_6, score_5, score_4, score_3