In the Dark - LORA (Blades in the Dark Style)

The world ended, a long time ago. The sun cracked, the gates of death broke, and the earth became a cursed world. Still, humanity survives. Stuck in the crowded slums of the lightning-caged cities, your only hope for a decent life is to seize it for yourself. By blade or bullet; by a charming word or occult incantation: you will take this city or die trying, your broken body lying in the dark.

Update 23/6/13:

A smaller update. I fixed captioning issues and stretched out the dataset a bit. The biggest changes were from hyper-parameter optimization, so the model is both smaller and more true to the original style at high weights (with the right checkpoint of course).

Update 23/5/30:
I fixed a lot of issues, especially with the captioning. The model can now reproduce the original style at higher weights, and is overall more flexible. I will need to do more testing and figure out some way to expand the dataset before publishing a final version, but this update should be a major improvement.

Notes:

• The trigger world bitdstyle is now impactful.

• The recommended weights are lower. 0.6 - 0.8 should work well, although higher weights may give you interesting effects.

• The monochrome effect has been somewhat disentangled from the general style, but you can guarantee it by adding "monochrome" to the prompt.

Original Post 23/5/28:
Hey folks,

This model is based on the art of the Blades in the Dark tabletop roleplaying game. This is an alpha release on a limited dataset, but I wanted to try applying the style to anime models. Right now, the LORA feels a bit overtrained in some areas and undertrained in others, but I feel that it offers a cool monochrome style. I decided to release what I have so far and then work on an improved version down the line.

This was trained on animefull, so it should have an impact on derived CLIP SKIP 2 models and merges. I tested with and was pretty happy with the results using Counterfeit V3. To get the monochrome effect, I recommend a weight of 0.8 - 1.0. There's no explicit trigger word, but using "silhouette" should get you closer to the style.

Thanks,
Machinique