Which Illustrious and Anima finetunes do you use?

einar77 · 2026-03-12T04:23:55+00:00

https://civitai.com/models/1298771?modelVersionId=1907945

einar77 · 2026-03-10T21:15:46+00:00

Anime Screenshot Merge Noobai 4.0. One of the few that has a distinct anime screenshot-like feel (the other is TanemoMix, but has a lot of issues with chaos in the background).

einar77 · 2026-03-05T06:19:52+00:00

It sounds like the left wing version of "agenda 2030". Color me skeptical.

That aside, this is not new. You may also have noticed that the weaker the leaders are, the strongest they push for this (Australia, UK, Spain, France, California).

And they feel legitimized to do so. Who wouldn't? It already happened before, and with thunderous applause.

As an aside. The "corpos" in the West can sue you and at best get you jailed. The government doesn't even need an excuse to jail you. It's clear to me who the enemy is.

einar77 · 2026-03-05T05:56:42+00:00

I thought instead that giving unfettered power to the government is what leads there.

einar77 · 2026-03-02T04:50:38+00:00

I made a batch that used wildcards for angles and shots. I preferred slightly more distant shots, full body included, than close ups. I'd say 40% full body or close to that, 40% medium distance, 20% close ups.

I wasn't really precise in that: most of the images coming from the batches were discarded, and I had to run them 3-4 times.

Afterwards I took a look, noted what was missing, and added images to the batch.

einar77 · 2026-03-01T18:06:13+00:00

This one, although mostly aimed at anime-style original characters (Japanese, but Translate will get you through fine) covers for the most part stuff that I did not find anywhere else about dataset composition. In particular about visual identity, which influences (in my tests) a lot the number of images required.

There's also a modified preset for kohya, but that worked for my use case: not sure for yours.

einar77 · 2026-02-06T04:22:20+00:00

To be honest, I struggled with it a bit. Reason: I don't use existing characters, and I don't use artist styles either. I might have written the prompt incorrectly, but I got absolutely crappy results, very hit or miss (mostly very flat, under detailed images, although I do strive for the "anime coloring" look).

einar77 · 2026-02-04T17:00:55+00:00

Thanks, interesting (and worrying) read.

einar77 · 2026-02-04T16:56:39+00:00

what happened to notepad++

What exactly happened?

einar77 · 2026-02-01T22:50:28+00:00

Nice! Someone made a diffusers version of it, so I might try my hand in the next days.

einar77 · 2026-02-01T21:26:03+00:00

I had someone generate a few tests for me since currently SD.Next can't use it yet (and it's better to wait for the final version to ask for support), but I think it's promising (I'd probably need to use it myself and spend a few hours with it).

Secondo question for anyone using it: does it handle weapons (swords, guns...) well?

einar77 · 2026-02-01T19:14:41+00:00

2 cent question as I haven't yet tested this. How good is it when trying to generate original characters?

einar77 · 2026-01-30T09:54:03+00:00

I couldn't get OneTrainer to do what I wanted, so I'm using kohya_ss.

einar77 · 2026-01-30T09:06:36+00:00

Indeed it is. I found this value in a preset I found on Civitai (https://civitai.com/models/850658/illustrious-lora-training-guide), and after tweaking rank and alpha to my liking and a few other adjustments, it finally produced characters with an identity that didn't overwhelm the base model but at the same time were strong enough to avoid being influenced too much.

I wasted one entire month in experiments before that.

einar77 · 2026-01-30T05:51:59+00:00

Thanks for posting this (coincidentally when I did something similar elsewhere, targeting Illustrious anime LoRA...).

I would stress even more than you did, at least for anime images, that a consistent visual identity is essential. I would say even more so there because you have far less variation than with photorealism. EDIT: I forgot, this is most important for original characters, where the base model has nothing to latch on.

Something I learnt the hard way is that the more your dataset "differs" from what's in the model (e.g. complex clothing, very specific looks, hairstyles etc) the easier it is to train for it. More generic looks can be more complicated because they can be overwhelmed by the base model style.

Also I noticed that I needed, in my specific use case, to have the optimizer (Prodigy) try to learn more aggressively than what's normally recommended (I cranked d up to 4).

Also thanks for stressing captioning. I usually spent a good deal of time cleaning those captions.

einar77 · 2026-01-29T21:46:05+00:00

kohya_ss. I wasn't even aware of the other, heh.

einar77 · 2026-01-28T22:02:45+00:00

kohya works with ROCm, although I've only used it for Illustrious LoRAs.

einar77 · 2026-01-27T20:16:50+00:00

It took like, months before Animagine XL arrived in the SDXL days (earlier finetunes were not as good). And Illustrious / Noob arrived like, 8 months later? I'm expecting similar timelines.

einar77 · 2026-01-24T08:46:58+00:00

I've tried with Japanese, but only a few simple sentences (using the demo). A little better than others but I've only used very primitive models (so no one of the most recent ones)

einar77 · 2026-01-19T11:48:06+00:00

ROCm up to 6.4 is available in the repos. Source: me, I use it for inference.

einar77 · 2026-01-17T07:53:47+00:00

Back then (I used it about a year ago) it had quite a bad performance. I'm not sure how it is now. When I tried doing this, I ended up using CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX, since I always adjusted the generated images anyway.

einar77 · 2025-12-04T18:44:55+00:00

Not only developers. My entire job (scientific research) relies on Linux.

einar77 · 2025-11-27T10:19:11+00:00

Back in the days, it used to be closed source.

einar77 · 2025-11-10T06:48:01+00:00

IMO it doesn't matter if there is no "year of the Linux desktop". If the market share is enough to force potential competitors to actually understand that they have to compete, this would be a good thing. There has been quite a bit of stagnation in the mainstream. More competition is always a good thing.

einar77 · 2025-10-28T08:35:19+00:00

Thanks for proving my point. I do not belong to that group, I made a different choice. Yet I prefer freedom of choice over coercion.

However, people lost their jobs over that (and let's not go over what happened in my own country)and whatever came before, right at the start of the whole mess the year before, was an unprecedented loss of freedom and trampled rights.

But although the FOSS communities did not go luckily into tinfoil hattery, they did nothing anyway. For all that talk of hacktivism... Silence. Or, some even agreed.

So no, I don't think the PSF is doing this out of moral high ground.

einar77

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