As always, the example images I've posted have NO postwork done to them beyond the facial fix (in some cases) and upscaling. I used NO negative prompts except for adding "NSFW" to a few of the ones where it was tending to go blue on me. The point is to show how well it works out of the box - if you take the time and create really good prompts and use good negative prompts (an example is at the end of this post) you can get even better results.
V3.3 Back To(ward) Reality Update (BETA)
Updated to Babes 2.0 (the original had v1.1).
Because of the nature of that update, this tends to push the style much further back toward realism and away from the art style. I wasn't happy at first, but then realized that simply adding "digital art" and/or "cartoon" to the prompt pushed us right back to close to the style I am going for. To get more of the outline style, you can also add "warlockandboobs"
This also responds to the Hyperfusion triggers (see version 3.2 notes) as well as all the custom art styles from Babes. (Plus many many more - but the Babes trained styles are ones likely not to be found in many other models).
Important Note: I'm not entirely happy with this result - in many areas I feel it's a great step forward, but in others... well... not so much. Faces tend to have less detail on wider shots and scenes with a lot of things going on (i.e. not simple portraiture) take a lot more heavy prompting. Now, most folks are used to dealing with heavy prompting, so I'm putting this up as a beta for some feedback - but the real point of this was to be able to use fairly simple prompts to get results that satisfy your desire when you came up with the prompt. So... anyway... this needs some work. Eventually I'll either end up rolling back and remixing or finding a way forward that brings us more back on track.
Your thoughts and feedback are appreciated.
V3.2 Body Update Notes:
This update doesn't change the styles very much (though it's enough that you can't replicate older renders on the new version). It mainly incorporates things from Hyperfusion and Bigger Breasts. Hyperfusion is great, but it tends to sluttify the outfits, even at very low levels. By mixing in Bigger Breasts (which tries not to change up the clothing too much) and finding the right balance, it works pretty well.
A bonus is that it also lets you accomplish making breasts smaller - something very difficult to do on most models without bringing in a lot of extra help. With this "flat_chest:1.4" (or thereabouts) will do a nice job of shrinking things down in most cases. You can also use all the triggers from hyperfusion to make the breasts, butt, and belly do all sorts of things - and putting in weights there brings varied results too.
NOTE: At low levels, most of those calls don't go crazy by sexing everyone up. The higher your weights, the more likely that is to happen, so you may need to declare SFWs and even call a specific outfit in some cases. (I had to do that in the big bust sample image).
MILFY BONUS: While this isn't so much of an update as it is a little trick I learned, it is pretty cool and works well, so I thought I'd pass it along. So many models make it hard to control the age of folks - no matter what you do, the subject ends up looking under 20 (and sometimes even younger). To age folks up, use "caricature" in your prompt. The higher the weight, the older, the lower, the less aging affect it has. When adding this to your prompt, though - it will tend to push the image toward headshots - so if you're looking for something else, you'll need to call your shot and angle.
V3.0 Notes:
This really jumped up to the next level with a few extra tweaks to the LoRa styles plus Merging in Galena. The example images are all done with NO negative prompt and just a handful of words in the prompt - usually just a name and a quick description of what they are doing.
This also takes LoRa's and TIs a lot better than the original. For version 1 I needed to back down the weights quite considerably, for this version leaving them at the default 1.0 (or the values recommended by the creator) tended to work really well.
You can get some cool looks and variations when combining TI and LoRa triggers with the names of known celebrities, too.
This version tends to go a bit more Porny/NSFW than the original, but a lot of that is keyed into the source of the training. Celebrities who tend to not do the sexy stuff aren't as likely to default to sexy stuff - while a porn star or nude model are more likely to default to nudity and sex. Call your shots and it works out well either way, though.
Upscale is always a good thing (though in these, I just did latent) while Face Restoration is often better to leave off (but not always).
Body types tend to always be similar - but you can call them using various bodyweight/style prompts.
Original Version Notes (much of which is still true):
I wanted a model or workflow process that allowed me to quickly and easily churn out art for games and/or photo stories. I didn't want long complicated prompts to create a certain art style, but I also didn't want to be forced to use LoRa's and TI's for every character. Unfortunately, most of the models where I loved the art styles didn't do so well of loading characters (celebrities for mixing, fictional characters, etc.) and the ones that knew tons of famous characters and people tended not take to the art styles I was going for (at least not without complex prompts).
There are some great Anime style art prompts that did a nice job, but I didn't really want Anime faces (big eyes, heart shaped head with pointy chin, etc.). A wanted more of a western style, with a hint of caricature in the faces, and a consistent look from a basic <character> is wearing <outfit> at <location> type prompt.
Unfortunately, since I didn't really expect this to work, I didn't start taking notes on what all went into this until I was fairly well along. It started with a Mega Model (either SD's AIO or Clarity - I forget) and then I merged Rev Animated and Babes into that.
To my surprise, it knew LOTS of characters and celebrities (even some obscure ones that I was surprised about) and it spit out a pretty consistent style - even though it was still a bit more realistic than I wanted. It took LoRa's and style tokens well, though... so I moved to the next phase.
First I added several LoRa styles that I liked the looks of and tweaked the weights on each. They were styles that needed no triggers - so hopefully once I merged them in, then my default prompt would spit out that style every time. (Fingers crossed). I set the values so they showed up, but were low enough that the style didn't affect the clothes or other compositional elements much (if at all). The styles and the weights I ended up at are as follows: <LuisapNijijourneyLORAV2_v2:0.7>,<bootyFarmStyleLora_v10Dim128:0.4>, <lora:hungryClickerStyle_v20:0.6>
To my shock and amazement - it worked spectacularly. It wasn't quite the style I wanted, but adding simply: (bold lines:1.1), (high color), ((smooth skin)), (Masterpiece Digital Artwork:1.3), to the start of the prompt got me there. I can handle a 4 token seed prompt.
Some notes on the model:
It "mostly" defaults to SFW out of the box. i.e. If you just type in a person's name or character description with no clothes - it'll tend to put them in clothes - or at least a swimsuit. That said... with proper prompting, does nudes and porny stuff just fine, too.
I didn't care so much about making sure resulting characters look "exactly" like the person you're calling out so much as wanting to make sure that if I called out that name/person again - they'd be consistent in the way they look from image to image. So, in other words, it's not so much about "accuracy" as it is about "consistency" - and that seems to come through. (This works well for my needs to create stories and whatnot)
Depending upon the distance from camera (i.e. Closeup head shots vs. full body shots) the weight of the "bold lines" in (many of) my example prompts can be tweaked. The further back, the lower that should go and the closer in, the higher it can go.
This model (probably due to one of the LoRa styles I added) tends to want to add tattoos - even for those characters who don't have them. Adding that to the negative prompt can help (see below). Don't forget to remove those if you actually want the tattoos there.
I've added some comments to several of the example images - especially the ones without generation data.
For the sample images I used the Anything VAE (though it works fine with both the default and Anime VAEs that I tried with it). No textual inversions or LoRa usage in them - it's all coming from the checkpoint. Base images at 384x512, Euler a at 20 steps, clip skip 2, face restoration, and scale fix (2x size using latent bicubic/antialiased). The first few examples are pure raw with just a character name and/or character name + general outfit description.
Those first few examples have no negative prompt, either (just to show how well it generally behaves without them). A good neg prompt helps with various things like extra fingers/bad hands, various defects and so on. The one I use most often is: (snagged from a sample image somewhere at some point)
canvas frame, 3d, ((disfigured)), ((bad art)), ((deformed)),((extra limbs)),((b&w)), blurry, (((duplicate))), ((morbid)), ((mutilated)), [out of frame], extra fingers, mutated hands, ((poorly drawn hands)), ((poorly drawn face)), (((mutation))), (((deformed))), ((ugly)), blurry, ((bad anatomy)), (((bad proportions))), ((extra limbs)), cloned face, (((disfigured))), out of frame, ugly, extra limbs, (bad anatomy), gross proportions, (malformed limbs), ((missing arms)), ((missing legs)), (((extra arms))), (((extra legs))), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (too many fingers), (((long neck))), ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, cross-eye, body out of frame, blurry, bad art, bad anatomy, Scribbles, Low quality, Low rated, Mediocre, 3D rendering, Screenshot, Software, UI, watermark, signature, distorted pupils, distorted eyes, (distorted face), Unnatural anatomy, strange anatomy, things on face, ((tattoo)), ((tattoos)),
Obviously, some of those may want to be removed if you're going for something that has been excluded.
