coyotte 

Some news.

I've been quiet lately, but that doesn't mean I wasn't working on new stuff. Actually, it's the opposite - I've tried so much new stuff that I didn't really have time to share my findings.

There won't be any new SDXL versions. It's just not worth it to spend more time, trying to squeeze out more out of a really outdated architecture. I was working on Chroma finetune, but then Z-Image came out and made it pointless to work on Chroma as well - Z-Image is noticeably faster, has higher quality and better aesthetic and an actual LLM as a text encoder (technically speaking T5 is also an LLM, but you get what I mean).

So, right now I'm waiting for Z-Image base model release, because there's not much you can do to Turbo version in terms of finetuning. Refining my datasets, gathering as much 2k resolution images as I can (finally we can make use of them), redoing captions. Also, improving the variety of concepts in the dataset - ZIM's 6b parameters would allow it to adapt nicely.

I am a bit absent right now from the media due to personal IRL stuff, but I DO work on Lustify 8, Chroma loras and possibly Wan 2.2 in the free time.

Any wishes on the concepts / ideas for loras?

It's finally out. 

1) I've fixed what was wrong with the previous one - the faces are now better on the distant shots even without ADetailer/FaceDetailer. The model will also no longer force the details where they aren't needed.

2) I've done additional training on a diverse dataset for A LONG time. Like, so long it turned out much more costly than I would've prefered...

3) THAT ONE pony/illustrious face is anihilated. Seriously, I'm about to throw up every time I see that "(gigachad chin, huge eyed, sweaty skin:10)" abomination on 90% of realistic illustrious merges/finetunes. This needed to be stoped, so I did it.
Download link: https://civitai.com/models/428826/damn-illustriouspony-realistic-model

Workflow from the preview pictures is attached to this post.