Trigger word: <code>ve_style</code> — it is silently ignored if you forget it.
A scenery-first KyoAni style LoRA trained on hand-curated Blu-ray frames from Violet Evergarden (Kyoto Animation).
<h3>Recommended weights</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.9 — scenery / establishing shots / still life / backgrounds. This is what it is good at.</li>
<li>0.6 or lower — when stacking on top of a character LoRA. Above this it starts pushing black hair toward red-brown.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Honest limitations (tested, not guessed)</h3>
I ran 54 test images across five rounds (direct stacking, weight ladder, two-pass, ControlNet parameters, denoise ladder). Findings:
<ul>
<li>It will NOT restyle a character that is driven by a character LoRA. With a character LoRA at 0.85 in the mix, <code>ve_style</code> mostly acts on the color layer (warm tint, hair shifting red-brown) rather than on linework and shading. No amount of weight, two-pass, ControlNet loosening, or denoise increase changed this.</li>
<li>It does render KyoAni-looking characters fine when no character LoRA is competing with it.</li>
<li>Always state a lighting direction (<code>high noon</code>, <code>overcast</code>, <code>night, rain</code>). Leave it out and you will get golden-sunset backlight every time — the training set is sunset-heavy. Stating it explicitly overrides this completely.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Training</h3>
350 curated frames · 7000 steps · 10 epochs · 1024px · dim/alpha 32/32 · UNet LR 5e-4 · TE LR 5e-5 · AdaFactor · cosine. 
Violet herself was capped at 14.3% of the set to keep the style from collapsing onto one face. 
This is epoch 7. Convergence was reached around epoch 6 — epochs 8-10 were near pixel-identical to 7, so 4000 steps would have been enough.

Violet Evergarden — KyoAni Scenery Style [Illustrious]

Epoch 7 of 10. Convergence was around epoch 6; epochs 8-10 were near pixel-identical, so this is the sweet spot.Use <code>ve_style</code> at 0.9 for scenery, 0.6 or lower when stacking with a character LoRA. Always state a lighting direction (<code>high noon</code> / <code>overcast</code> / <code>night, rain</code>) or you will get golden sunset backlight by default.

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