A huge Pony style LoCon for the 1989-1992 "Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor" OVAs. A quick plug: I have other classic anime style LoRAs/LoCons. Check out <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/SweetRammaJamma">https://civarchive.com/user/SweetRammaJamma</a>! __SOME INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO THIS LORA/LOCON: Primary trigger word is GZZVZR. I will warn you that this Guyver LoCon is probably even MORE of an "acquired taste" than my other LoCons. Personally, I think that the old grainy "lo-fi" style is pretty cool, but it definitely shows off "warts and all." Just be aware that there's going to be limits to how modern you can make things look! Also: Every image in this LoCon's gallery was initially latent upscaled (and then maybe upscaled once again through other methods), because latent upscaling seems to deal pretty well with the training dataset's low resolution/fidelity. So even if you don't normally use latent upscaling, I recommend that you try it with this LoCon. I usually do 12-13 steps, 0.60-0.65 denoise, and 1.25x to 1.50x scaling (with my standard Euler A). I recommend trying the Pony LoCon with 1) ColorburstXL, 2) LuminaverseXL, 3) Reponygine, and 4) AnimeConfettiComrade (see the "GENERAL INFORMATION" below for more info). Keep in mind that there's non-Pony versions of all of those checkpoints, so be sure to try the Pony ones. Also, all of my testing is with "primarytriggerword, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, source_anime" at the beginning of the positive prompt, so try that first. _ My approach to tagging was a bit different than for some of my other LoRAs, because I opted to go for "modified concepts" instead of using arbitrary trigger words. AND SO... "Power armor" will get you a pretty accurate Guyver! "Monster" will get you a Zoanoid... but you're never going to get an exact likeness of any specific Zoanoid. For example, "green monster, single horn" will get you something like Gregole, but not exactly. "Alien" was used for Murakami's Proto-Zoalord form. However, this had relatively few training images, so expect some results that are either bizarre or stubborn (overfit). "Monster, power armor" was used to tag Aptom's first Zoanoid form. For various reasons, this was not a great tagging choice, AND there were relatively few training images. So don't expect anything specific if you try "monster, power armor," but, technically, Aptom was tagged! "Colored sclera" will get you Guyot's creepy eyes. If I do a version 2, I will be tagging individual characters/monsters, like "MCGuyver1, "MCGuyver3," "MCGregole," "MCAptom"... not to mention the human characters. But this LoCon is capable of generating some hilarious images as-is, so I'm releasing it as a version 1. __ A complete list of tags used, ordered by decreasing frequency ("most tagged to least tagged"), is available as a .txt that you could edit to use for wildcards. Look for "Training Data" (or, thanks to CivitAI, "Training Images") in the righthand sidebar. The .zip also includes the training settings I used (requiring 24GB of VRAM -- in my case, a desktop RTX 4090 card). I'm not necessarily endorsing my settings, but my Pony LoCons all use the same settings, and my AnimagineXL 3.1 LoRAs all use the same settings, so if you try out the LoRAs/LoCons, you can see what those settings accomplished :) _______SOME GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ALL OF MY LORAS/LOCONS: Sorry about the lack of image generation data. I'm going to work on uploading images with generation data when I have time/energy. In the meantime, I can tell you: To generate the sample images, I don't use outside LoRAs. As in, I only use the checkpoints plus my own LoRA/LoCon. I don't use embeddings, either. So the sample images are very "pure/simple." I use ComfyUI only, so my image generation methods might be different from what's typical with Automatic1111 or CivitAI's online generator. Notably, I don't inpaint! If things get too weird, I usually just "roll the dice" again! But chances are good that inpainting will be an asset to you, especially for things like getting eyes that are 100% stylistically correct. 99% of my testing is with Euler A, at 25-30 steps, CFG 6-7, with the LoRA/LoCon at strength 1.0, and with the trigger word at the very start of the positive prompt. I test both latent upscaling (1.25x to 1.5x, 0.60-0.65 denoise, ~12 steps) and "regular" upscaling. I've tested face detailers, too. All of it works appropriately, but some typical "light troubleshooting" will be required if you're going for a specific output. I do upscale my sample images quite a bit. Usually, it's latent upscaling first, then an additional pass with "regular" upscaling at about 1.5x. I usually resize with boring old Lanczos, and not "model upscalers" (such as AnimeSharp4X), because Lanczos resizing ends up more faithful to the original anime's style -- but really, I do whatever works. In regards to upscaling and YOU: Don't be surprised if something like my Guyver OVA LoCon gives you gritty/grainy initial results. Experimentation is required. And it varies from LoRA to LoRA -- for example, FLCL is a nice-looking and somewhat modern anime, so it doesn't have the same problems as the Guyver OVAs. Where you put the trigger word does matter, and (the trigger word's weight:1.2) does affect things. So to decrease the "faithfulness/literalness" of the style, put the trigger word all the way at the end, and (decrease its weight:0.5). Of course, you can play with the weight of &lt;the actual LoRA/LoCon:0.8&gt;, but I tried to ensure that things work reasonably at 100% strength. (If my LoRAs/LoCons are totally unusable at 1.0 strength, I simply don't release them! I find another way to re-train them!) For both Pony and Animagine, I try "simple background, gradient background" in the negative prompt. This does seem to help with the typical boring backgrounds of SDXL anime models, and it might help more than usual in cases where a LoRA/LoCon is based on an anime that has many boring/simple backgrounds (FLCL comes to mind). ___ GENERAL INFORMATION FOR MY PONY LOCONS: My Pony testing was all done with pretty standard quality tags in the positive prompt, in the form of "primary trigger word, score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, source_anime," so I can guarantee that those work, but feel free to experiment! For checkpoints to combine with this Pony LoCon at 1.0 strength, I recommend starting with the following (which are in the "Recommended Resources" at the bottom of the page): 1) ColorburstXL (Pony), because it produces "faithful style" while still being more consistent and aesthetically pleasing than the base Pony model. Then, maybe try... 2) Luminaverse (Pony) will get you something more "modern" while still being quite faithful to the LoCon. 3) Reponygine (Pony) will get you something quite "modern and pleasant," while still retaining good core style features (like eyes and hair details) and character likenesses. 4) "Prototype" (Pony). I don't quite know how to describe the look yet, but it works well. 5) AnimeConfettiComrade (Pony), IF you want a MORE "literal" interpretation of the LoCon, while still being more consistent than the base Pony model. You CAN use this Pony LoCon with the base Pony model, but the style might be overpowering, and you may have to lower the LoCon's strength a fair bit below 1.0, and/or move the trigger word to the end of the positive prompt, and/or reduce the strength of (the trigger word:0.1) -- which are all the same ways that you'd adjust the strength with other checkpoints, of course. Adjust to your taste, always :) And, there are many more Pony-based checkpoints that I haven't even tried, so if you find one that works well with this LoCon, please let us all know! _Yes, my filenames are long. It's because I personally use LoRA filenames to quickly compare different versions of my LoRAs while testing things. I recommend renaming the file to your tastes! Though it would make sense to leave the primary trigger word in the filename, right? (It's up to you!) Yes, my Pony LoCons are extraordinarily large. But I made them for myself, and, to quote my genius friend, "it works for me and what I do." If you try these Pony LoCons, and you've made some SDXL style LoRAs/LoCons that you like, I would be happy to discuss training settings with you. __ No warranty, express or implied. I place no special restrictions on what you may do with these .safetensors files. Likewise, I am not responsible for anything that you do with them.

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