Fooocus simpler approach

Fooocus is an impressive AI program that revolutionizes the process of image generation. With its user-friendly interface, creating captivating images becomes a breeze. What sets Fooocus apart from its competitors like Automatic1111 and ComfyUI is its simplicity and efficiency. It offers a seamless experience to users, allowing them to effortlessly bring their artistic visions to life. With its remarkable capabilities, Fooocus has the potential to challenge the current leaders in the field and establish itself as the go-to choice for image generation.

Fooocus can even run on google colab

Here is an example of a picture generated with Fooocus

SDXL 1.0 in A1111

SDXL is out!

SDXL supported style

 style:comic book

style:Sticker

style:Neon Punk

style:Analog Film

style:Anime

style:Photographic

style:Cinematic

style:Isometric

SDXL prompt example

 

prompt:

Chaotic Mixed media Rebecca Romijn portrait art, Scratch art, Masterpiece

SDXL cute panda prompt

cute baby panda, detailed matte painting, deep color, fantastical, intricate detail,  complementary colors, fantasy concept art, 8k resolution, trending on Artstation

SDXL prompt example

 

prompt:beautiful ethereal landscape mountains, flower field illustration , by Ed Mell atmospheric and aesthetical , steps:46,  style:Sticker , width:1216 , height:832 , seed:1689221413

SDXL prompt example

 

prompt: standing female fighter wearing blue jacket, military camouflage pant, black combat boots, medium shot, art by stanley artgerm, style:comic book

SDXL prompt example

Prompt example:

Prompt: Cover, painting of a girl with long blue hair in a white t-shirt on one side of a tattooed cyberpunk space with details, luminism, strip lighting, complex, head and shoulders portrait, 4k concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, artgram, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha

SDXL Stable Diffusion discord

Playing with Stable diffusion discord and the new SDXL checkpoint model

Head over to discord.gg/stablediffusion

From there it is quite Easy to generate artwork using prompt /dream on one of the bots (there are 10 bots available) 

Following an AI prompt such as 'Graphic Illustration, Creative Design, white hair style undercut female, techwear, Cyberpunk, Full Body Portrait, Character Design, graffiti, style:comic book'

SDXL is pretty powerful

Animation industry is about to be upgraded

Graphic artists are impacted right now, but we can see how Hollywood is going to be heavily revolutionized by the AI generated tools available today

Who would have thought?

https://www.corridordigital.com

I see a lot of concern, especially from animators, that tools like this will eventually make them obsolete.
This isn't a replacement for someone that knows how to animate, nor someone who can draw. Tools constantly evolve, but making something visually captivating always requires those same core skills. It still takes an artist to make art. That hasn't changed.
What we figured out here is a very advanced form of old-fashioned rotoscoping. Animation takes a lot of forms; Traditional, 3d, stop-motion... They all have different strengths, and enable different stories. Our method here isn't a replacement, but an attempt at something new.
What excites me is that this tech makes it easier to bring my visual ideas to life. Ideas that were otherwise impossible. When I said this democratizes animation, I'm referring to the near-insurmountable mountain of work needed to make a full-length narrative animation. Currently that requires large studios and large budgets. Doing it on your own is nearly impossible.
But I see potential in these tools to change that! That's what I'm so excited about. Imagine one person, or a few friends, bringing their crazy ideas to life. Imagine if a traditional animator could automatically have their drawings inked and colored. Imagine eliminating the uncanny valley on cgi faces. These tools have the potential to do that. We're trying to figure out how, and sharing our journey. If we want community-controlled AI tools, we need to develop them as a community, otherwise they become proprietary tools locked behind a company.
And yes, this can be done with your own style. We trained our model, not from hundreds of artists, but from ONE film- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust.  We've been very open about this, and I think it's important to be. But this is also an experiment and a loving parody of this era of anime. I consider it no less ethical than the countless other videos on our channel that borrow from pop culture to tell their story.
Sudden change can be scary, especially if it feels like your passion or livelihood is on the line. But that's why we're out here exploring it. Hopefully we can help shine a light into the fog for everyone.
-Niko

How To Use LoRA and CivitAI

https://github.com/camenduru/stable-diffusion-webui-colab

https://linktr.ee/camenduru

ControlNET Stable Diffusion: Automatic Pose Transfer - Easy Guide

Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet

Getting started with Blue Willow

It is using discord.gg

and could compete with midjourney (also running on discord)

https://discord.com/invite/wEUGsNCvUs

https://www.bluewillow.ai

Once inside discord 

go to #rookie channels (select one of them)

use the prompt /imagine just like for midjourney

and wait for the result

This is the kind of result you can expect - with a minimal prompt (manga waifu)

Best spaces from huggingface

Stable Diffusion Demo

Stable Diffusion is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text.

• stabilityai-stable-diffusion.hf.space

Open source large scale replication of unCLIP, the DALL-E 2 technique by kakaobrain

• kakaobrain-karlo.hf.space

Demo for 22h Diffusion v0-1 Stable Diffusion model

• 22h-vintedois-diffusion-v0-1.hf.space 

Online Demo for Cyberpunk Anime Diffusion & DGSpitzer Art Diffusion & Guan Yu Diffusion. Based of the projects by anzorq and fffiloni

• dgspitzer-dgs-diffusion-space.hf.space

Demo for Marvel Whatif Diffusion Stable Diffusion model

• akhaliq-marvel-whatif-diffusion.hf.space

AI links

 - promptmuse.com

A very good website with lots of useful information for beginners

- civitai.com

repository of models

- Lexica.art

Browsing various artwork and seeing their prompts, very fun to navigate this website and learn the best prompts to generate attractive AI images.

- promptomania.com

Once you have a prompt, this website will assist the prompt with various tweaks, like style, lighting, etc ... 

- artbreeder.com

I would recommend this website for a quick introduction to generate AI artwork

using collage and a picture source or just a simple prompt

- midjourney.com with showcase/recent/

This website is a good suggestion, but not for starters ; as the way to generate artwork is via discord, and seems like a lot of extra steps compared to artbreeder or stable diffusion.

The midjourney generated artworks are gorgeous though

Stable diffusion video tutorial

First steps with AI learning

 Since AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all over the place right now, I started to look into that topic and found a few interesting websites.

First, AI is really a revolutionary step forward, why am I saying this?

Well, just look at the music, images that are now generated by a simple text prompt, this is insane, this technology is close to magic, really - it is advanced mathematics, but it feels like magic.

You say the word, and the picture appears in seconds, with visual that can be compared to the most talented artist creation. That is magic.

How does it work, in the background, I have tried to get into the basic of 'Stable Diffusion' (SD for short) and basically it comes to Machine learning, there is a very extensive data set of images, or collection of similar photos, that will be the starting point, then a model is made that is the part which is traditionally called the software, the algorithm, thanks to that part SD will be able to produce an artwork that looks like a painting, or in the style of a particular artist, or a visual style.

To summarize:

- Dataset, that will train the machine learning

- model, that will be interfaced with the program to produce a particular 'style' 

and then running the whole thing into a browser

The picture above is 'Black widow' using a style byMarvel Studio, quite decent result

Stable Diffusion