HomoAnimus

Animus = mind, soul, heart, feeling, animates (life-giving)

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About

This kind of artstyle is probably the one that I'm interested the least, because it reminds me too much of my childhood cartoons and animations so it felt weird to associate it with anything ????. but I was having so much fun making checkpoint models so I want to take a crack at it. However, it was a bigger challenge than I had anticipated. It was built on my previous models and merge it with a couple more 3D animation and Pixar-esque models. But there weren't many male-oriented models with this kind of artstyle, so I have to make do with the female ones. As a result, the ????? became a blob of flesh-looking thing. I manage to fix the problem and is pretty good now, but its still not 100% perfect..

My Settings

These are just some examples of the settings I usually use and it's not really a hard requirement so you're free to experiment and see which setting works best for you:

• Sampling Method: DPM++ 2M Karras or DPM++ 3M SDE Karras

• Sampling Steps: 25 - 50

• Hires. fix: On (optional)

• Upscaler: R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B or 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k

• Hires Steps: I usually put it at 0 so it'll be the same as Sampling Steps

• Denoising Strength: 0.3 - 0.35

• Upscale: 1.5 - 2

• CFG Scale: 5.5 - 8.5

Extra Tips

1. Try to keep the prompts short and concise. No need to fill up the prompts with unnecessary wording that does the same thing like high detail, ultra detail, absurdres, hires, photorealistic, hyperrealistic, etc.

2. Add '3D' and 'cartoon' into your prompts. It might not be necessary, but just in case the output turns out to be too realistic. Might as well include them in your prompts from the beginning.

3. ADetailer is optional. For close up shots it still looks fine without it, but for far away shots it is necessary. In fact I highly recommend it for all shots, it just makes the face looks better overall. Also, avoid using ????? ADetailer because it tend to mess up the surrounding area of the ????? especially the abs.

4. Hires fix is semi-optional. The overall output still looks ok without hires fix especially if you're using ADetailer to fix the face. But either way its still a good idea to use hires fix in general.

5. Use negative embeddings instead if writing paragraphs of words into the negative prompts. Here are some examples of the ones I usually use:

   • bad-hands-5

   • BadDream

   • FastNegativeV2

Credits

Models included in the merge are listed below. Credits to the original creators, go check them out:

• HA_v0

• HomoVeritas_v3

• RCNZ Cartoon 3D

• 3D animation Diffusion

• Virile Motion_v1

v2.0

What's new:

• Overall improvement in quality

• Slight increase in realism for textures

• Better ????? generation

• Better control over body type and size

• Rebuild with the latest HomoVeritas_v3 version