Liquid Rainbow
Foreword
So, around a week ago I started playing around with Illustrious. And coming from PonyV6, I fast learned that it can be a lot more “creative”. Yes, a PonyV6 models knows ponies better, but Illustrious, in my opinion, knows more “concepts”. As I do with new toys, I played around and found the effect mentioned in the title:
Resources
We need 3 things:
- An Illustrious model. I worked with this one. But I tested it with this one, too. Both work, for others you have to try yourself.
- The “Velvet’s Mythic Fantasy Styles” Lora in version 2 for illustrious. (This Lora add a detailed anime style. Any Lora adding could work, I like this one.)
- The “LeIsT0 | Shiiro’s Styles” Lora. (This one helps making the colors “pop”.)
The Prompt
The prompt for the Twilight picture looked something like this:
QUALITY WORDS, 1pony, my little pony, pony, feral pony, unicorn, Twilight Sparkle, casting magic at viewer, shiny fur, limited palette, (glow, liquid glowing magic, glowing liquid purple magic)++, intense expression, dramatic lighting, strong depth of field, wind-blown hair, gritty realism, cinematic shot, dutch angle, (simple background, black background)++, dust particles, dynamic pose, dynamic composition, foreshortening, blurry edges, MORE QUALITY WORDSSome may be confused about the “++” signs. I work with Invoke, which takes “-” and “+” signs as weights. A “++” is around 1.2. So if you use a different UI, you will have to try around a little. The important parts are
simple background, black background for the mat black background to play with. If I lowered the weights, the loras added stuff into it.The effect itself is achieved with
limited palette, dramatic lighting, glow, liquid glowing magic, glowing liquid purple magic. Limited palette makes the AI use as few colors as possible, what is then overridden by the “purple magic” part with a higher weight. Muting any other color beside the one mentioned. If you replace “purple” with “rainbow”, you get the colors of the rainbow. Easy.Now the lora weights. I used both with good results at 0.8. The trigger words are not in the prompt since Invoke has its own way to add loras that doesn’t need them. If you add a lora, it gets activated, that’s it. You find the trigger words on the civitai page.
I used Euler A at 25 steps with a CFG around 7 for all the pictures here.
That should be it, really. Have fun!
Important
The more in detail you describe the character in the prompt, the more detail gets added, and with that: color. If you want good “shade play” be as brief as possible. (That’s why it works better with known characters since you only have to add there name most of the time.)
More Examples
A few more raw examples:
Side Note
If you use the Fantasy Lora at 0.8-1.0 and the “LeIsT0” Lora at 1, with ‘limited palette’ and no rainbow liquid you get this comic looking style:
If you use the Fantasy Lora at 0.8-1.0 and the “LeIsT0” Lora at 1, with ‘limited palette’ and no rainbow liquid you get this comic looking style:
