A follow-on to my earlier tutorials, using two Poser renders and an SD 1.5 model (in InvokeAI) as if it were a Photoshop filter — keeping everything in the Poser renders stable, but having SD change the style to something that regular comics readers wouldn’t laugh and jeer at.
Here the background stays stable because the 786x Firefly lineart-only render, being used in the Controlnet at 87%, now includes the background as well. This stops the background from getting ‘SD gloopy’. The figure outline can be masked in Photoshop, because it stays the same as a figure-only Poser render.
Quite a nice strong graphic style, I think, that would be suited to a four or five-panel comic-book page. Obviously you’d work it over a bit with the dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, and re-ink some bits. And you’d power up the lens choice, camera angles, figure expressions and suchlike. Maybe also experiment with lighting in Poser, since you can’t prompt for it in SD when used like this.
The SD 1.5 model Photon is meant for photography, but it’s an excellent early model that isn’t polluted by manga/anime and does what you tell it to. Unlike ADAM it doesn’t get in the way too much, when you push it towards a graphic illustration. The WASMoebius embedding is not really needed, strangely, but I left it in anyway as some may want to experiment with pushing it further. The problem with doing that, though, is that you’d lose panel-to-panel consistency in the comic, which is the whole point of this workflow.
Enjoy.
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