Dragon Hero
Dragons hold special meanings to me. I was also born in the year of dragon, so I made some renders combining men and dragons last year. Coincidentally, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon. Although technically the Year of the Dragon doesn’t happen until February in 2024, I thought that I would post these anyway. I’m sure that I would’ve forgotten about these images in February.
I made these renders originally in July 2023. I actually really liked this set, but I never posted any of them because there were issues. @pigling.ai made a comment yesterday that he didn’t mind the issues — stating that it‘s just a reflection of the technology that we have right now. I like this angle, so I thought that I will just post them.
In many ways, he is correct. He compared today’s AI issues to the early days of digital photography, where the poor image quality had a unique charm. I purchased my first digital camera in 1998 and worked on several photography projects with it. Now, when I look back at those photos, I sometimes feel the urge to reshoot them with the modern cameras that I now use, but I also appreciate the beauty in the imperfections that are specific to that camera.
- Render: 2023-07-20
- Post-Process: 2023-09-06
- Published: 2024-01-03
Tech
Stable Diffusion txt2img with two control nets: reference only, shuffle.
Main
- Steps: 25
- Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras
- CFG scale: 6
- Seed: 4052033383
- Size: 512x512
- Model hash: f1de8faa49
- Model: virileFusion_v20
- VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.vae
- Version: a844a83
ADetailer
- ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt
- ADetailer prompt: handsome chinese face
- ADetailer confidence: 0.3
- ADetailer dilate/erode: 32
- ADetailer mask blur: 4
- ADetailer denoising strength: 0.4
- ADetailer inpaint only masked: True
- ADetailer inpaint padding: 32
- ADetailer version: 23.7.6
Hires Fix
- Hires upscale: 1.5
- Hires steps: 10
- Hires upscaler: 4x_foolhardy_Remacri
- Denoising strength: 0.7
- Hires Res: 1536x1536
Control Net: Reference Only
- ControlNet 0: reference_only
- Model: None
- Weight: 1
- Starting: 0
- Ending: 1
- Resize Mode: Crop and Resize
- Pixel Perfect: False
- Control Mode: ControlNet priority
- Size: 512
Control Net: Shuffle
- ControlNet 1: shuffle
- Model: control_v11e_sd15_shuffle
- Model Hash: 526bfdae
- Weight: 1
- Starting: 0
- Ending: 1
- Resize Mode: Crop and Resize
- Pixel Perfect: False
- Control Mode: ControlNet priority
- Size: 512
Post-Processing
- Upscale: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x
- Color: Adobe Lightroom
- Inpaint: Adobe Photoshop
- Final Res: 6144x6144
Dragon Series
- 2Fire Dragon: Ascendance
- 3Sacred Geometry
- 4Kiss of the Dragons