Overview

The goal of this LoRA for Flux.1 is to capture the style of Cartoon Saloon, a talented animation studio from Ireland, well-known for its unique artistic style and storytelling. Their work is all about hand-drawn 2D animation with a lovely, painterly touch, heavily influenced by Irish folklore and mythology. You'll often see richly detailed backgrounds inspired by Celtic art and design, and their stories have a way of blending the fantastical with deep emotional themes. They've a knack for weaving in messages about preserving the environment and culture, with characters that might look simple but are full of expression. Some of Cartoon Saloon's best-known films include "The Secret of Kells", "Song of the Sea" and "Wolfwalkers". These films are cherished for their stunning visuals, cultural richness, and the way they connect with both young and old. In a world full of 3D computer animation, Cartoon Saloon's style stands out for its hands-on, traditional approach, giving their work a timeless and innovative feel.

Usage

All title images were generated with the following recommended parameters:

Prompts: started with "In style of Cartoon Saloon."
Model: flux1-dev (fp8e4m3fn)
Text Encoder: t5pxxl_fp16
Sampler: euler
Scheduler: 24 steps (simple)
Flux Guidance: 4
LoRA Strength: 1

Training

LoRA was created with the ostris/ai-toolkit on a single RTX 3090. Total number of images used for fine-tuning: 533. All images were captioned with Joy Caption Pre Alpha, captions were prefixed with "In style of Cartoon Saloon. " string. Specific heroes or individual film titles were not tagged. Training hyperparameters:

Rank/alpha: 16/16
Batch Size: 1
Steps: 7000
Learning Rate: 1e-4
Optimizer: adamw8bit