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    Velvet Pony - RA2+VAE
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    Velvet - a type of fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel.

    - Wiki

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    about versions:

    v1 - In between of photography and artwork feel. Think over-photoshoped stock photos. Focused on looking nice.

    RAW - Finetuned for a slight push into realism. More analog feel.

    RA2 - More details, more contrast, more creativity. Possibly less realism.

    suggestions:
    scheduler: DPM++ 2M SDE
    steps: 20-40
    CFG: 4-6 for

    avoid too much tokens in negative prompt

    avoid loras (most will impose their own style, even if style is not the subject of given lora)

    Description

    Same as RA2, but VAE is baked.

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    Comments (2)

    obinna7713Feb 28, 2025
    CivitAI

    this model is pretty great, can you merge this model with some anime model to improve on its lora combability with anime characters. a similar model was great at bring anime models to realistic effect.

    https://civitai.com/models/918430/spicypizza?modelVersionId=1027981

    Stardeaf
    Author
    Mar 1, 2025

    I don't think it would work. My experience is that loras only work well with checkpoints they were trained on. Pony models in particular tend to differ a lot. So most likely effect of such merging would be losing realism and loras still wouldn't work too well. Or maybe it's just away of my capabilities. I have this merge named Rogue Pony, which is much more open for anime input, though not as much photorealistic feel (you can push it there, but a lot of prompt work is required).

    Checkpoint
    Pony

    Details

    Downloads
    244
    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    1/15/2025
    Updated
    4/30/2026
    Deleted
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    Files

    velvetPony_ra2VAE.safetensors

    Mirrors

    Huggingface (1 mirrors)

    Available On (1 platform)

    Same model published on other platforms. May have additional downloads or version variants.