.....Cartoon Day is kinda back on for now. (Patreon)
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Just as I was about to give up I ended up retraining the models of:
Megara
Princess Jasmine
& and now just finished training on Ariel of The Little Mermaid so she will be made as well. EDIT: She works perfectly!, just added the image
All of my older models had one thing in common: they were smaller (55MB), whereas all of my newer models are larger.
After testing Megara and Jasmine, I realized that this could be the source of my style issues.
A larger model size allows it to retain more data; if you have a large dataset and a small model, the earlier images the model was trained on will be replaced by any newer images the model is trained on.
It also burns in the style more effectively when using a larger model and dataset.
This is most likely why I struggled so much with characters, in addition to Pony Diffusion's burned-in cartoon character style (which mostly resembled fan art).
So I suppose tomorrow will have some cartoon characters that I was able to create properly to be posted.
Please note, Jasmine didn't have a new dataset so her skin tone might change slightly but not as dramatically as I had before.