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Description

"Those who survive armed conflict, are often rewarded with the struggle of reintegration into society."

Armadillo girl and veteran of the Argentinian Campaign, Dakota "Sandspark" Sparkwell returning to her cheap government housing after another thankless day of shipbreaking, but a job's a job and hardly anybody's hiring cybernetic amputees these days...

Background

The "After" gen of a two-part "Before & After" concept about how even though "war never changes", it does change you.

Spent 214 raw bases on exploring in a new style, before arriving at a gen that resonated enough with me to want and take it all the way through production.

Base Gen Settings

Generated through ComfyUI running checkpoint HassakuXL 3.2, and used "Euler A CFG++" Sampler with guidance set to 1.5, because it's over tuned and temperamental by design.

Scheduler was SGM Uniform running for 26 Steps.

Prompts

Positive

masterpiece, best quality, vibrant lighting, saturated colors,

((furry)), (light_brown scales), ((armadillo girl)), flat chest, messy hair, brown hair, tan highlights, (dreadlocks:1.2), high ponytail, solo, blue eyes, big eyes, thick thighs, barcode cheek tattoo, 

welding goggles, oversized clothing, utility belt, storage pouches, blonde highlights, neon trim, gaming headset, dog tags, cargo pants, 

large_robo_arms, robotic arms, large robotic arms,

life vest, high collar, cyberpunk clothes, neon, open jacket, life jacket, midriff, tactical shirt, knee pads, 

dirty, smudges,

cyberpunk city, night,

walking towards viewer, half-closed eyes, furrowed eyebrows, looking away, contemplating, smoking cigarette, hand in own hair, 

from above, dutch angle,

Negative

light particles, bad quality, worst quality, lowres, jpeg artifacts,empty eyes, no pupils, signature, watermark, username, sign, artist name, vector art, bad_fingers, wrong hand,
Pipeline

Followed my typical process of

  • Gen Raw Base in Comfy
  • Clean up in Photoshop
  • Upscale in Comfy
  • Clean up in Photoshop
  • Inpaint in Comfy
  • Clean up in Photoshop
  • Color Grade in Lightroom
LoRa's and Final Tally

"Large Robotic Arms [Illustrious]" did its job amazingly, while "Stabilizer IL/NAI/CK" supplied lots of greebles (and tons of unwanted light motes to remove later), and "Dramatic Lighting Slider" made the scene nice and broody.

Time spent overall was around 14 hours; with 214 raw bases, 3 upscales, and 75 inpaints generated along the way.

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