About this bounty
It is a pleasure to host this bounty for three character LoRAs I would like the community to know better. You can find the models here:
Athene: https://civitai.com/models/2987029/athene-character-lora
Salomé: https://civitai.com/models/2986029/salome-character-lora
Kirana: https://civitai.com/models/2980373/kirana-character-lora
The goal of this event is to make Athene, Salomé, and Kirana better known, and to see how far each face holds once someone other than me is holding the prompt. I invite you to put one of them, or more than one of them, at the center of the picture. A scene the sample gallery has not already used will have the better chance.
I prefer a picture that tells a story to a simple still. Anyone who knows my earlier featured images knows that I like to work that way myself. Entries that do the same will have the better chance of placing.
Pro Tips for best results
Use the trigger for the woman you are rendering. Athene is athnblk. Salomé is salombx. Kirana is krnsea. On a single woman, a weight between 0.8 and 1.0 is the working range, and around 0.9 is a sensible start. You may lower that weight when you need to override a default of hers, such as hair, jewelry, or a detail the LoRA otherwise insists on. Too low, and the face becomes a stranger with a similar haircut.
Combining LoRAs is allowed, and it is one of the points of these models. You can put two or three of the women in the same image, each on her own body, and they will keep their identities if the weights are set with a little care. For two of them together I recommend 0.5 to 0.65 on each character LoRA. For all three in one frame, 0.5 on each. What does not work is stacking several different character LoRAs on the same person. Style LoRAs, painterly LoRAs, and other non-character LoRAs are welcome beside them. High resolution helps, and a careful upscale is recommended. It is not required.
If you put more than one of the women in a frame, please say which of the three the submission is for. If you do not, I will choose.
You are also welcome to post your works on the gallery of the LoRA page in addition to your entry here. This is not required, but I would be delighted to see them there. It helps the community find the woman more easily, and a picture that also adorns one of those galleries is the sort of work I may tip beyond the listed prizes.
The Theme
The theme is open. Change the pose, the clothes, the hair, the jewelry, and the thing she is doing, and let the frame carry a story rather than stop at a pose. Fantasy, science fiction, and cosplay are welcome. Photoreal, painterly, cartoon, 2.5D, manga, and anime are all allowed. Time in bed is welcome, and so is a light fetish, S/M, and bondage or shibari, provided the picture stays a picture. What I have to be able to do is recognize each woman, and see that the LoRA weight is doing that work.
What is not welcome is furry, a gender swap, or added male anatomy. These three stay women. I also do not want giant breasts. Keep natural proportions. Violence, gore, and amputee imagery are out. I have my limits, and those are among them.
Detailed Rules & TOS Compliance
Please read the following rules carefully. They keep the field fair, and they keep the bounty inside the Civitai Terms of Service.
You must use at least one of the three LoRAs above, Athene, Salomé, or Kirana, on a Krea 2 workflow.
On-site generation is allowed. Download and local generation are allowed.
Two or three of the women may share a frame, each with her own LoRA at the combined weights above. Do not apply more than one of these character LoRAs to the same person. Other LoRAs are welcome if each woman still reads as herself. If several of them share the image, name the woman the submission is for. If you do not, I will choose.
Metadata is not required. I would be glad to have it all the same, and I would especially like to see the workflows you used. That is how I pick up a trick I did not already know. If you can leave the checkpoint, each character LoRA and its weight, the other resources, the prompt, and the settings on the post, please do.
Quality matters. A top-quality upscale is recommended, especially where fine hair, jewelry, and skin detail would otherwise go soft. It is not mandatory.
All submissions must be new works created for this bounty. I will not accept a pure resubmission from another bounty or from an older gallery post. You may reuse an old prompt, as long as the render is fresh and uses the LoRA.
Only static images are allowed. Videos and animations are not part of this bounty.
You may submit a maximum of 20 images, one image per submission, so 20 submissions per person. Images uploaded only as examples will not be judged.
Ratings from PG through XXX are allowed. At XXX the sex stays aesthetic. Natural proportions only. Anything that would fail a plain reading of the Civitai Terms of Service is out, including real-person likeness, minors, schoolgirl styling, and ambiguous age. Furry, gender swap, violence, gore, and amputee imagery are out even when the rating itself would pass.
Did I mention that quality matters? A recognizable face in a picture that tells a story will beat a polished stranger.
Prizes & Rewards
I want each woman to have her own first place, and I want a few strong pictures from the open field to be paid as well. The total pool is 5,000 Yellow Buzz.
1st Place, Athene: 1,000 Yellow Buzz
1st Place, Salomé: 1,000 Yellow Buzz
1st Place, Kirana: 1,000 Yellow Buzz
2nd Place, open field: 750 Yellow Buzz
3rd Place, open field: 500 Yellow Buzz
Special prize, Athene: 250 Yellow Buzz
Special prize, Salomé: 250 Yellow Buzz
Special prize, Kirana: 250 Yellow Buzz
Placement is based on the individual images, not on the users. A participant can win more than one prize. The specials stack with the other rankings, so one image can take a place and a special. A frame with two or three of the women is judged for the woman you named. If you did not name her, I will choose. If the strongest picture of a woman is also the strongest picture in the field, it takes her first place, and second and third move to the next images that have not already won a first.
Each special goes to the most creative and innovative use of that model. It has to hit me like a blow before I will award it. A clever prompt on a generic pretty girl does not qualify.
I may also hand out further small tips, especially when a particularly fine picture also adorns the gallery of one of the three women.
Bounty Duration
Three weeks from the date of publication.
Final Words
I recommend spreading your submissions over the full three weeks instead of posting everything at once. This gives everyone the chance to see new ideas and challenge each other throughout the bounty. Please note that the exact closing time on the final day may be moved forward by a few hours if I already have clear winners by then.
I look forward to seeing the many ways you will use these three women, alone and together.
Best wishes,
Experimental_dAIver