Reddit user's 'Anima' Lora breaks anime mold with raw AI generation

A Reddit user known as /u/shapic has posted about their experimental 'Anima' Lora (low-rank adaptation) for AI image generation, deliberately steering away from the common anime aesthetic. The user explains they grew tired of generating anime-style previews and wanted to explore a more natural look. Most of the images were produced as direct 1MP samples using the er_sde (Euler ancestral with SDE) sampler, deliberately left unrefined and raw to preserve authenticity. All prompts were kept extremely short, and the Lora was applied consistently across every image, though it has nothing to do with style—it appears to focus on character identity or subject consistency.

The results are described as 'rough at places' but with 'huge potential.' The user notes that bumping resolution and upscaling can increase fidelity, though they caution that using euler_a (Euler ancestral without SDE) for upscaling can make imagery 'too smooth' for this type of raw generation. One image, of the character Ganyu, turned out amusingly flawed, so the user manually fixed one hand and upscaled it using euler_a to avoid smudges introduced by er_sde in img2img mode. Overall, the post highlights a promising technique for creating character-specific Loras that don't force an anime style, while keeping computational costs low through short prompts and direct sampling.