DreamShaper
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<dreamshaper8>
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Dreamshaper 8 by Lykon is one of the most popular base models for illustrations and art. This update includes better support for character LoRAs, better photorealism, can still handle anime, and better NSFW
Creator notes
DreamShaper - V∞!
Please check out my other , including SDXL ones!
Check the version description below (bottom right) for more info and add a ❤️ to receive future updates.
Do you like what I do? Consider supporting me on 🅿️ to get exclusive tips and tutorials, or feel free to ☕
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For LCM read the version description.
Available on the following websites with GPU acceleration:
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New Negative Embedding for this: .
Message from the author
Hello hello, my fellow AI Art lovers. Version 8 just released. Did you like the cover with the ∞ symbol? This version holds a special meaning for me.
DreamShaper started as a model to have an alternative to MidJourney in the open source world. I didn't like how MJ was handled back when I started and how closed it was and still is, as well as the lack of freedom it gives to users compared to SD. Look at all the tools we have now from TIs to LoRA, from ControlNet to Latent Couple. We can do anything. The purpose of DreamShaper has always been to make "a better Stable Diffusion", a model capable of doing everything on its own, to weave dreams.
With SDXL (and, of course, DreamShaper XL 😉) just released, I think the "swiss knife" type of model is closer then ever. That model architecture is big and heavy enough to accomplish that the pretty easily. But what about all the resources built on top of SD1.5? Or all the users that don't have 10GB of vram? It might just be a bit too early to let go of DreamShaper.
Not before one. Last. Push.
And here it is, I hope you enjoy. And thank you for all the support you've given me in the recent months.
PS: the primary goal is still towards art and illustrations. Being good at everything comes second.
Suggested settings:
- I had CLIP skip 2 on some pics, the model works with that too.
- I have ENSD set to 31337, in case you need to reproduce some results, but it doesn't guarantee it.
- All of them had highres.fix or img2img at higher resolution. Some even have ADetailer. Careful with that tho, as it tends to make all faces look the same.
- I don't use "restore faces".
For old versions:
- Versions >4 require no LoRA for anime style. For version 3 I suggest to use one of these LoRA networks at 0.35 weight:
-- (the girls with glasses or if it says wanostyle)
-- (if it says mksk style)
-- (not used for any example but works great).
LCM
Being a distilled model it has lower quality compared to the base one. However it's MUCH faster and perfect for video and real time applications.
Use it with 5-15 steps, ~2 cfg. IT WORKS ONLY WITH LCM SAMPLER (as of December 2023, Auto1111 requires an external plugin for it).
Comparison with V7 LCM
NOTES
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Version 8 focuses on improving what V7 started. Might be harder to do photorealism compared to realism focused models, as it might be hard to do anime compared to anime focused models, but it can do both pretty well if you're skilled enough. Check the examples!
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Version 7 improves lora support, NSFW and realism. If you're interested in "absolute" realism, try .
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Version 6 adds more lora support and more style in general. It should also be better at generating directly at 1024 height (but be careful with it). 6.x are all improvements.
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Version 5 is the best at photorealism and has noise offset.
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Version 4 is much better with anime (can do them with no LoRA) and booru tags. IT might be harder to control if you're used to caption style, so you might still want to use version 3.31.
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V4 is also better with eyes at lower resolutions. Overall is like a "fix" of V3 and shouldn't be too much different.
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Results of version 3.32 "clip fix" will vary from the examples (produced on 3.31, which I personally prefer).
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I get no money from any generative service, but you can buy me a coffee.
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You should use 3.32 for mixing, so the clip error doesn't spread.
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Inpainting models are only for inpaint and outpaint, not txt2img or mixing.
Original v1 description:
After a lot of tests I'm finally releasing my mix model. This started as a model to make good portraits that do not look like cg or photos with heavy filters, but more like actual paintings. The result is a model capable of doing portraits like I wanted, but also great backgrounds and anime-style characters. Below you can find some suggestions, including LoRA networks to make anime style images.
I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do.
Official HF repository:
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DreamShaper Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
9,440°
This week
▼
0.5%
9,442° then, 9,440° now
This month
▼
2.0%
9,451° then, 9,440° now
Past year
▼
24.6%
9,575° then, 9,440° now
7,000°
Floor
The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.
+379°
Civitai downloads
1,083,161 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+3°
Torrent seeders
8 people keep serving the weights over torrents or hosted mirrors. Serving a file costs real bandwidth and says the weights are still wanted, so each seeder counts as 1,000 downloads in the download term.
+1,643°
AI Horde images
4,684,387 images the volunteer AI Horde has generated with this model. Each image counts as one download in the download term: usage weighs like a download.
+7°
Generation sites
20,237 downloads and generation runs of this model's copies on PixAI. Each run counts as one download, and their downloads count like Civitai's; all of it shares the download term.
+641°
Likes
18,679 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+226°
Adoption rate
About 1,026 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−609°
Age
−609° because the SD15 weights came out in 2022. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
Show detailed breakdown
Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 9,440°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.
- 1Start at the floor.Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.7,000°running total
- 2Add the downloads.5,795,785 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads, Torrent seeders, AI Horde images, Generation sites. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.+379° Civitai downloads+3° Torrent seeders+1,643° AI Horde images+7° Generation sites+2,032°9,032°running total
- 3Add the likes.18,679 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.+641°9,673°running total
- 4Add the adoption rate.About 1,026 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.+226°9,899°running total
- 5Bonus for a full model.A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.+150°10,049°running total
- 6Take off the age.The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.−609°9,440°running total
- =The heat score.Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.9,440°
Glossary: the terms used here
- Heat score
- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
- Adoption rate
- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
- Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
- AI Horde
- A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
- Generation sites
- Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
- OpenRouter tokens
- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
- The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
- LoRA and embedding
- Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
- Family and weights
- The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
- Trend
- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.
How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
Example renders
Prompts and settings shared by the people who made these renders on Civitai. Pick a render to see how it was made.
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
27
Guidance
4
Size
768x768
Clip skip
2
Weight used
1
Prompt
potato robot assembly line, massive lego-built factory where potatoes are peeled, mashed, and shaped into mechanical bots, steam-powered mash press, conveyor belts transporting skins, red-hot gravy pipes overhead, robotic arms assembling figures with carrot bolts and pea eyes, comically industrial atmosphere, factory floor in warm tones, blend of toy-scale proportions with large mechanical logic, humorous chaos, overhead view of organized food industry madness, contrast of soft ingredients and hard structure, playful absurdity, (M.A.S.H., Lego)
Negative prompt
nudity, plastic skin, anime eyes, human characters, muscle tone, semi-realistic bodies, smooth surfaces, shiny materials, over-rendered lighting, cinematic bloom, photorealism, detailed human anatomy, provocative themes, lens flares, sweat rendering, anatomical focus, hyperreal detail
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
27
Guidance
4
Size
768x768
Clip skip
2
Weight used
1
Prompt
lego trench filled with mashed potatoes, battlefield of food toys, little potato soldiers launching butter bombs, gravy rivers flowing through craters, lego tanks with scoop wheels, clouds shaped like steam, cinematic dusk lighting, bittersweet nostalgic tone, fusion of childhood imagination and wartime parody, absurd historical reenactment, potato skins as camouflage, blocky structures crumbling into creamy rubble, toy realism, (M.A.S.H., Lego)
Negative prompt
nudity, anime proportions, plastic aesthetic, shiny skin, exaggerated anatomy, emotional expression, dramatic shading, hypersexual elements, visible muscles, digital sheen, close-up realism, hyper-detail of skin, CGI smoothness, explicit focus, filmic glow
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
10
Guidance
1
Seed
1184656305
Size
512x768
Clip skip
2
Prompt
<lora:Calligraphy-ink-style-darquelilly-v1:1> calligraphyinkstyle, red color, circle shape, monk temple, top of mountain, snow, sun
Negative prompt
simultaneous,bad anatomy, low-res, (watermarks:1.2), username, paintings, sketches, (worst quality:2), (low quality:2), (normal quality:2),bad anatomy, low-res, animal tail, anime, yellow light, canvas frame, ((disfigured)), ((bad art)), ((deformed)),, wierd colors, blurry, (((duplicate))), ((morbid)), ((mutilated)), [out of frame], signature, watermarks,paintings in the background, thunder, thunderstorms
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
20
Guidance
7
Seed
455859946
Size
512x768
Clip skip
2
Prompt
beautiful colorful fantasy world with fairies and dragons, ((masterpiece)), ((best quality)), 8k, high texture resolution,
Negative prompt
worst quality, normal quality, low quality, blurry, blurred,jpeg artifacts,((monochrome)), ((grayscale)), error,poor effort,unsharp,bad composition, ugly from far away, ugly, lowres, signature, watermark, url, website, username, patreon username, writing, text, letters, logo, out of frame, grainy, noisy, draft,
Settings
Sampler
LCM
Steps
6
Guidance
1
Seed
268708332
Size
512x768
Clip skip
2
Prompt
white saber-tooth tiger, red eyes, albino, large canines
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M
Steps
30
Guidance
7
Seed
983521761
Size
512x768
Clip skip
2
Prompt
((masterpiece, best quality)), illustration, graphic novel, science fiction, horror, fantasy, portrait of an alien creature, galactic night sky background,
<lora:tbh295-:0.7> style of H.R. Giger,
<lora:XenomorphDNA:0.9> xenomorphdna,
Negative prompt
lowres,bad anatomy,bad hands,text,error,missing fingers,extra digit,fewer digits,cropped,worst quality,low quality,normal quality,jpeg artifacts,signature,watermark,username,blurry,nsfw,
No prompt was shared with this render.
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
15
Guidance
6.5
Seed
548949743
Size
512x768
Prompt
Astartes, silhouette, monochrome, greyscale, BREAK <lora:epi_noiseoffset2:0.65>, <lora:more_details:0.4>,
Negative prompt
BadDream, UnrealisticDream,
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