Hybrids - Barely Human

This is a character style concept I've been working on for a while now. While I do love furry/anthro characters, something about the semi-anthro, mostly human hybrid characters is interesting to me, so I wanted to create my own characters in this way.

So, this lora is meant to create humanoid characters with some animal features, while still keeping a more human-like face and skin tones.

Tips for Prompting -

Face: By default it should give a more human-like face, but adding more animal facial features will of course push it more toward traditional anthros (nose, teeth, face fur, etc.). In the same sense adding "human face" to the prompt helps ensure the face is human-like, in case you run into any issues.

The main tag for getting an animal-like nose/snout is just "animal nose", though using a specific species instead of "animal" ("fox nose", "cat nose", etc.) will give you varying results, just based on how much previous knowledge your chosen base model (and other loras) have on that species type.

Ears: Similar to face, the ears will mostly show as human, or pointed, unless you specifically prompt for animal ears.

The main tag for more animal-like ears is just "animal ears", this will usually remove human ears and will tend to adopt the species from any other tags ("animal ears, cat tail" in your prompt will usually give more cat-like ears). You can of course specify the species type here too, "fox ears", "rabbit ears", etc. If you do get human ears along with animal ears, usually just increasing the weight of the "animal ears" tag will work to remove them, you can also try adding "human ears" to the negative.

Fur/Skin: It will likely default to any specific skin tone you have in the prompt (specific skin tones weren't trained with this lora, so it'll rely on your base model and other loras). Adding " arms" and " legs" will change the arms and legs to the specified color, similarly you can use " arm fur" and " leg fur" ("fur" can also be replaced with "feathers" or "scales").

If you just use " fur" without specifying arms or legs, it will usually make the majority of the body that color of fur (the fox lady sample image does this), though sometimes the fur can spread even when you don't prompt it, adding "body fur" or "chest fur" to the negatives can help remove this.

Using "gradient skin" or "gradient fur" helps blend the colors and skin better, otherwise you may get cutoff lines where the different colors/types meet.

Tail/Hands/Feet: Pretty much works the same as with any base model, just add the specific type your prompt (so long as the base models and other loras have data for them), I didn't add too much here so it's just all common types.

Notes:

This model does tend to lean toward females and more feminine males, I'll try to fix this in a future version, but using this alongside other male based models should help in the mean time.

It needs more training with multiple characters in future versions. This model can do okay with multiple characters, there is just a lot of prompt bleed between them, and it tends to lose some of the human-like traits.

Most of the images I used for training are freely available on my DeviantArt, part of the set is in this collection, https://www.deviantart.com/zabadugremlin/art/Barely-Human-The-Menagerie-AI-1242102809 as well as the other "Barely Human" image sets I've posted there.

This model was trained using the Illustrious-XL v2.0 checkpoint.

All generations are made using WAI-NSFW-illustrious-SDXL v15 and Fooocus, and upscaled to 2048x2048.

All of my models may be used for your own training and/or merges.