Sarkaz Dancer from Arknights IS#3: Mizuki & Caerula Arbor

Sarkaz Dancer from Arknights IS#3: Mizuki & Caerula Arbor, trained from ~50 images, most of them are Koikatsu screenshots.

Trigger word: Sarkaz_Dancer

Tags (face): white hair, long hair, horns, pointy ears, red eyes, hair over eyes, eyes visible through hair

Tags (clothes): asymmetrical skirt, high heels, black dress, black gloves, elbow gloves, bodystocking, see-through cleavage
Tags (optional): demon tail, red tail (might be buggy)

Due to the dataset being mostly Koikatsu screenshots, there would be only simple backgrounds and likely very simple poses. Please improvise on the background as you go.

Personal note

After IS2, next is IS3 Sarkaz girl and… we run into our first problem. Source material, one picture, and this time it’s even worse. There’s only her portrait, we are missing a lot of details and now begin the guesswork. What are we fighting against in IS3? Seaborns. Iberia, which is supposed to be Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In her encounter node, description says “one of the dancers twirls and pirouettes to your side”. Pirouette is a ballet term, and good chance she might be a ballet dancer. What about her dress collar? Pantyhose or thighhighs? Yep, A LOT of guesswork, to the point it’s 90% up to your preference. I have to decide on one style. I did find some useful artworks, but most of them aren't that helpful.

I know jack shit about fashion. Since the IS2 Sarkaz girl looks somewhat young (Warfarin-ish) and IS4 Sarkaz lady is mommy material, IS3 Sarkaz girl should look like, well, just a regular lady. She has to be wearing a long party dress. It’s not your stereotypical short ballet dress, but she gotta be notably different from her younger sister. Something like this or like that. I settled with a long asymmetrical skirt, I’m not sure if you can even twirl dance in those but boy it looks good. Look closely at the ingame splash art, you can see she has a laced collar, detachable collar they call it. Looks like it’s laced too, so that’s a note. Should she wear any jewelry? I’d say one big red ruby on her chest. Black long gloves can be easily seen. Her shoulder is completely covered, so half a bodystocking, since a full body one would defeat the purpose of her long dress. Most arts I see people just giving her the usual thighhighs, which not just generic, but ultimately suck. Pantyhose, much more reasonable. How about just leaving it naked? That’s up to you. And lastly the usual black sock and… red high heels? It kinda makes sense since her tail is red, but at the same time it’s standing out too much and in a very unnecessary area. Default black heels that is. For the tail, yeah… I couldn’t find any tail attachments so far. Omitting it would be fine since adding it back in would be relatively easy for AI generation, but at the same time that same AI has a habit of deliberately messing up tails. There was one piece of clothing that got her collar correct but Alpha Mask didn’t work on it, so I edited its texture in MainTex. It worked, but at the same I’m having a hard time describing what she’s wearing.

Now we run into the second problem, there is literally no consistent training data. While the IS2 Sarkaz girl gets something like 70 arts, IS3 girl has barely anything resembling something to shove into the dataset. Like, at least the IS4 Sarkaz lady got some good shit going on, fan arts with full body and a closer look at what kind of outfit she wears. If I throw into the dataset all of Koikatsu arts, they will start to bake in too much details and you get to generate Koikatsu art style even when you don’t want to, unless you lower the LoRA strength. At the end, I ended up choosing only two pictures and fill the rest with Koikatsu screenshots. 

And with that, it’s done. Estimated total work time was 2 days, though it felt like a whole week since I just feel damn lazy. Huge thanks to this Pixiv post providing the hair rigging. If you happen to find me, you’re the man.

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