[wwwtyro]

With consistent representation of characters, are we now on the precipice of a Cambrian explosion of manga/graphic novels/comics?

[Multicomp]

I sure hope so - at the very least I will use it for tabletop illustrations instead of having to describe a party's scenario result - I can give them a character-accurate image showing their success (or epic lack thereof).

[jowday]

It’s not really consistent - or anymore consistent than, say, SDXL with IP adapter. Even in their example images the character they’ve input comes out wearing different clothes.

[haccount]

I would say we already had one of those. There's more hand crafted human made content available than anyone cares to read.

While this will enable a certain degree of more spam it will more importantly, on the positive side of things, democratize the creative process to those who want to tell a story in images but lack the skill and resources to churn it out traditionally.

[fullstackwife]

not yet, still can't generate transparent images

[Vt71fcAqt7]

From the controlnet author:

Transparent Image Layer Diffusion using Latent Transparency

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17113

https://github.com/lllyasviel/sd-forge-layerdiffuse

[derefr]

Why do you need that? For manga specifically, generate in greyscale and convert luminance to alpha; then composite; then color.

Or, if you need solid regions that overlap and mask out other regions, then generate objects over a chroma-keyable flat background.