I felt that posting the christmas posts is not the same as wishing everyone Merry Christmas, so consider this to be a little late congratulations.
I've made the original post in discord, let me just repeat it here:
I feel like the new year is the best day to have some conclusions for the passing year.
We had 223 numbered posts this year, I upgraded my pc (thank god I did this in time before the whole RAM thing.), and tried out doing animations locally.
Last year, in the same time, I still used my first illustrious model, and I will not lie if I say I liked it this much. It had good understanding of the prompt, but the texturing was... Ugh.
Current model is still fine, but slowly gets outdated - generally, the less loras you use - the better for the end result.
Animations - I'm still not completely sure about. It was cool to be able to do it in general, but from the other side - it's like climbing a mountain - but only on the top realize that you, in fact, climbed only half of it.
We also experienced quite a boom in video generation this year, didn't we? And yet, in a few years I still imagine all of us looking back to this time and realize that 2024-2025 was the video generation in its infancy.
OKAY WHATEVER, FUCK
Sorry, I got a little distracted. Let's get to the important part. I wish for all of you that your 2026 will be much better than 2025. Nothing but the best to you, everyone. Peace, prosperity and love. This day marks a full year of me working on Patreon - and I can't help but be curious and excited about what the next year will bring us. Hopefully I'll also finish my master's degree, but what happens next is a mystery. But what I can say for sure - I want this whole thing to continue. Sorry, the text ended up being a little weird. Love to everyone. Lots and lots of it.