Hello everyone. A quick update regarding the UP story.
The story for chapter IV is complete, chapter V is in semi final state, still open for changes. All patrons and some cherry-picked helpers have access to it on discord in helpers channel (all patrons have access to this).
Or here:
▶️ Chapter IV
▶️ Chapter V
Feel free to leave comments, however beware It’s a massive spoiler!
As to the release, after more than 3000 rendered illustrations I couldn’t “make” something that would suit my vision. With the help of KrakinosAI I switched to the ComfyUI (node based interface for Stable Diffusion), which finally allowed me to create some good results. I wanted to fix things like too many fingers, poor upscale quality, deformed faces. But it was all a manual and uneventful process, which is now automated – for the most part.
Here are examples of some early tests:
With crude sketch I could make the condom face more believable and various:
Finally, I made progress in the chapter’s IV illustrations, with this being the one for the first page.
More updates soon!