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Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to Civitai Biweekly, your essential guide to all recent developments and updates within Civitai.

This week, we’ll cover some extremely exciting new Civitai & Generative AI developments, including…

• Estimate Your Civitai Creator Earnings! 🔮

• Illustrious V1.0 - and V1.1! 🎉

• Skip the Generation Queue! 🚀

• Game-Changing Features Sneak Peek! 😲

• Final call for Rendered Romance Submissions! 💔

• Project Odyssey Season 2 Winners Revealed! 🎞️

• Set Up Your Own Local Civitai! 🛠️

…and more!

1️⃣ Creator Earnings Estimator - How much could YOU be earning?

Big changes are coming to the Civitai Creator Program, and we know you’ve got one big question: What’s in it for me? Wonder no more! We’ve just launched the Creator Earnings Estimator - a powerful new tool that gives you a sneak peek at what your potential earnings might look like under the new system.

But here’s the deal - this is just an estimate. There are a lot of moving parts, and details to be decided. Actual payouts will depend on various factors! Still, if you’re curious about a ballpark number, now’s the time to check it out!

👉 Try the Earnings Estimator Now

2️⃣ Illustrious Excitement!

The wait is over - Illustrious 1.0 is here! Following the massive success of Illustrious 0.1, this next evolution pushes boundaries even further, delivering stunning generations with improved quality and a higher native resolution.

We know the launch hasn’t been without its bumps, but we appreciate the passion and patience from the community. Here’s what you need to know:

🔹 Early Access Now Live – For the next 30 days, Illustrious 1.0 is available for download with a Buzz fee. If you'd rather dive straight in, it’s also fully open for on-site generation!

🔹 Free Download Unlocks in 30 Days – Once the early access period ends, Illustrious 1.0 will be free for all.

🔹 Version 1.1 Coming Next Week – A refined V1.1 will drop soon, but will be limited to on-site generation only.

🔹 Training Access on the Way – We’re making some backend adjustments before unlocking training for Illustrious 1.0 - expect updates ASAP.

🔹 Optimized Generator Settings Incoming – To fully take advantage of the new higher native resolution, generator options will be adjusted soon.

3️⃣ Skip the Line with Generation Priority!

Tired of waiting for your gens? We hear you. That’s why we’ve introduced Generation Priority - your fast pass to quicker (image AND video) generations!

Here’s how it works:

🆓 Free Users – Use Buzz to jump the queue and get into the High Priority lane. Less waiting, more creating!

💎 Civitai Subscribers – Unlock the Highest Priority tier for blazing-fast generations! No more “pending” while your job waits for a GPU - the Highest Priority Tier has almost no backlog!

4️⃣ Coming Soon: Game-Changing New Features

We’re on the verge of dropping some outrageously exciting updates! These features are either in the final stages of development or receiving final tweaks in our QA testing lab.

Get ready for:

🔒 Private Generation – Civitai Subscribers will soon be able to test their LoRAs in peace, running generations privately without making them public. Perfect for fine-tuning before the big reveal!

🖼️ New Image Processing Tools – Background removal, upscaling, and detail enhancement in the Generator. More control, better quality, stunning results.

🎥 Hunyuan Video Generation & LoRA Training – That’s right, soon you’ll be able to generate videos and even train LoRAs for motion using Hunyuan. It’s a whole new world of AI creativity!

Rendered Romance Valentine’s Day Contest!

Project Odyssey - Season 2 Winners Announced!

New & Updated Guides!

Guide to Local Civitai Development!

It’s been a while since we first shared our vision for a Community Development Team, and we’re excited to finally take the next step! We’ve been hard at work improving the local dev environment, making it easier than ever for volunteer contributors to get involved. If you’ve got some coding skills and want to help shape the future of Civitai, this guide will walk you through setting up a local Civitai development instance!

Whether you're just beginning your Generative AI journey or you're already a seasoned pro, the Civitai Education Hub is your go-to destination for top-tier educational content - https://education.civitai.com 

Illustrious XL 1.0 - Full Release!

Onoma AI have blessed us with Illustrious 1.0, taking everything you loved about 0.1 and cranking it up to eleven - higher detail, better compositions, and a native resolution boost that makes your generations shine!

Hunyuan Special Effects Video - Video LoRA for Hunyuan Video

AugusWrath delivers one of the first SFX LoRAs for Hunyuan video, showcasing its flexibility and cinematic potential! A must-see for Hunyuan video creators!

• New Users: 168,081

• New Creators: 11,334

• New Resources Published: 16 thousand

• Resourced Downloaded: 8.9 million

• Images Generated: 22.9 million

• LoRAs Trained: 37 thousand

• Support Tickets Resolved: 831

Changelog

You may not be aware that Civitai is an Open-Source project, and you can - should you wish - review all of our 14,100+ commits on the Civitai Github!

For a more condensed and curated view, check out our Changelog! Updated regularly throughout the month with the most relevant major and minor changes, it’s the perfect way to stay informed on all the important updates and improvements happening week by week.

Visit the Civitai Changelog

Want to connect directly with the Civitai team, learn more about our platform, or gain insights from leading experts in Generative AI?

📅 Check out our Twitch streaming schedule and mark your calendar! In addition to our regularly scheduled Office Hours and AI Video streams, we have some thrilling, must-see events lined up that you won't want to miss!

We’re now streaming on all of our socials, and the Civitai.com homepage! Catch our streams on Twitch, YouTube, LinkedIn, and X!

Newsletter Buzz Reward

Thanks for sticking with us all the way to the end! Here’s your well-earned Newsletter Buzz ⚡(Yellow Buzz, too!) - consider it a ‘thank you’ for being a valued, informed, member of the Civitai community!