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Civitai Profile Cosmetics, Smarter CivBot, Posts Enhancement, Legendary Landscapes Contest Winners, and more!
Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the thirty-first edition of Civitai Biweekly, your essential guide to all recent developments and updates within Civitai.
This week, we’ll cover some extremely exciting new Civitai developments including…
The Cosmetic Shop 🛒
CivBot - Now with brains! 🧠
Posts enhancement 📝
Gallery image pinning! 📌
The Winners of the Legendary Landscape Contest 🖌️
An upcoming Interview you won’t want to miss! 🎙️
…and more!
Civitai Developments
1️⃣ Civitai Profile Cosmetic Shop
The Civitai Cosmetic Shop is here to banish your Boring-Ass Profile syndrome! Spruce up your look with snazzy profile-card backgrounds, stylish avatar decorations, and rad badges — all purchasable with Buzz. Why blend in when you can stand out?
Content Frame Decorations, Exclusive Badges, Animated Profile Backgrounds, and more!
2️⃣ CivBot Recommendation Engine
We've supercharged CivBot! Like a modern-day Frankenstein, we've given trusty CivBot a brain upgrade, and he’s now standing by to recommend the perfect checkpoints and LoRAs from Civitai! Just chat naturally about what you’d like to make, and he’ll recommend resources based on rating, type, and their capabilities!
CivBot Resource Recommendation Engine in action!
3️⃣ Posts Update
We're paving the way for a multi-modal future with an update to our “Posts” interface, designed for easier editing of uploaded images and videos. Now, image metadata is just a click away. Additionally, you can select from a range of “tools”—the various programs and applications you use in content creation—to provide deeper insight into your creative process!
Adding additional context to an image upload
4️⃣ Pin images in Galleries!
Creators now have the power to highlight their favorite images posted to their Models with our new pinning feature in the Model Galleries. This update allows Creators to showcase images prominently at the top of a Model Gallery, ensuring that the best or most relevant creations are displayed first!
Contests
Our Legendary Landscapes contest ended on a high note, with over 8000 beautiful accepted submissions!
Mythical Nightscapes Winners
 1st - AbdallahAlswa80 |  2nd - Mayan007 |  3rd - MonsieurPAF |
Underwater Scenes Winners
 1st - Ricarte |  2nd - Zavy |  3rd - Engelstein |
Anime World Winners
 1st - Grymauch |  2nd - DeViLDoNia |  3rd - chaos_arg |
Apocalyptic Visions Winners
 1st - lilgianttoe911 |  2nd - mikezheng66 |  3rd - nemosenchou798 |
High Fantasy Realms Winners
 1st - okamuron |  2nd - piecewalk123481 |  3rd - rhult |
Congratulations to all winners, and a huge thank you to all who participated! Check out the rest of the Winning entries, here!
Guides & Tutorials
Guide to the Cosmetic Shop
Get your profile looking sharp with our Quickstart Guide to the Cosmetic Shop! This guide provides straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions on how to enhance your profile’s appearance and rid yourself of Boring-Ass Profile Syndrome once and for all!
Twitch News
Guest Interview with Pony Diffusion Creator, AstraliteHeart!
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, 14th March at 6 PM UTC for a truly memorable event! We’re thrilled to host Creator AstraliteHeart on a special Twitch stream dedicated to exploring the creative genius behind Pony Diffusion. During this live session, we’ll delve into what inspired him to create Pony Diffusion, discuss the groundbreaking features of this model, and uncover his ambitious goals for the future. Don’t miss it!
If you have a question you’d like addressed during the interview, or a particularly creative (safe for work!) Pony prompt you’d like showcased on-screen, please submit it here! We’re excited to include your contributions and highlight your ideas during this session! 📅 Looking to the future - we have some fantastic not-to-be-missed Guest Streams lined up, with experts from all fields of Generative AI joining us to share their knowledge! Check out the Twitch Guest Stream schedule now! |  |
Artist in Residence
Studio Update Five
🎨 Arvid revolutionizes character creation with 50 new ODDBIRDS, speeding up animation like never before!
🎭 Noah’s AI film ZERO draws massive actor interest with over 2000 applicants, igniting a groundbreaking crowdfunding campaign.
🚀 Shinji pioneers in tech design and seeks to revive the vintage Assembly language.
💬 Check out Domenec's recorded Twitch Q&A!
Resource Showcase
Fake Documentary LoRA for SD 1.5
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Make your own fake news, with Creator vjleoliu’s stunning Fake Documentary LoRA for SD 1.5! Aliens building the Great Pyramids, Lizard People in the corridors of power - now’s your chance to bring it all to life!
Nkbwdoodle LoRA for SDXL
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Explore the charming simplicity of hand-drawn doodles by Creator jhherren, featuring a striking black on white collection. Capture the essence of doodling; whimsical and spontaneous!
Thanks for sticking with us all the way to the end! Here’s your well-earned Newsletter Buzz ⚡ - consider it a ‘thank you’ for being a valued, informed, member of the Civitai community!
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