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Huge Festive Contest Running Now! New Video Gen Options, Festive Drops & Bonus Rewards, plus Civitai's Year in Review & More Inside!
Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the forty-seventh 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 & Generative AI developments, including…
Civitai’s Get Lit and Give Back 2: Festive Holiday Contest! 🎅
New Video Generation options! 🎞️
Festive Cosmetic Drops! 🎄
Holiday Bonus Buzz! ⚡
Site Changes! 🛠️
Civitai’s Year in Review! 📅
…and more!
Civitai Developments
1️⃣ Get Lit and Give Back 2!
Get ready to embrace the holiday spirit with our daily holiday-themed challenges running through December! Participate by entering challenges in the Challenges section, to earn festive lightbulbs on your garland in your team’s color. Each lightbulb earned brings you closer to unlocking badges and exclusive cosmetics. Complete at least 1 challenge by December 31st to receive a unique cosmetic that shows off your holiday cheer, with additional cosmetic unlocks the more you participate! It’s a fun way to engage, compete, and spread joy within the community - and there’s an additional benefit!
This year, we’re giving back with our "Get Lit and Give Back" initiative! Donate Yellow Buzz to your team’s Spirit Bank and light up your team’s garland brighter than ever. Buzz donated during the event will support All Hands and Hearts, a nonprofit organization focused on disaster relief. To double the impact, Civitai will match all purchased Buzz donations up to $5,000!
The team with the brightest garland at the end of December will win an exclusive animated badge and bragging rights, while contributing to a truly meaningful cause. Let’s make this holiday season one to remember for both our community and those in need!
It’s not too late to get started! Find out how to enter, here!
2️⃣ New Video Generation Options!
We’ve brought two new phenomenal video generation options to the site! The Generator now supports text and image-to-video for both Kling and Hailuo by MiniMax! Read on for more information!
3️⃣ Festive Cosmetic Drops & New Store Items!
This Holiday season, we’re spreading the joy with daily festive cosmetic drops until the end of the month! It’s the perfect way to get into the spirit and decorate your profile with some seasonal flair! Keep an eye on the Cosmetic Shop for new, limited edition, releases!
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4️⃣ Holiday Bonus Buzz! ⚡
We’re spreading some holiday cheer! From now until January 1st, anyone who purchases a Civitai membership - or already has one - will receive an extra 20% of their membership Buzz as Blue Buzz.
This is the perfect time to level up your membership and enjoy everything our platform has to offer. Whether you're a creator, cosmetic collector, or just love being part of the community, this bonus is our way of saying thanks for your support!
5️⃣ Quality of Life Changes!
We’ve been making a number of quality of life changes over the past couple of weeks, including;
The ability to set a custom thumbnail image for uploaded videos! Select from a range of pre-selected frames (first, last, middle), or upload your own thumbnail!
Better image visibility - we’ve adjusted cosmetic content frames and reaction positions to maximize image visibility; it’s all about the art, after all!
New video play/pause and volume controls.
And many more!
6️⃣ Civitai’s Year in Review!
2024 has been a phenomenal year of growth, and we’re immensely grateful for all of our supporters! We've prepared some stats to showcase what an incredible year it’s been and to highlight the milestones we’ve reached together. Here’s to continuing this amazing journey in 2025! ❤️
Total # of New Users: 2,947,659
Total # of New Creators: 242 thousand
Images Generated: 576 million
LoRAs Trained: 472 thousand
GPU minutes spent LoRA training: 40,291,695 (76.6 years!)
Resources Downloaded: 278 million
Total Data Downloaded (Resources): 194 Petabytes
Support Tickets Received: 13 thousand
Education Hub Views: 680 thousand
Twitch Total # of Hours Streamed: 257
Twitch Total # of Live Views: 1.86 million
Instagram New Followers: 15 thousand
YouTube New Subscribers: 17 thousand
YouTube Total # of Video Views: 1 million
Contests
Holiday Resource Contest
We’re running a festive LoRA Training Contest alongside our main holiday event! Submit your festive themed resources into the Contest Collection for a chance for them to be chosen as the next day’s Daily Festive Challenge Resource, and earn a bunch of Buzz, of course! Check out the rules for more information, and get your submissions in before the closing date of of January 1st, 2025, at 23:59 CST! |  |
Civitai Education
New & Updated Guides!
Guide to Video in the Civitai Generator - Updated!
We’ve updated our Guide to Video in the Civitai Generator to showcase our two exciting new Video Generation options, Kling and Hailuo by MiniMax! |  Image-to-video Generation with Kling |
Huge Lightricks LTXV Video Update!
Lightricks LTXV, the phenomenal lightweight (8-12gb VRAM!) text and image-to-video model has just received an update! Model 2b 0.9.1 manages to be almost 4 gigabytes smaller in size than the original, but boasting vastly improved motion! Check our Quickstart Guide to Lightricks LTXV to get started now! |  |
Whether you're just beginning your Generative AI Art 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
Resource Showcase
Christmas Critters - SD1.5 & SDXL LoRA
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From the Vault: Just in time for the holidays, we’re revisiting a hidden gem from Christmas 2023 - Christmas Critters by Ralfinger! A festive favorite that’s as weird as it is wonderful!
Ciri - The Witcher IV - Flux, Illustrious, & PonyXL LoRA
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Big Gaming News this week: CD PROJEKT RED unveiled the next installment in The Witcher saga at The Game Awards, sparking excitement and plenty of conversation! To celebrate, Civitai Creator JaneB has released three stunning models capturing Ciri’s bold new (and somewhat controversial) look! Check out JaneB’s Ciri for Flux, Illustrious and PonyXL!
Civitai in StatsCivitai stats covering the previous two weeks! |  |
New Users: 131,886
New Creators: 11,135
New Resources Published: 17.8 thousand
Resourced Downloaded: 16.9 million
Images Generated: 27.3 million
LoRAs Trained: 32.7 thousand
Support Tickets Resolved: 953
You may not be aware that Civitai is an Open-Source project, and you can - should you wish - review all of our 13,000+ 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.
Streaming Schedule
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 look forward to seeing you there!
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!