Transform Your Photos into 3D Cartoon Characters with Stable Diffusion

today I want to show you how to convert photos into 3D cartoon characters using stable diffusion this way you'll have

some nice cartoon images for your social media maybe you're a designer seeking cartoon inspiration or in need of a

cartoon mascot for your site or marketing materials you'll need to download a

model called wild cart animation version 2 from the civit AI website click on the download button and save it in your

Forge folder look for the web UI folder then navigate to models and finally to stable diffusion save the downloaded

file in that folder as you can see I've already downloaded it after it's downloaded it may take a few minutes

since it's quite big you can find it in the stable diffusion checkpoint drop- down menu if it doesn't appear hit

refresh and then you can select that model this model is proficient at generating cartoon images for example if

I try to generate a cartoon cat I get something like this click on the imageo image Tab and then upload your own image

in my case it's a photo of a princess add a prompt that describes the image mentioning the objects you want to

appear such as the crown and the veil and then to ensure it becomes a cartoon add the text a professional 3D design of

a cartoon followed by the subject which can be a woman car building or anything else after that add extra Pixar art

style to achieve a nice clean 3D cartoon look for the negative you can find an example

on the model page copy that text without the quotes and paste it into the negative prompt area then scroll down to

the width and height settings and ensure they have a similar ratio to your uploaded image next focus on the Deno

strength start with 0.35 if you want the cartoon image to closely resemble your original photo and increase it up to 0.6

for a more distinct result click on generate and and you'll receive a cartoon image very similar to your

original if you increase the denoy strength to 0.5 you'll notice it has more power and creates a more different

version um further increasing it will will result in even bigger variations so adjust the slider until you achieve a

result you like keep in mind that some images are easier to convert into a cartoon version than others so

experiment with different prompts Deno strengths and images I'll remove the current image and upload a photo of a

dog instead for the prompt I'll adjust the first part to say a dog and replace

woman with dog after hitting generate we'll get a very similar cartoon version of the dog when dealing with animals I

like to increase the denoy strength a bit more around 0.45 to achieve a cool cartoon look with

big eyes and a nice 3D appearance you can generate the image a few times until you find one you like now let's convert

an object like a car this time I'll change the prompt to a white car despite the misspelling it will still work since

I want the objects to be even more exaggerated than the animals I'll use a Deno strength of 0.6 resulting in a

really cool 3D cartoon car um I'll try the next photo with a girl and remember to adapt The Prompt

accordingly to avoid mutations since people typically need a lower denoy strength compared to animals and objects

I'll adjust the strength for the girl to achieve a similar look you can even drag the results and use that as a starting

point to get a more cartoonish version while still resembling the original one nice feature is that you can adjust the

prompt to include more details for example I can make the girl Angry by adding angry to The Prompt or I can make

her cry let's increase the denoise to get an exaggerated version of that cartoon you

can have fun playing with emotions adding different colors objects and so on here's a quick example of a lion and

how I obtained a cartoon version of it you can also try with buildings however to achieve a truly cartoonish

version uh you'll need to increase the denoy strength but this may make it less similar to the original so it's a bit of

a compromise if it closely resembles the building it won't have uh the exaggerated features characteristic of a

cartoon you can also experiment with using control net uh some of you have asked for control net videos but I'm

still encountering errors when the image size is not divisible by 64 therefore I'm waiting for a fix

before creating a tutorial for control net it also works with plants and trees so you can get really creative with

images around you I'll quickly try another one for a man with a beard notice how I play

around with prompts and denoise strength experimentation is key to getting what you want try different seeds change the

prompt add different colors and lights usually cartoons are more colorful and have exaggerated features so make it fun

speaking of fun I took a photo of a measuring tool with my fingers to create a body-like shape um I use this prompt

for a cartoon robot with a denoy strength of 0.6 to make it more creative as you can see I can generate a few

times to get different toy robot ideas based on that simple image I mean how cool is that I mean only your

imagination is your limit I took a brush from the kitchen and turned it into a monster this tool could be really

helpful for concept artists to come up with new original ideas based on a random image if you want more control

over how things are generated you can do it like I do in Photoshop you can quickly paint the shapes and colors your

cartoon images should have for example here I used a hard transfer brush to quickly sketch the shape of a

monster head it took less than a minute to create a rough sketch squint your eyes and when you can see the basic

shapes you can copy that image and paste into stable diffusion here you just uh add a prompt that describes what you

want to create uh and with a denoy strength of 0.5 in my case you can generate a few versions to see what you

can come up with I just noticed the initial sketch was too small on the canvas so I enlarged it in Photoshop to

fit better then I pasted it back into stable uh stable diffusion and generated it again to get a nice quality cart Tune

monster yeah it's a unique design in Just 2 minutes I'll use the same technique to

create the YouTube thumbnail I hope I've given you some ideas on how you can approach cartoon creation if you found

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