AniMuse Image Generation Guide

In this guide you will learn how to best use the image generation models from the AniMuse family.

You can also jump straight to the examples if that's your preferred way of learning.

Basic Prompt Structure

The AniMuse models are best prompted using a combination of tags and short natural language phrases.

Specifically, the models understand "Danbooru" and "E621" style tags.

The structure of the prompt should generally go from the most important and/or difficult aspect of the picture, to the least.

Here is an example template you may use:

<quality tags>,
<artist tag>,
<1girl/1boy/1other/female/male/...>,
<character tag>, <series tag>,
<character description>,
<composition description>,
<background description>,
<artstyle description>

Here is what that might look like in practice:

masterpiece, best quality,

male, nick wilde,

sly expression, sunglasses, aloha shirt,
golden necklace, smile, teeth,

half-length portrait,

standing, head up, looking up, hand above head, confident posture,

beach, palm, cityscape, night, planet, (large pink cloud behind)+, ambient butterfly, sunset,

vaporwave, subsurface scattering, detailed background, detailed foreground, depth of field, ambient silhouette, backlighting

Quality Tags

These aren't necessary, and in fact in many cases can limit the artistic range of the model. Nonetheless, very often, they can help.

Put these into your "Include" (positive prompt): masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality. You can also experiment with others, like very awa, newest.

Put these into your "Exclude" (negative prompt): bad quality, worst quality, worst detail, malformed. You can also experiment with others, like lowres.

If you want to apply save some time, go to "Styles & Effects" and pick "Masterpiece". It will add all the most important positive and negative tags to your prompt behind the scenes.

If you are looking to create a picture of some existing character, search for "Danbooru [character name]", e.g. "Danbooru Choso JJK". Open the relevant page (warning: may include NSFW), and then take note of the tag in the top left corner:

In this case the full tag for that character is choso_(jujutsu_kaisen), but we should change it to choso \(jujutsu kaisen\) for optimal results (replacing underscores with spaces and escaping the parentheses).

Artist Name Tags

You can find all of the available tags on Danbooru.

Some of the most popular artists with distinct style are:

itomugi-kun
sciamano240
blushyspicy
incase
gerph
nyantcha
tarakanovich
anato finnstark
ilya kuvshinov

Here is how you can find more artists relevant to your interests:

Go to the "Related Tags" page on Danbooru, looks for the concept you are interested in (e.g. "cyberpunk", "landscape", "one piece", etc.), and select category "Artist".
Browse the top artists and pick the one whose style you like the most!

You can see the effects of artist tags below.

More Tags

3D Look:

For more 3D feel, add blender \(software\), ray tracing, 3d, unreal engine (or some combination of these) into your positive prompt. Conversely, add them to the negative prompt if you want a flatter look.

Watermarks:

Add the following to your negative prompt: watermark, signature, text, possibly emphasizing some of the elements, like (watermark)++, signature, text.

Misc

4koma: Creates manga 4-panel style sheets
reference sheet: Generates character design sheets showing multiple views and details
sketch
official art

Finding More Tags:

(These are links to 3rd party websites that may have NSFW content)

General tags: Danbooru Tag Groups
- Visual Aesthetics Tags
- Background Tags
For anthropomorphic art: E621 Tag Index

Multiple Characters

Creating pictures with multiple characters tends to be trickier. Here is a template that tends to yield good results:

<quality tags>,
<short description of the image>,
<1girl/1boy/1other> <description of first character>,
<1girl/1boy/1other> <description of second character>,
<composition description>,
<background description>,
<artstyle description>

Run this example:

masterpiece, best quality, highres, very awa,

lara croft hugging roronoa zoro,

1girl, lara croft \(cosplay\), brown hair, dark skin,

(1boy)+, roronoa zoro \(cosplay\), green hair

If you want to have multiple characters of the same gender, you can use 2girl, 3boys.

Run this example:

masterpiece, best quality, highres, very awa,

uzumaki naruto, lara croft and nami sitting on the sofa,

2girls, (lara croft \(cosplay\))++, brown hair, dark skin, nami \(one piece\), orange hair,

(1boy)++, uzumaki naruto, blushing,

on couch

Pro Tip For Making Great Prompts Fast

Here's a cheat code for how to get your prompt started:

Find an image on Danbooru or E621.
Take all the tags from the image and turn them into your initial prompt.
Tweak as needed.

For example, if you have a Danbooru image with these tags:

You could turn it into this prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, highres,

1other,

golem \(elden ring\), torrent \(elden ring\), elden ring,

giant, horns, shield, shield on back, horseback riding, riding, from behind,

wide shot, negative space,

outdoors, scenery, grass, moss

90% of the time, this will give you a reasonable baseline for your image.