Umi AI: V0.2 Release - Specialized Species!

Hey there everyone! This post is here to announce the release of a major update for Umi AI! Today, I'll be talking about Specialized Species as well as Randomized Species, and the path Umi AI will be taking moving forward.

But first, an important announcement.

Umi AI is officially an extension for Automatic1111's WebUI! That means assuming you have made sure to update WebUI, you will have access to an Extension tab where you no longer need to Git Pull Umi AI in the future. Just load WebUI, go to Extensions, search for updates, and restart the UI!

Umi AI is of course a Github project, so you can also install it through the new URL tab as well!

https://github.com/Klokinator/UnivAICharGen.git

Now then, let's talk about the new update: Specialized Species!

Before I begin talking about Umi's new features, make sure you know what Umi is and why you should consider using it! And then, if you have not installed Umi yet, read this guide to learn how!

Since the initial release of Umi V0.1, the initial release, a lot has changed.

- Umi was originally launched as some files haphazardly thrown in Scripts, now they are an unofficial Extension for WebUI!
- There were originally only twelve basic art styles in the basic reference file, now there are well over 100, all heavily tested to ensure they look great!
- SFW Mode had a LOT of bugs and kept showing bare boobies, along with random penisia here and there. That has been rectified almost entirely, outside of random AI quackery. If you do generate something NSFW, please report it on the Umi Discord!
- Emotions have been overhauled! No more angry/crying girls in 2/3 images!
- Poses have been overhauled, but there is still a LOT of work to do here!
- And now, we have also added a crapload of 'species' that actually look good and unique instead of generic and basic, like in v0.1.
- Important clothing reworks, mainly for SFW purposes, but a MASSIVE rework will be coming in the next version. See the bottom of the post!
- v0.1 used a lot of default wildcards due to time restrictions, but I've been working hard on a bunch of important revamps for these. In particular, there will be a 'location rework' coming too that will allow for much more dynamic and scenic vistas in the background of character shots.

Individually, these reworks aren't the biggest, but much of the last two weeks has been spent HEAVILY testing the prompting engine to make sure what is generated looks good. Umi AI's number one goal is:

Generate as good looking of characters with dynamic locales using sensible poses and artstyles as reliably as possible!

Yes, by manually prompting, you can get much better looking characters more infrequently, or much more specific appearances. However, that approach doesn't work for a universal character randomizer.

As I said in the previous post, I made Umi AI because I want to be able to generate amazing looking characters of any number of fantastical fantasy and sci-fi species as possible. Due to the limitations of current AI, not all species are possible, but I plan to keep Umi AI updated as new advancements come out, and my years of experience developing a carefully curated fandom repository will aid me well in this regard.

But you're not here for a bunch of boring words. Let's finally take a look at all the things I've added!

In summary, I have added along with fully random human characters...

- 'Seraph' Angels, male and female, into the random species pool. These are angels who wear robes and holy garb.
- 'Cherub' Angels, male and female, into the random species pool. These are angels who wear divine crusader armor for slaying demons!
- SUPERIOR AUTOMATED COMBAT ANGELS. These are robotic (?) weapons of the Creator's divine will!
- Randomized Demon Girls with a huge variety of skin colors. Note: Wings and tails tend to break, so until AI tech improves, I won't be adding those. You can do so if you like in your prompts.
- Randomly generated catgirls, with extreme appearance, clothing, and scene variance.
- Specialized Species: Tiger Catgirls!
- Specialized Species: Leopard Catgirls!
- Specialized Species: Black Panther Catgirls!
- Specialized Species: Snow Panther Catgirls!
- Specialized Species: Lion Catgirls!
- Fairy Girls! These will be greatly expanded in the future.
- Dragon Girls Lite: More 'girl' than dragon.
- Dragon Girls Medium: Starting to be a lot more scaly.
- Dragon Girls Extreme: VERY scaley, though not in an 'anthro' sense.
- Dwarf Girls with a variety of scenes, outfits, and hairstyles.
- Vampire Mommies with ......... lots of personality.
- Blood soaked Vampiresses, they love your plasma lots.
- SMOL Vampiresses.
- Humanoid GOLEMS: Metal Type.
- Humanoid GOLEMS: Earth/Dirt/Rock Type.
- Humanoid GOLEMS: Forest/Vine Type.
- Humanoid GOLEMS: Molten/Lava Type.
- Humanoid GOLEMS: Oceanic/Aquatic Type.
- NSFW Water Nymph Girls. No preview will be shown on Patreon.
- NSFW Fire Elemental Girls. No preview will be shown on Patreon. However, these WERE based on a certain animation I happen to love...

Unfortunately, due to the AI's limitations, male characters do not tend to generate well. I will be adding them in a near-future update, but male characters often have oddly shaped faces, and I really want to focus on the Clothing Rework before I start adding males. Men require a lot more testing than women to make them look reliably good.

Species I will include in a future update include:
- Undead of the skeleton/zombie/etc varieties
- Necromancers
- Paladins
- Magical Girls
- Genies/Djinn
- Aliens of a LARGE variety
- Robots!
- Mecha!
- FAR far more... 

Adding these species takes time not only to prompt them out, but also to test them and make them look reliably GOOD or COOL or BADASS. This will be a process that takes weeks and months, not days! Subscribe if you want to support Umi and my ambitions of making the ultimate character generator!

Now, it's time to post the artwork!

We're going to go by the order of the list I posted in the previous section. Please enjoy! And remember, you can join the Umi Discord to see hundreds more examples I've posted in the relevant SFW channels. 95% of my efforts in 0.2 went to improving and adding content for SFW mode!

Species 1: Seraph Angels, female and male

Species 2: Cherub Angels, female and male

Species 3: SUPERIOR AUTOMATED COMBAT ANGELS

Species 4: Randomized Demon Girls!

Species 5: Randomly Generated Catgirls!

Species 6: Tiger Catgirls

Species 7: Leopard Catgirls

Species 8: Black Panther Catgirls

Species 9: Snow Panther Catgirls

Species 10: Lion Catgirls

Species 11: Fairy Girls

Species 12: Dragon Girls Lite

Species 13: Dragon Girls Medium

Species 14: Dragon Girls Extreme

Species 15: Dwarf Girls

Species 16: Vampire Mommies

Species 17: Bloody Vampiresses

Species 18: SMOL Vampiresses

Species 19: Humanoid GOLEMS: Metal Type

Species 20: Humanoid GOLEMS: Earth/Dirt/Rock Type (WIP)

Species 21: Humanoid GOLEMS: Forest/Vine Type

Species 22: Humanoid GOLEMS: Molten/Lava Type

Species 23: Humanoid GOLEMS: Oceanic/Aquatic Type

In general, these species took a lot of work to fine-tune, get looking reliably good, and still have plenty of cool, random attributes. I've only shared a tiny amount of the images I've generated these past two weeks (10,000 in total!) but already you should have a good idea of what the current version of Umi can do!

Now, let's talk about upcoming content!

There are a number of major revisions planned.

- More species! SO many more species.
- Art Style overhaul! At present, the 100+ Art Styles are all in one text file. However, I am going to create a quality tier system, where the ones that most reliably generate with the best results appear much more often, while the more variable ones will be less present, but still appear.
- CLOTHING OVERHAUL: At present, there are two ways to generate clothing:
1. One top piece, like a shirt/bra, and one bottom piece, like pants, shorts, skirt, underwear.
2. Whole-body style. 'Samurai Armor' or 'Medieval Armor' or 'Swimsuit,' for instance.

The clothing system is extremely rudimentary and basic. I will instead be switching to a 'theme' system with much more interesting options, including styles like:

Mythical Armor
Space-Age armor
Full Armor
Medium Armor
Light Armor
Sexy 'Armor' (Boobplate/etc)

Business Clothing (Suits etc)
Feminine National Clothing (Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc)
Masculine National Clothing (Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc)

Casual Clothing (T-shirt, shorts, etc)
Beach clothing
Bedroom clothing (Feminine)
Bedroom clothing (Masculine)

All of these styles are only a beginning point. I will also include plenty of randomized piecemeal options that make sense. This all takes time and effort to implement, so be sure to support me here on Patreon if you're excited to see Umi AI continue advancing character creation!

Thank you for visiting my post! I will be writing tutorials for inpainting, img2img, and other useful systems moving forward. And lastly, be sure to visit the Umi AI Discord if you have further questions!