The trend of transforming real people into cartoons has been a perennial favorite on social media platforms, continuously evolving to produce new variations. For instance, the recently discovered Flux LoRA, which I anticipate will soon become popular on Xiaohongshu.
This is the LoRA in question, which generates four real photos and overlays a corresponding cartoon character on top.
This effect is somewhat similar to the cotton doll trend that has been trending on Douyin, where real photos are combined with cartoon images in a single frame, and the cartoon character is outlined in white to highlight the contrast.
This trend has been gaining popularity on both Douyin and Xiaohongshu, often garnering tens of thousands of likes for a simple image with music.
Model address: https://huggingface.co/Shakker-Labs/FLUX.1-dev-LoRA-One-Click-Creative-Template
AIbase reviewed the official examples and found that the structure of the prompts is typically a description of the subject plus fixed words.
For example, in the case of the blonde boy, "A young man, gold hair, white T-shirt" is the subject description, and "The background is 4 real photos, and in the middle is a cartoon picture summarizing the real photos" is the fixed phrase. You only need to modify the subject part in front, keeping the rest unchanged.
If I want to create a pig, AIbase simply inputs "A pig" in front, keeping the following words unchanged, and then I can achieve this effect:
Of course, you can also provide more detailed descriptions of the subject's appearance. For example, AIbase created a girl with glasses:
Prompt: A girl with long curly hair, round big glasses, brown hair, and a small fragrance outfit. The background is 4 real photos, and in the middle is a cartoon picture summarizing the real photos.
A girl with long curly hair, wearing round big glasses, brown hair, with a background of 4 real photos, and in the middle is a cartoon picture summarizing the real photos.
Once you master this technique, you can create highly customized four-panel character stickers.
Feel free to give it a try if you're interested~