Future Plans
Hello everybody,
I need to say, that I am abroad at the moment due to a funeral. I will hopefully back next week and will be then more active again.
But that should not be the topic for today, I have for you three big topics that will hopefully address the feedback from you.
Censorship on Patreon for specific Content
I think everyone is aware about the Drama of the last weeks with the StrongGirls Project.
The produced StrongGirls Comic on my Patreon was shutdown after 20 minutes due to the Cover Page and needed a Reupload.
Such things making me pretty nervous, because its very critical for my project. I need to do attractive Show Cases to promote my work. It´s not possible for me to do "Apple" Images.
For that reason I started to rebuild my Deviantart Page to have a similar Portfolio like on Patreon. It should be an Alternative, if something goes wrong with my Patreon Account.
Patreon and Deviantart will be treated on the same level. There is no need of action from your site.
The second thing is that over the years it became very difficult to find something specific on my Patreon. With that two reasons, I began to think about building a kind of Portal, where Comics, Models, Videos and Raccoon Studio Deployment (Local and Runpod) will become much easier. The access will be over a valid Deviantart or Patreon Sub. So we have the possibility to have one centralized Point to access the whole content. What do you think about this idea? A mindful Extension or Overkill?
New Features for the Raccoon Studio
The October Updates will be focused on following Implementations:
New First Class Model Support for Qwen 2.1 as Krea2 Alternative
Minimax H3 Features like Video Continuation and improved Workflow
Prompt Helper for Image Generation (Patreon Exclusive Feature)
More Optimizations for Graphic Cards with 8GB and 12GB VRAM
The last Point is very important for me. Most of the users haven´t big GPUs like 4090 or 5090 and the Pricing for Graphic Cards are over the top these days. Also Runpod is not affordable for some users. So there will be Optimizations to make newer and existing Models available for GPUs with less VRAM. There are always hard limitations, but I think a lot of improvement is possible at the current state. Unfortunately these Optimizations will be only available for Nvidia Setups.
So the plan will be that the Raccoon Studio will analyze the PC Setup and recommend you automatically the best Model Setup for you with an optimized Generation Flow!
Finetuned Models
The Portfolio for Muscle Loras and Finetuned Checkpoints is not complete today. Also older Aria Checkpoints for the SDXL Family need an overhaul after 1,5 years to push it to the limits.
The Releases will be planned for November and December and will be Subscription/Bundle Exclusive like the old ones.
Conclusion
There is a lot of new content that will come the next months. My Question is "Is this Roadmap in your mind?". For that reason I will make for my Patreons a Pulse Check in Form of Polls to have a better overview of the Situation.
Participate the Pulse Check Poll
As always I wish you a sunny week, leave a comment and join our Discord.
Your friendly Raccoon from the Neighborhood
Fino