This LoRA was trained to generate images with professional VFX aesthetics — volumetric lighting, practical effects, lens artifacts, and cinematic color grading. Sourced from my own VFX reference library (~2,400 curated frames from personal compositing work and film breakdowns).

Parameter	Value
Base model	SDXL 1.0
LoRA rank	32
Training images	2,400
Resolution	1024x1024
Steps	3,000
Learning rate	1e-4
Optimizer	AdamW8bit
Trained on	RTX 4090, ~6 hours

Trigger Words

cinematic vfx — general cinematic VFX look
volumetric — enhanced volumetric lighting and fog
practical fx — practical effects aesthetic (pyro, dust, debris)
lens artifact — anamorphic flares, bokeh, chromatic aberration

Usage

ComfyUI

Load as a standard SDXL LoRA node. Recommended weight: 0.7–0.9.

Diffusers

python

from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline
import torch

pipe = StableDiffusionXLPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16
).to("cuda")

pipe.load_lora_weights("mainbrains/sdxl-vfx-cinematic-lora")

image = pipe(
    "cinematic vfx explosion, volumetric lighting, film grain, anamorphic lens flare",
    num_inference_steps=30,
    guidance_scale=7.5
).images[0]

Recommended Settings

Setting	Value
Sampler	DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps	25–35
CFG	6.5–8.0
LoRA weight	0.7–0.9
Resolution	1024x1024 or 1216x832

Limitations

Best results at 1024x1024 or standard SDXL resolutions
May oversaturate at LoRA weights above 1.0
Trained on English captions only

License

CreativeML OpenRAIL-M — same as SDXL base.