Krea2 Melancholy

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by zidius - Krea2 - Melancholy V2

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I'm excited to share the new Krea2 and Krea2 Turbo version of my Melancholy LoRA, bringing its signature aesthetic to a new model while staying true to the original style. This LoRA is designed to produce melancholic, cinematic imagery with a strong focus on realism, atmosphere, and emotional restraint. It emphasizes carefully composed scenes, subdued color palettes, and controlled cinematic lighting. The overall look aims for a grounded, highly realistic appearance, often featuring a very shallow depth of field and pronounced background blur, while still allowing images to feel contemplative and emotionally charged. Version 2.0 This update significantly improves the original release by addressing its early shortcomings while preserving the signature aesthetic and emotional atmosphere that define the style. Version 2.0 was refined to achieve more consistent results, improved image quality, and better overall stability when generating with Krea2 and Krea2 Turbo. Note: Film grain is an essential part of the Melancholy aesthetic. In Version 1.0, the grain was intentionally included during training. While this helped define the style, it also made it difficult for the model to reproduce clean, natural-looking grain consistently, sometimes resulting in uneven or artificial noise. For Version 2.0, the grain was deliberately removed from the training process to improve overall image quality and consistency. If you want to recreate the complete Melancholy look, I recommend adding film grain as a post-processing step. In ComfyUI, the "FilmGrain" node from the comfyui-post-processing-nodes pack works particularly well for this purpose. Recommendation: - Trigger word: zidiusArt - Create images directly at a resolution of around 1328 × 1944 px or higher. - Recommended LoRA strength: Start at 0.5 and adjust up to 2.0, depending on the desired effect. I'm very curious and excited to see what kind of images you will create with this LoRA ♥️♥️♥️

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8,028 downloads · 847 likes on Civitai

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Heat score since 10 Jul 2026

Heat score

8,865°

This week

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5.1%

8,854° then, 8,865° now

This month

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27.8%

8,812° then, 8,865° now

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n/a

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+1,191°

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8,028 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.

+439°

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847 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.

+135°

Adoption rate

About 61 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.

+100°

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+100° because this is a LoRA of a family this site is nudging forward right now. It is a bounded nudge inside the score and is listed here openly; it can never hide a model or outweigh a thousandfold difference in downloads.

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Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
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8,028 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
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8,191°
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Add the likes.
847 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
+439°
8,630°
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Add the adoption rate.
About 61 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.
+135°
8,765°
running total
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Family boost.
An open, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now.
+100°
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The heat score.
Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
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Floor: The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents: Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale: Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes: Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
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Measured and estimated: Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
Seeder: Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
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Generation sites: Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
OpenRouter tokens: A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
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Family boost: A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score: A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period): A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
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Typical model: The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.

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