EasyControl Ghibli – An AI model for generating Ghibli-style images for free

What is EasyControl Ghibli?

EasyControl Ghibli is an AI model developed based on the EasyControl framework and has been launched on the Hugging Face platform. It specializes in transforming ordinary images into Ghibli-style images. Trained with only 100 photos of Asian faces and their corresponding Ghibli-style images, it can accurately capture the soft lighting, delicate emotions, and warm tones characteristic of Ghibli’s works while preserving the facial features of the subjects. Users can simply upload a photo or input a brief instruction to generate Ghibli-style images. The process is user-friendly, convenient, and completely free.

The main functions of EasyControl Ghibli

• Image Style Conversion: Convert ordinary photos into images with a Ghibli animation style. The Ghibli style is characterized by soft lighting, delicate emotional expression, and warm tones. This tool can accurately capture these features and generate artistic images for users.
• Preserve Facial Features: During the style conversion process, it can preserve the facial features of the characters well, ensuring that the generated images not only have a Ghibli style but also retain the main features of the original image.
• Free to Use: This tool is currently completely free. Users don’t need to pay anything.

The Technical Principle of EasyControl Ghibli

• Diffusion Model Architecture: EasyControl Ghibli is based on the diffusion model architecture, which generates images by progressively removing noise. Diffusion models have demonstrated outstanding performance in the field of image generation, capable of producing high-quality and diverse images.
• Condition Injection Module: The tool incorporates a Condition Injection LoRA Module, leveraging LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) technology to independently process and inject conditional signals into the model. By applying low-rank projection only to the conditional branch while keeping the weights of the text and noise branches unchanged, the module enables efficient injection of conditional signals. This allows the model to generate images that correspond to specific input conditions, such as particular style requirements.
• Training with Limited Data: Using only 100 real photos of Asian faces and their corresponding GPT-4o-generated Ghibli-style images for training, EasyControl Ghibli can accurately capture the soft lighting, delicate emotions, and warm tones characteristic of Ghibli’s works. This highlights the model’s strong learning ability on small datasets.
• Style Transfer and Feature Preservation: When transforming ordinary images into the Ghibli style, the model successfully applies Ghibli’s iconic style while preserving facial features effectively. This is achieved through the effective separation and fusion of style and content features during training.
• Efficiency: By employing the Position-Aware Training Paradigm and KV Cache technology, the model significantly reduces computational complexity and inference time. For instance, the Position-Aware Interpolation (PAI) technique enables the model to learn representations of arbitrary aspect ratios and multi-resolution inputs while optimizing computational efficiency.
• Flexibility: EasyControl Ghibli supports the injection of various conditional signals and can handle image generation tasks for different resolutions and aspect ratios. Users can input different types of conditions (e.g., pose maps, edge maps) based on specific needs, generating images that meet particular requirements.

Project address of EasyControl Ghibli

• HuggingFace Model Library: https://huggingface.co/spaces/jamesliu1217/EasyControl_Ghibli

Application Scenarios of EasyControl Ghibli

• Illustrations and Paintings: Artists and designers can use EasyControl Ghibli to quickly generate Ghibli-style illustration drafts or inspiration images.
• Animation Production: Animation studios can use the tool to quickly generate Ghibli-style character and scene designs, providing preliminary visual references for animation production and saving design time and costs.
• Advertising and Promotion: Advertising agencies can use the generated Ghibli-style images to capture the audience’s attention, adding artistic charm and appeal to advertising and promotional materials. This is particularly suitable for market promotion targeting younger audiences.
• Photo Style Conversion: Ordinary users can convert their photos into Ghibli-style images to experience the fun of creation.
• Social Media Sharing: Users can share the generated Ghibli-style images on social media to attract more attention and interaction.