Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? was an American animated edutainment series that ran from 1994 to 1998. It was a spinoff of the 1985 edutainment video game series Carmen Sandiego . Everything about this series oozes 90s, with even its educational content managing to be extremely dated (both because of new discoveries, and geopolitical upheaval, but also having relatively weak scholarship that's very obvious in the easy research of the internet era). (Now that the same company owns both IPs, at least in animation, I wonder if we’ll ever get Inspector Gadget vs. Carmen Sandiego where Penny and Carmen try to out-do eachother in disguises.)
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Trigger: W_I_C_S
In data a lot: dark, night
Negative: Thick thighs (I don't know why this is needed)
Made with 104 screenshots I hastily tagged, relying mostly on auto-label beyond obvious corrections (mostly male vs. female) and images that barely got anything. The uploads appear to be from a broadcaster’s tape instead of masters, so I kept care to avoid obvious artifacts in screencapping. This show has a smaller human cast than you’d think (at least in the episodes uploaded) making it actually quite difficult to get non-Ivy, non-Zak, non-Carmen, non-Generic Henchman humans, even from nameless characters, leading to lots of generic background characters being in the dataset and a high number of no humans pics (27).
I saw that a Carmen Sandiego LoRA trained on this show had a nice inherent style. Since I’d already wanted to experiment with using primarily curated auto-labeled screenshots (instead of full handtagging) to make a style, was trying to narrow down just how many screenshots are needed for a style anyways, and a chunk of this series was officially free on YouTube I decided to give it a try. I don't think the results are as close as I'd like, but I do think it makes something nice regardless