In general, SteinIllustrious has a bit more of a traditional, flat anime look, while Custom has more detail and texturing, and can better pull off 2.5D/3D styles.

Under the hood, SteinCustom is an experimental side branch of the Illustrious model with which I merged several models from the Pony architecture, so the internal data set is different. My plan was to keep the two separate, in case this also broke LORAs and such that only work on Illustrious, or Pony, models, but I have ended up doing a few subsequent cross-merges between the two for further experimentation. If you have a LORA that doesn't work, you may want to use an older version of SteinIllustrious.

As far as character designs, I am of the opinion that non-human characters are better rendered by SteinCustom, as well as it being better with lighting, shading, and textures.

I was the only one bidding on my own models to have them featured, and since they haven't been making back what the bids cost, I'd been shelling out of pocket to put them up; with the new payment changes on the site, I'm not currently able to top up on buzz to make a bid high enough to be featured. I presume that this will remain the case until a payment method I can use returns (to fund my own models again out of pocket) or enough people band together to bid them back onto the map, but it is what it is.

I'm not getting involved in crypto just to lose money featuring models. Hopefully a better solution arises soon, I mean, I didn't even mind taking a net 60% loss on my investment getting the models featured for folks to be able to enjoy them, I just don't have that ability right now. I do apologize.

This project began with Zu_ki's ZukiCute model, I forget which version, which has since been delisted from CivitAI, at least, I wasn't able to find it. Lacking that, I'm not sure what that model was originally based on, unfortunately.