A versatile and artistic Illustrious model merge family primarily based on ZU_KI's fantastic ZUKI anime ILL model. As always, this merge is tuned to my personal aesthetic preferences, and simply happens to give me the best (in my opinion) outputs from an Illustrious-based model architecture.
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Further recursive merging, and a small injection of Phased Merge Furry's version VII. More vibrant, more widely versatile, more creative.
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A very creative and stable model. I'm pretty picky which checkpoints I use and had a blast with this one. Nice work.
Which other checkpoints do you favour, may I ask?
GordonShock I tend to use Gembyte and Throwing Pasta models a lot.
Sexiam Much obliged for the recos, I'll give them a shot.✌️
GordonShock Illustrij, High On Juice, and Gembyte are a few of my favorites, if I'm not using one of my own merges. Vergard is another one I like.
I just rarely use anything besides my own merges, truth be told. They're my deliberate attempts to tune things to my personal preferences, and its rare I find a model I like more than one of my own. That's the fun part about doing custom merges, though; personalization.
AI_nstein Thank you mister, I'll look them up for sure, though I do use Vergard too. As well, your "Stein Custom" has been in my rotation lately, and has been good to me so far. I haven't posted any gen yet as I'm still greenish with SB, and testing things out. Thank you for generosity and hard work.
NOOOO! IT'S GONE, NOOOOO!
This one grew out to be one of my favourite ones for base poses. It won't listen very well to Controlnet/OpenPose though.
Hmm. Interesting. As this is a merge, rather than a base model, I'd imagine that the conflict comes from somewhere within the merged data, (and this many generations in, I'm not sure I could actually track down where), and since I don't exactly have the know-how to dive into the data, I'm not sure if that's something that can be fixed. If I had to guess, though, it's probably from V13 having a small injection from my adjacent SteinCustom model family - which is based on crossing Illustrious with Pony. I have a feeling that an older version of this model might not have the same problem, as a result.
Maybe I ought to try to base the next edition of this off an older version, if that's the case.
AI_nstein I do tend to... make things difficult as I keep adding multiple characters. Maybe that is what is causing it and I should test it with 1 character first. But I find it boring and want to do more interaction type of thing, I'll upload a few things I made the coming day. I really enjoy the results this model is giving. Especially combined with smoothbooster workflow and LoRA.
I'm not an expert on making these things, but ChatGP keeps saying Illustrous models often have a will of their own.
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