Older Description for v2 and v1 -

This checkpoint is made to retain most of the knowledge of base Illustrious/Noob while making everything as realistic as possible.

--Prompts have been attached to all of my gens--

I had one vision when I started working with Illustrious - creating a realistic merge that did not ruin the base model's extensive danbooru knowledge.

Prompts for the showcase images have been taken from all the best Illustrious model showcases and galleries. All showcase images for this model are one shots with random seeds and one hires fix. No Adetailers or inpainting has been used for those. In most cases, v2 feels way more real as the faces are much less anime-ish now. If you want the skin to be like v1, just use the suggested LoRA at 0.4 strength.

V1 has some problems with residual noise and general clarity. V2 should have more depth to its "realism", and should offer better compositions and quality in general as compared to the first version. Do try it out. (The first version can still be quite unique for "grainy" gens).

USAGE GUIDE:

Now, here's some tips for squeezing the most amount of realism from this checkpoint (these are just my observations, feel free to experiment):

• Make sure that you use lower values for your CFG (3-5). CFG 3 and karras works incredibly well for realism.

• Use DPM++ 2M with the "Beta" or "Karras" scheduler, and do a highres pass at 1.5x at 0.33 denoise and half the original steps. (Please experiment with different sampler and scheduler combinations if you can).

• Remove all instances of artist names and other "painted" styles from your prompts (unless they tend towards realism).

• For the positive prompts, include this in the first part (Kinda IMPORTANT):

  Optional - "cinematic lighting"

  real, 4K, RAW, photoreal, DSLR photo, real skin,

• For the negative prompts, maybe use this?

  cropped, lowres, worst quality, sketch, unfinished, greyscale, faded, low saturation, jpeg artifacts, watermark, text, anime, CGI, 2D

Online run on Tensor -

RUN ON TENSOR

(Generating onsite on Tensor gives the gens a grainy look (v1 only), making them even more real. Absolutely no idea why this happens.)

This model responds to prompts really well, and in a similar fashion to base Illustrious/NoobAI models. This also implies that you can use artist styles in your prompts for uncertain ways in which the realistic part gets affected.

v1 Related:

Now, some of you might not call this model very "realistic", but it certainly does have that 3D style that I really love. The end goal is always to achieve more realism, while making sure that the model's base knowledge is not disturbed.

There are other Illustrious based models that can provide you with more actual "realism" (debatable), but all of them have to sacrifice some of the model's incredible compositional and conceptual abilities. Some models lose character knowledge, some lose the character clothing knowledge, the dynamic compositions, the multi character abilities and much much more in search of truly realistic outputs.

And that is exactly what I hope to avoid with my merge, keeping almost everything in the model, while bringing the knowledge of the 3D world into it, and slowly increasing the realism.

If you want to support the creation of more models like this, or you just like what you see (I could REALLY use it): ko-fi (｡♥‿♥｡).

Also, no plan on charging early access for this one, so buzz donations are appreciated a lot too.

Models Merged (Credits and respects to the original authors of these models for allowing sharing merges) -

ReallyIllustrious (base) - TrueToLife_Fauxto

Alchemist Mix (Creative Realism) - Urameshi

babel-illustrious - BABELLA

coco-Illustrious-NoobAI-XL-Style - COCO_OIOI01

Illustrious_Sky-(rim) 3D - stableskynet171

Silence_Mix - sihotan

PornMaster-Pro 色情大师- Illustrious - iamddtla

CyberIllustrious | CyberRealistic - Cyberdelia

TAME Pony: The Authenticity MachinE (v2) - zyxt99565

IllustriousSat-Real - Sateluco

Quintessence (Magnum Opus) - Realism | The Delicate Balance | PDXL - Me

ReallyBigLust - Illustrious Realistic - Hikarias

Willy's Noob Realism - willywizard

Uncanny valley (v1 D) - meden