ScreenMix XL is a three-way checkpoint merge built for the look of a paused TV anime frame: flat cel shading, crisp lineart, cinematic framing and natural screen-light color, while keeping the anatomy stability and prompt following of the Illustrious ecosystem.

Recipe: 0.45 x Screen-chanTV Merge Illustrious + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL v17 + 0.25 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).

What you get:

• Screencap / film-still composition: medium shots, off-center framing, believable set lighting

• - Clean two-tone cel shading with crisp contours instead of painterly gradients

• - Stable multi-character scenes and background art that reads like a broadcast episode

Great for anime storyboards, animatics, episode stills, key visuals and cinematic character shots. Add 'anime screencap, film still, cel shading' for the strongest effect; use 1216x832 for widescreen frames.

[Recommended settings] Sampler DPM++ 2M or Euler a, 28-32 steps, CFG 7, 832x1216 (1216x832 for wide shots). Danbooru-style tags work best. Use bf16 where possible - fp16 can soften output.

[License] CreativeML Open RAIL-M, inherited from the base models. Please credit the base models if you redistribute. Part of the merged-checkpoint series.