THRILLustrious

By pAInCREAT0R

Putting the realistic thrill into Illustrious

This is a Beta release of a realism based Illustrious model. I had the training images set up from completing Ride_My_PONY_Real, so I decided to do some training runs on Illustrious. I have not refined this as much as I normally do before release, so I am marking it a Beta release. If I get enough positive response, then I may finish it.

You will get some ugly faces or messed up anatomy!! Please keep in mind as you go to review that this is a work in progress. I am just trying to see if there is even enough interest to finish it.

I am not great at prompting Illustrious models yet. I spend more time in FLUX and PONY. But I thought the early results were worth sharing. Hope you enjoy. If you want this one to keep being trained, give it a like or leave a comment. (I don't need your buzz!!)

I have been using Euler A, SGMUniform, 40 steps, 2-5CFG. However, I have not experimented with it enough to say that is optimal. Benefits from Hires fix and/or Adetailer since not fully baked.

How it was made:

All training was done in Kohya starting with the Illustrious base model. No text encoder training at all - only UNET. With the recent Kohya updates, you can do higher batch and gradient sizes at faster speeds than ever. So on my 4090 I could batch 5 or 6, gradient 5 or 6 to get a virtual batch size of 25-36. This made it much faster to train than in the past. (Honestly, this was the only reason I attempted it after finishing PONY model.) There was some DareMerge of a small amount of my FULLY_REAL_EXTREME model and Redcraft Illustrious model to smooth out aesthetics and add a little more flare. About half the training was done at 1024 and half at 512. It could use another pass at higher resolution to help the faces. I preserved the clip from Illustrious 100% though and did not train encoders at all. (I figured I would mess it up.)

Disclaimer: This model is provided for educational purposes and for the advancement of AI art in general. The creator of this checkpoint assumes no responsibility or liability for the end user's outputs. Any illegal, unethical, or deep fake use of this model is the sole responsibility of the user engaged in those activities. The end user assumes all liabilities from use of the checkpoint.

No permissions are given for anyone to distribute this model on other sites. I do not give permission for it to be used on any image generation service other than CIVITAI.