cutehamsterridleyV1_2615.safetensors Reviews

I love the cute hamsters but it is counter-intuitive as a SDXL based model since it doesn't work well at natively high resolutions like 1024x1024. At such resolutions, unless you get there with hires fix or some other trick, you will get multiple characters most of the time. This can be useful if you want to illustrate groups of hamsters, but you have to circumvent that limitation if you want to generate a single hamster.

If you use hires fix in latent mode with a high denoising value (0.7), most of the time you'll get some extra heads and limbs. That's rarely useful !

But it's easy to fix: if you start with a resolution near 512x512, and use an upsampler like ultrasharp and less denoising (0.42), you will get extremly cute hamsters (without any extra limbs !) that can be put in a variety of roles while maintaining a certain style that I happen to like a lot.

I would like to clarify the nature of this model: it is classified as SDXL but it behaves like if it was based on model 1.5 instead. It doesn't work with SDXL LoRAs, but it does work with LoRAs based on model 1.5. It also seems to have a base resolution of 512 x 512 rather than 1024 x 1024 like most SDXL models.

I would love to see an upgraded version with access to those higher resolutions typical of SDXL.