Updated: Apr 4, 2025
base model
X1 - True Illustrious structure. XL, Pony, and Illustrious Loras all work.
Operates like a dmd2 model and must be self-refined with a highres pass or fed into another model. Not recommended for on-site generation. Meant to output batches at speed and refine promising outputs from there. Step count, prompting, and CFG are temperamental use the preview images as a usage guide and whichever turbo workflow desired, but the merge was tuned for dmd2 8-14 steps CFG 1 (no negative). There will be 6 fingers but there are methods and upscale size targets to keep anatomy well formed. Inpainting is always an option.
Next versions will be merged away but for now this is strictly a model eerily similar to what RealPony models looked like at first. It actually does Illustrious outputs much truer than other ones I've seen including noticeable influence from artist names. Not photoreal but with sdxl camera style and realism boosting loras it can be.
Continuation from my XLP models, but rebuilt on Illustrious with Pony in-weights barely left in. Same merge path but with better structure preserving as I figured out a very effective Weight transfer pattern that works well for illustrious. Pony score tags may work and help but only in certain prompt situations and mostly they will degrade quality. First outputs are canvas quality; blurry and undetailed.