Melange

If you like this model, you'll probably like the XLTurbo follow-up, Ultraspice.

If you want to get started making cool gifs, efastcurex has written a guide here. Morpheus1111 has also written a great guide with follow up here. Some of my recents gifs are upscaled with ComfyUI or AutoChar. Check out my profile to see more.

Melange is a merge that started from DucHaiten-StyleLikeMe. I wanted to preserve some of the amazing style and excellent flexibilty while making it more consistent and (subjectively) more beautiful. I mixed in a little bit of everything; endlessReality, Perfect World, majicMix, and a few others.

As with any model, experimentation is key to producing the most beautiful pics and gifs. I'm still learning new things every day to make better looking images so I'm not comfortable writing a tutorial about it just yet. I can say confidently that Melange is an excellent checkpoint on which to try new techniques and LoRAs. It does require a certain amount of experience in SD1.5 to use well so if you're just starting out it might not be the right model for you.