Aureframe IXL is my attempt at a fully open recipe merged Illustrious model. Aureframe is a pure anime biased checkpoint that blends the features and capabilities of a collection of models that I love.

What Tools are Used to Create Aureframe IXL?

The main tool used to blend the source models is Chattiori Model Merger. The final mix is then trimmed (removing EMA and residual training junk).

Merge Recipe

DARE merge Comtesse Raffinée - v1.0 (by Chumple) and Hyphoria [Illu & NAI] - v0.01 (by ecaj) at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_01
SIM merge Pohjolantaika - v1.3b by (Ongelmanratkoja), Squizoid - v3.0 (by giko) and Mixed_01 at 0.5 alpha and 0.5 beta = Mixed_02
FWM merge Mixed_01 and Mixed_02 at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_03
TD merge LunarCherryMix🍒 (Illustrious) - v2.4 (by A1kodesu), DanLiuWei Mix - v4.0 (by Julio912) and Mixed_03 at 0.75 alpha = Mixed_04
sAD merge Flac's Anime Mix [IL] - v4.0 (by FlacFerret), Mistoon_Anime - v1.0 Illustrious (by Inzaniak) and Anillustrious - V4 + VAE (by Jedas) at 0.5 alpha and cosine (keep structure) of Anillustrious - V4 + VAE = Mixed_05
sAD merge Flac's Anime Mix [IL] - v4.0, Mistoon_Anime - v1.0 Illustrious and Anillustrious - V4 + VAE at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_06
DARE merge Mixed_05 and Mixed_06 at 0.5 alpha and 0.3 beta = Mixed_07
XDARE merge Mixed_07 and Mixed_04 at 0.5 alpha, 0.25 beta and bake in VAE SDXL_Anime_VAE_Dec-only_B3 = Mixed_FINAL

Additional Info

CLIP skip: -2
VAE and CLIPs baked in
Practically all Schedulers and Samplers supported by Illustrious will work with Aureframe IXL
CFG: 3 to 6. Steps: 20 - 40. This is just a simple guideline, please experiment by all means
Works very well with DMD2 Speed Lora (CFG: 1 - 1.5, Steps 8 - 12; again feel free to experiment)

I think that's it. What are you waiting for? Go generate some cool images with Aureframe IXL and share it in the gallery!