PieMix XL - Macaron Soft Pastel Anime Merge (Illustrious)

PieMix XL - Macaron Soft Pastel Anime Merge is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for a soft macaron color palette, gentle glow and a clean polished anime finish, while keeping the stable anatomy of the Illustrious ecosystem.

Recipe: 0.45 x Pie - Models (Raspberry) + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL (v17) + 0.25 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).

What you get:

• Soft macaron pastel palette and gentle glow from Pie Models

• - Stable composition and strong prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious

• - A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0

Great for sweet and cozy illustration, pastel character art, cafe and dessert scenes and any image that needs a soft, bright, candy-toned anime look. Add 'pastel, soft light, cute' for the strongest effect.

[Recommended settings] Sampler DPM++ 2M or Euler a, 28-32 steps, CFG 7, 832x1216. Danbooru-style tags work best. Use bf16 where possible - fp16 can soften output.

[License] CreativeML Open RAIL-M, inherited from the base models. Please credit the base models if you redistribute. Part of the merged-checkpoint series.