CakeMix XL - Flat Color Vivid Anime Merge is a three-way checkpoint merge in the Illustrious ecosystem.
Built around flat cel colors and confident bold lineart: large clean color fields, crisp edges and a sweet-but-not-muddy palette. Ideal for avatars, stickers, merch design and bright promo art. Push it with (flat colors:1.3), bold lineart.
Recipe: 0.45 x DreamCake Vaporal (Illustrious) + 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:
Stable anatomy and clean, readable lineart
- Coloring tuned for 平涂 results without extra tuning
- Reliable prompt following and clean LoRA stacking
[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.